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For many years science educators in Kenyan secondary schools hoped that the use of science apparatus supplied by Science Equipment Production unit (SEPU) would substantially help teachers to provide students with efficient and effective opportunities to learn science, products, and processes. But this has not improved students‟ performances in examinations. Research findings from developed countries have pointed out the capabilities of computers to improve students‟ scientific knowledge....
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Primary Education globally is described as the prime or foundation of other levels of education. It serves as the springboard on which subsequent education of every child takes off; hence its relevance cannot be under estimated. The primary school teachers are expected to teach the entire subjects, including Social Studies. Social studies is a curriculum innovation designed to inculcate citizenship education, positive values, attitudes, skills and knowledge in the learners starting from...
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Providing quality Technical education and training has for a long time been an area of concern for most African countries, given the fact that every year governments allocate huge part of national budget to this sector. The study sought to determine the perceptions of employers regarding the quality of the Botswana Technical Education Programme (BTEP) graduates in terms of three main attributes, namely: survival, technical and employability skills. The main participants for the study were...
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Three mass deworming exercises were carried out at 6-monthly intervals in Ekpeye and Ogba Kingdoms for children in public and private schools in 2007 and 2008. Over 24,000 pupils aged 2 to ≥12 years received oral pyrantel palmoate in three consecutive phases under the supervision of trained field staff with no complications. Pre-deworming and post-deworming surveys were conducted to determine effect of deworming on the prevalence of helminthiasis in both kingdoms. This study showed that...
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This article reports on the relationship between seven factors that described dimensions of education service quality and overall service quality on one hand, and students’ satisfaction with the professional teacher development programmes by distance mode in a South African University on the other. We sought to find out whether students enrolled in the Advanced Certificate in Education and National Professional Diploma in Education academic programmes offered by distance mode by the School...
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There is a need to extend the climate change discourse. This should not be by paying less attention to the causes, which are now well known, but by stressing more the consequences, which have been ...
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The paper examined the tool of Information Communication Technology (ICT), its relevance and the need to integrate it into teacher formation programmes in Nigerian universities. The paper defined ICT in pedagogical context and so established its implicatians in education management for teacher education. It acknowledged the challenges facing the Nigerian education system and in particular the universities in the use of ICT materials in the development of teachers. It was concluded that the...
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This study was conducted to assess how the Nigerian secondary school vocational and technical education curriculum was implemented with a view to ascertain the extent to which it has empowered students for self-employment. The descriptive survey research design was adopted for the study. The sample comprised 380 junior and senior secondary school [JSS and SSS] students and 120 teachers, selected from twelve secondary schools drawn across three states in Nigeria, one state from each of North...
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ABSTRACT The study examined the impact of climate change on cocoa production in Ghana, Nigeria and Cote D’Ivoire from 1969 to 2009. A translog production function based on agronomic ideas was employed. The model was estimated using time series data with the Engle-Granger Error Correction Technique (ECM). The result shows that the two climatic variables, their lags and interaction with other leading variables have various degrees of impact on cocoa output in the selected countries. The ECM...
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In many societies, including Nigeria, persons with disabilities (PWDs) are extremely poor and disadvantaged. Economic empowerment is an effective means through which PWDs can fend for themselves and reduce poverty. The article focuses on the right of PWDs in Nigeria to economic empowerment. It argues that PWDs in Nigeria lack the opportunity to economically empower themselves, especially in relation to the Nigerians with Disability Act 1993. It also suggests ways through which PWDs can attain economic empowerment.
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This study, entitled 'An analysis of ICT policy development and practice in teacher education in Kenya between 1997 and 2007', is a qualitative study that uses a historical interpretive approach involving documentary analysis, interviews and case 'studies, to document the evolution of ICT policies relevant to teacher education in post independence Kenya, and explore the practices among teachers and teacher educators with ICT between 1997 and 2007. It examines the policy- practice...
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Chest radiographs are routinely requested as part of the medical screening process prior to admission to institutions. Literature on the yield of such an exercise is sparse especially in the Nigerian setting. This study was therefore carried out to assess the usefulness of routine chest radiography for students at the time of admission.This was a prospective study of 3859 chest X-rays taken at the department of radiology, University of Benin Teaching Hospital for one admission screening for...