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This study explores the influences of female under-representation in senior leadership positions in community secondary schools in rural Tanzania. Key issues include factors contributing to women under-representation in leadership, the perceptions of members of school communities of women leaders and the challenges facing current women leaders that deter other women teachers from taking leadership posts. The empirical study included interviews, focus group discussions and questionnaires and...
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Background: There are numerous teaching strategies that suit the pedagogical learning, but not all can yield the desired outcome and be properly applied by nurse tutors in both classroom and clinical area.Therefore, identifying the utilization of the teaching strategy for nurse tutors is very detrimental in nursing education.Methods: Descriptive exploratory design which utilized both qualitative and sequential quantitative methods was applied to Iterated Purposive Probability Sampling (IPPS)...
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This study investigated factors facing school committees at enhancing the quality of education in Tanzania. Three objectives guided the study: firstly, to identify the problems that hinder committee members to effectively execute their responsibilities in Primary schools of Tanzania, secondly establishing the functional areas where the school committees perform to the best of their capacity as per standards predetermined and thirdly to explore challenges facing school committees in...
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The study aimed at exploring the impact of teachers‟ motivation on the improvement of quality teaching and learning in public primary schools in Tanzania. Three research objectives were formulated: (i) to examine the role of teacher‟s motivation in improving the pupils‟ academic performance, (ii) to identify factors that contribute to low teachers‟ morale and (iii) to suggest strategies for improving teachers‟ motivation to enhance the provision of quality education in public primary...
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Regular school attendance is very important to pupils. This study investigated the consequences of failure of pupils to attend school during funerals in Asego Division, Homa-Bay Sub County. The objectives of this study were to find out consequences of poor school attendance of pupils and gender differences in school attendance during funerals. Eight primary schools in Asego Division were sampled for this study. Two hundred and forty Luo pupils in classes four to eight in the sampled schools...
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The study sought to establish the influence of numerical strength, union’s timely response to members’ needs, peer pressure and effectiveness of Kenya’s teachers’ trade unions strategies on the choice of trade union. The study employed a survey research design and the target population consisted of 12 secondary schools with 320 teachers and 30 union officials in Dagoretti District. The total population included 320 teachers from both Kenya National Union of Teachers and Kenya Union of Post...
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A Dissertation Submitted to the school of Public Administration and Management in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for Award of the Masters Degree of Public Administration (MPA) of Mzumbe University
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Educational authorities in Ghana have generally established that the performance of school leavers especially at the pre-university level offered a large room for improvement, due to so many factors. Hence, the introduction of the New Educational Reform in 1987 which led to the new system of Senior Secondary School with the first product in 1993. The study was to create awareness of whether Ghana’s New Educational Reform, which has been in place since 1987, has led to improvement in...
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Past research suggests robust positive associations between household socioeconomic status and children's early cognitive development in Western countries.Relatively little is known about these relations in low-income country settings characterized by economic adversity, high prevalence of malnutrition and infectious disease, and relatively lower school enrollment.The present study develops and empirically evaluates an adapted model of early childhood development using a sample of 2711...
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Survival and fitness attributes of free-living and sporocyst schistosome life-stages and their intermediate host snails are sensitive to water temperature. Climate change may alter the geographical distribution of schistosomiasis by affecting the suitability of freshwater bodies for hosting parasite and snail populations. We have developed an agent-based model of the temperature-sensitive stages of the Schistosoma mansoni and intermediate host snail lifecycles. The model was run using low,...
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This study examined the successes and challenges of implementing a teacher education project that was designed to improve methods of teaching reading and writing in rural Sierra Leone. Thirty school leaders representing five chiefdoms participated in three five-day workshops, which were held over the course of the 2013–2014 academic year. After completing each of the weeklong workshops, the school leaders were expected to provide similar workshops for teachers in their regions. The hope was...
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The study aimed at assessing the way Local Government Authorities manage the training function of their employees. Case study design through questionnaires was used for data collection in which one hundred and ninety (190) questionnaires were distributed to respondents. The findings indicate that the majority of the respondents did not have knowledge on the available policy that guide the management of training functions in their District inspite of having adequate policies guiding...