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This study was carried out to examine the impact of educational planning on learners’ academic performance in public secondary schools of Musanze District. Specifically, the study sought to investigate the state of educational planning in the schools from 2010 to 2012. A sample of 35 Headmasters and 35 Academic Masters from 35 public secondary schools of Musanze District was used in this study.The study was guided by the following research questions: (1) What are the characteristics of...

Nascent and potential entrepreneurs need some pecuniary advantages that are acquired through knowledge and practice. The knowledge of financial accounting is vital in start-up and transacting businesses. The purpose of this study was to determine the financial entrepreneurial competences needed by vocational technical teachers’ education students. A research question and one null hypothesis were formulated to guide the study. A draft of the instrument was subjected to content validation by...

Although many scholars focused on the relationship between racial discrimination and different behavioral and psychological outcomes, there is a lack of large-scale studies giving detailed information on the different dimensions of racial discrimination and its impact on various outcomes. This study addresses this problem by analyzing data from a large-scale study (767 students, 47 schools) collected during the school year 2011-2012 and designed to study racism in Flemish secondary schools....

Loss of working hours, low productivity and the loss of human and material resources due to negligence of safety and industrial safety education programme has become an incessant problem in manufacturing industries. This research study therefore focused on the assessment of industrial safety education programmes in the manufacturing industries of Kaduna and Niger states of Nigeria. The study sought to identify the industrial safety education training needs of the industries; the potential...

With fifty students from a Christian Private University in Nigeria, this study assessed the acceptance of rape myths among university undergraduate students. Survey design was implemented with quantitative method applied. Multistage sam- pling was used: the University was conveniently selected by the researcher, while accidental sampling was used to select the student respondents that participated in the study. The study discovered that the students did not subscribe to some postulated rape...

With female respondents (n=40) from a private university in Nigeria, this study investigated whether social stigma still remains the only reason why the victims of rape would not make official report. Quantitative method was used and multistage sampling was employed in the selection of the research setting and the female participants. The university was selected conveniently and the participants were selected purposely. The instrument used was questionnaire with open ended and closed ended...

The purpose of this paper is to present the recent educational/policy reforms aimed at improving primary education in Tanzania (PEDP) as among the key strategy towards realizing education for All (EFA) in Tanzania. Success and challenges of this policy will be carefully highlighted. The paper will conclude the discussion by providing the policy recommendations for further improvement. Policy reforms in education in Tanzania are somewhat broad and complex dating far back soon after...

Surface water has been employed for different purposes without consideration of its quality and suitability. Solid waste disposal practices in most urban centres have negatively impacted on surface water quality. It is common practice for inhabitants to dispose their wastes in rivers and streams within populated areas of cities. Jos City, in North Central Nigeria, as a fast growing urban centre, has experienced environmental pollution as a result of these practices. This paper is aimed at...

Most South African universities have been acquiring new technologies for teaching and learning. This paper aims at understanding the domestication of e-learning platforms. The authors want to understand the factors that affect the domestication of the platform to become an integral part of teaching and learning. A qualitative research approach was employed. One-on-one interviews with eighteen snowball sampled participants was the data collection method used results of the study show that few...

This study investigates the Effects of Using Gagne's Learning Hierarchy on Chemistry Students'Academic Achievement and Anxiety level in Balancing Chemical Equations in Secondary Schools.The study sample used 100 SSII students randomly selected from two Senior Secondary Schools in Katsina Metropolis.The two schools were randomly placed as experimental and control groups each with 50 students.A quasiexperimental pretest-posttest research design was used for the study.The study subjects in the...

Although teachers in pre-primary settings may have positive views about using play as a method of teaching and learning in their classrooms, these views cannot be effectively implemented if they do not receive the necessary support and resources. This study explored challenges pre-primary teachers encountered as they utilized play as a curricular tool in school/educational settings in Ghana. Data for this study was gathered from 221 pre-primary school teachers via open-ended questions...

This meta-analysis study is a comparative analysis of gender disparity among the six geo-political zones and FCT primary and secondary school teachers. it made use of secondary data of registered teachers from 2003-2007 as documented by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS, 2008). The data were subjected to various gender statistics indexes analysis which included; absolute gap, gender ratio and relative gap. The results indicated that; (i) the highest absolute gap occurred in SW in favor...

Very large public universities, an inadequately developed public sector, and a rapid growth in the number of students seeking higher education are some of the challenges facing higher education in Syria today. The government’s ‘open admission policy’ has committed itself to securing ‘free access’ to higher education to every secondary school graduate. For this policy to continue and be successful and for the country and students to benefit, significant changes are needed, or else, the...

The study investigated the entrepreneurship skills needed and the strategies for improving its acquisition in students of vocational and technical education in colleges of education in Kogi State. The population for the study comprised of ninety nine (99) vocational and technical educators which at the same time formed the sample of the study. Data were collected from the respondents with use of a 30-item structured questionnaire drafted by the researcher. The data collected were analysed...

This study examined the impact of social studies curriculum on the affective dispositions of students of Colleges of Education in North-West Zone of Nigeria. The purpose of the study was to determine the level of NCE I and NCE III students’ affective dispositions in the area of compassion. One research question and one hypothesis was advanced for the study. Survey and causal comparative designs were adopted for the study. A sample of 3970 NCE students were carefully selected through a...

This study investigated the impact of social studies curriculum on the affective dispositions of students of Colleges of Education in North-West Zone of Nigeria. The purpose of the study was to determine the level of NCE I and NCE III students’ affective dispositions in the area of empathy. One research question and one hypothesis was generated for the study. Survey and causal comparative designs were adopted for the study. A sample of 3970 NCE students were carefully selected through a ...

The Nigerian education system is grappling with a plethora of problems which seem to defy solution over the years, chief among such problems is gross inadequacy in quality of facilities available to students in Nigerian secondary schools, and the haphazard citing of such schools occasionally in places that are not easily accessible or even places that are susceptible to ambient noise interference. The foregoing situation has had its backlash effects on academic performance of students as...