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Most United Kingdom (UK) universities are franchising fast with foreign universities affording low cost tertiary education. Most students and graduates in Mauritius have their degree and other awards from local, Indian or British universities. However, in the recent couple of years UK universities are franchising more and more with local institutions (University of Mauritius and University of Technology Mauritius) with large campuses on the small island of the Republic of Mauritius. Of both...

Many senior secondary school students struggle with reading comprehension of expository texts in Nigeria, leading to mass failure in the Senior School Certificate Examinations conducted by the West African Examination Council (WAEC). Research on improving reading comprehension has dwelt on isolated reading strategies taught the learners through the conventional lecture method. No study has explored the effect of video-based training on metacognitive strategies and verbal ability on...

It remains unquestionable that pupils’ educational achievement is related to parents’ social class yet the mechanisms that form this relationship are not well understood. For decades and even centuries, one of the major concerning issues to the conservatives and modern African literate, is the issue of single-parenting. Single-parenting is already becoming a fast and rapidly growing trend in the society.  In most parts of Africa, parental roles are culturally determined. Maternal role is...

In order to make up for the social effects caused by many years of under-development as a result of dictatorship, ethnic conflict and civil wars, the current government of Uganda decided to promote national unity and national pride through primary school music festivals as part of reforms in the education sector. The government, through the Ministry of Education and Sports (MoES) sponsored music competitions amongst schools whose objective is described by the mutual process of socialization...

Bullying in schools is a global phenomenon that has the potential to impact on children not only physically but also psychologically. In South Africa countless children fall victim to bullying, harassment and abuse at schools. A myriad of constitutional rights are infringed upon when bullying occurs, and the problem is escalating. The Protection from Harassment Act 71 of 2011 was signed and accepted into law on the 27th of April 2013. This new Act may grant relief to victims of bullying...

Evidently, the implementation of a DL system does not ensure a high-quality education. The purpose of this study is to explore the dynamics and challenges of distance education at Private Higher Institutions in South Ethiopia. In a given study, a representative sample of tutors and academic program leaders selected through simple random and stratified sampling techniques. Questionnaires and interview were instrumental for data collection. The finding revealed that, the number of learners in...

This article reports on a project that was aimed at establishing a model for the governance of teaching schools in South Africa within the framework of the current legal dispensation for the public and the independent schooling sector. The paper mainly addresses the powers and functions of public schools and school governing bodies as defined within the broader framework of The South African Schools Act 84 of 1996, The National Education Policy Act (Act 27 of 1996), and the Employment of...

Skills training for Civil Technology learners in South African schools, is an aspect entrenched in the Civil Technology policy document in order to produce skilled personnel for a sustainable economy. Practical activities through the Practical Assessment Task (PAT) are national requirements for all practical-based subjects from grades 10–12 in South African schools. The purpose of this study was to investigate the status of Civil Technology practical activities in three South African schools...

This paper reports on a case study of male foundation phase pre-service students who were among the first cohort to specialise in the foundation phase since the inception of the programme at one South African university. The students reported on their experiences of teaching in a female-dominated field and their views about their preparedness to teach in the field. This qualitative study is interpretive in nature. Using purposive sampling, eighteen students were sampled from a population of...

This study was designed to determine the effect of constructivist instructional four-step approach on the achievement and retention in pattern drafting by Nigeria Certificate in Education Home Economics students in south-south zone, Nigeria. The study adopted a quasi-experimental research design which involved groups of students in their intact classes assigned to experimental and control groups respectively. The population for the study was 333 year-one students of all the colleges of...

The problem of flooding in Warri, Nigeria is as old as the city itself. What has changed in recent years is the rapidly increasing magnitude and frequency of floodwater retention pools on urban streets as urban development expanded into low-lying swamplands within the city. Through the process of community urban risk assessments, urban flood zone occupants acknowledge the growing problem of on-street flood retention pools in a city once dominated by problems with off-street flood retention...

The thrust of the paper was to investigate the personality traits and administrative effectiveness of secondary school principals in Southwestern Nigeria. This was with a view to improving administrative skills of secondary school principals. The sample size comprised of 53 principals and 821 teachers who were selected from 53 public secondary schools from four states in Southwestern Nigeria using multistage and purposive sampling techniques. Principals’ Personality Traits Questionnaire”...

In this article, the authors provide portraits of three mathematics teachers: one European American man, one African American man, and one Middle Eastern woman. All three taught in secondary schools with predominantly African American student populations. Semi-structured interviews and observations were conducted to create a comparative case study that analyzed the teachers' "star" background experiences and skills (Haberman, 1995). The analysis also focused on whether or not there was a...

This paper examined strategies of empowering individuals to empower the nation with focus on Technical and Vocational Education Training (TVET), Entrepreneurship Education (EE) and Information Communication Technology (ICT). It is established that from history TVE was not given its prominent place and that may have accounted for the slow and lagging nature of advancement in TVE. Consequently, future progress will be determined by the level of empowerment given to individuals in schools which...

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The study investigates the impact of educational aspiration on vocational choices of the female secondary school students in Ondo West Local Government of Ondo State, Nigeria. The study used descriptive survey design targeting some of the female students from the 3 Female Secondary School in Ondo West Local Government. Purposive sampling technique was used to select 3(three) schools, from which 200 students were selected from each schools using simple random sampling. Data was used using...

The study examines the implementation of the new senior secondary school curriculum for the realization of the objective of entrepreneurship education in Ondo State, Nigeria Today ,many grandaunts from Nigerian Secondary Schools are unemployed and cannot employ themselves. They are curiously idle because they lack the pre-requisite for job creation despite the secondary education received. Descriptive research design of survey type was used. Ondo State is made up of three Senatorial...

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