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Doctor of Philosophy in Political Science. University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg 2016.

The paper examines the relevance of physical facilities in enhancing the level of motivation and the academic performance of senior secondary school students in South West Nigeria. The study adopted ex-post facto design.. The population consists of all senior secondary students in South West Nigeria. The sample for the study include one thousand and fifty senior secondary school students from three states out of the six states in the South West Geo-political zone. The researcher made use of...

Rice is Uganda’s second major cereal crop however; its productivity has been considerably low and stagnant between 1.3 to 2.4 tons per hectare over the last 15 years. One of the underlying factors of low productivity is the current growing conditions which are not optimal for production due to climate variability. Adaptation is therefore pivotal in countering climatic challenges in production. Empirical evidence however, point to limited adaptive ability of farmers. This paper assessed...

Unawareness of the peculiar healthcare needs of the elderly and resource constraints may be some reasons why until recently, Nigerian hospitals have not been equipped with the human and infrastructural resources required to meet older adults' special healthcare needs. There is paucity of specialized health services for the elderly in Africa. Nigeria, with a population of over 170 million, did not have any healthcare facility with dedicated services for the elderly until 2012. The University...

The study explored students’ perceptions of academic advising in the University of Cape Coast (UCC) using the descriptive survey design. Four research questions were formulated to guide the study. The population of the study was all undergraduate students in the University. Multi-stage sampling procedure was used to select 400 students who had prior interactions with their academic advisors for the study. Proportional stratified sampling and simple random sampling techniques were employed....

To attract greater levels of foreign direct investment into their gold mining sectors, many mineral-rich countries in sub-Saharan Africa have been willing to overlook serious instances of mining company non-compliance with environmental standards. These lapses in regulatory oversight and enforcement have led to high levels of pollution in many mining communities. The likelihood is high that the risk of pollution-related sicknesses, such as skin infections, upper and lower respiratory...

Water have been found to be a life-supporting liquid. Humans like other living being required water for purposes of its metabolism. Human uses water for other purposes including domestic and industrial activities. Nearly every human daily activities will be free of water use. This goes further to connote the important of water. Contamination of water sources relatively has great impact on human health, domestic and industrial development as well as the survival of aquatic lives which also...

Libraries have transformed into digital and virtual libraries where books, journals and magazines have changed into e-books, e-journals, and e-magazines. This has increased the global dissemination of information (Abinew & Vuda, 2013). Electronic resources such as e-journals, e-books, e-databases, web resources, e-serials amongst others are easily accessible in remote areas. Jone (2008) opined that electronic resources solve storage problems and control the flood of information, that is,...

Reading among students is a vital aspect of their learning process and should be encouraged, any effort or innovation that improves the reading motivation of students is worth sustaining. This study was carried out to evaluate the impact of ebooks on reading motivation of students in Nigerian Higher institution based on observations that the rate of reading has been dwindling and majority of youths prefer to while away time on frivolities rather than reading to widen their intelligence. The...

Rising sea levels, due to thermal expansion of the ocean, and higher frequency and intensity of coastal and inland storms threaten coastal communities worldwide. The implementation of pro-active, planned adaptation to reduce community vulnerability is strongly dependent upon people's awareness of the threat posed to their communities at the local level.  With a focus on university lecturers in South-South Nigeria, a group of people expected to be knowledgeable; this study set out to look at...

This research aimed at investigating The contribution of the basic schools principals in identifying and caring for the gifted students in Mukalla city. The researcher used the quantitative and qualitative approach to achieve the aims of the research, and used two tools; the first tool is the questionnaire which was prepared by the researcher, The second one is the open ended interview. The researcher took all the members of the research community who are the principals of the basic schools...

Background: School difficulties are common in patients with sickle cell disease (SCD). The study aimed to assess the relationship between severity of SCD in children and their school absenteeism and achievement.Subjects and Methods: The sample included school-aged children (7–15 years old) with SCD who were enrolled from Hematology Clinic in Al-Sadaqa General Teaching Hospital, Aden, during 2013 through 2014. Data about school absence, academic score achievement, and grade retention were...

The main questions addressed in this paper are the following: what are the interventional factors that affect instructors' adoption of an e-Learning system and what are the relationships among these factors?. For this purpose a number of hypotheses were formulated. In this study, a framework was conceptualized based on an extended version of the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) integrated with intervention factors. The findings of the study show that there is a significant positive...

This research deals with an important problem that faces students of English language departments, Hajjah University, Yemen which is the misuse of stress in pronouncing English words and reading English poetry. It points out the reasons of this problem and suggests some solutions and suggestions to overcome this problem. الملخص: يتناول البحث بالدراسة والتحليل مشكلة من اهم المشاكل اللغوية التي تواجه طلاب قسم اللغة الانجليزية بجامعة حجة باليمن في نطق الكلمات وتقطيع الشعر لتحديدالتفعيلة...

This study analysed the empirical differences in standard setting procedures in public examinations and determined the differences in the standard setting procedures used for core Senior School Certificate Examination (SSCE) subjects of Mathematics, English Language and Biology by West African Examinations Council (WAEC).It determined the differences in the general standards of SSCE core subjects and in the proportion of the grades in relation to the effect size.These were with a view to...

This study examined the impact of frequency of testing on achievement in Mathematics among secondary school students in Ogun State, Nigeria. Two hypotheses were postulated to direct the study. Quasi experimental pre-test / post-test research design was used for the study. The population of the study comprised all senior secondary school students in Ogun State. The sample for the study comprised 157 (76 male and 81 female) SSII students selected (using Multistage Random Sampling technique)...

The quality of education means much to the development of any nation. The government of Nigeria since independence realizes the unique position of education as a catalyst to the development of individual and the society at large. Much as they do; and much as they pronounce it; education polices and its implementation procedures at all levels of governmental powers in Nigeria have revealed intricacies in politics which brought Nigeria into a situation of 'one leg forward and two legs...