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Anaemia with an estimated prevalence of 35-75% among pregnant women is a major cause of maternal deaths in Nigeria. objective: To determine the prevalence of anaemia, associated sociodemographic factors and red cell morphological pattern among pregnant women during booking at the University Teaching Hospital, Uyo.A cross-sectional analytical study of 400 women at the booking clinic over a 16-week period. The packed cell volume and red cell morphology of each pregnant woman were determined....

This study is on the extent and intensity of extreme drought in some parts of the Savanna Region of Nigeria. The region is prone to drought occurrences. Data used were from 1941 to 2010 and for eight stations scattered over the region. The Bhalme and Mooley Drought Index (BMDI) was used to depict extreme droughts occurrence. This was with the intention of finding out the percentage of extreme drought occurrences over a 70 year period (1941-2010).Results showed that extreme droughts were...

School health instruction (SHI) is the instructional aspects of school health programme. It provides information on key health issues to school children who are in their formative years.A cross sectional descriptive study of all the primary schools in a focal Local Government Area in Nigeria was carried out to ascertain the implementation of SHI with regards to the contents, methods of delivery and teachers preparation for health teaching using an evaluation checklist for SHI.There were more...

Summary: The undertaken analysis of a state and a dynamic de-velopment of the structure of higher pedagogical ed-ucation in Syria during the recent decades allows the author to suggest that the modern stage is a period of global reforming, when the previous educational mod-els and standards are being revised and educational technologies are improving. At the same time the Syr-ian nation strives to enrich its accumulated potential and to explore the innovative experience in organiza-tion and...

The primary aim of this paper is to investigate the perceived effects of instructional media on the teaching and learning of Basic Science and Technology (BST) Curriculum at the primary education level in Nigeria. Specifically, it seeks opinion on the effects of instructional media on the teaching and learning of BST. It does so with a view to clarifying the advantages or otherwise of using instructional media in teaching and learning BST curriculum. Participants were sixty-three primary...

Ability and Location Differences in the Effects of Guided Inquiry on Nigerian Students’ Achievement in Social Studies Curriculum Eyiuche Ifeoma Olibie, Kate Oge Ezeoba Abstract In line with global challenges, the education system in Nigeria is advocating a shift from teacher to studentcentered instructional methods such as Guided Inquiry. This study sought to examine the effects of the guided inquiry method (GIM) on students’ achievement in Social Studies curriculum in Anambra State relative...

This paper describes my memories as one of the pupils taking computer studies in South Africa in the late 1970s, when such programs were still uncommon. The differences between how the subject was approached back then and current approaches are not only due to technological developments; the 1970s curriculum reflects a fundamentally different approach.

This chapter explains the need to better design blended teaching and learning curricula, the need to address infrastructural problems, and the need to organise programmes so that faculty and students can better plan for unanticipated and unintended situations that confront them in the teaching and learning processes. Improving the quality of education through the diversification of content and methods and promoting experimentation, innovation, the diffusion and sharing of information, and...

Nigeria is faced with myriad of problems among which are graduate unemployment, poverty, crime, and other social vices, which are as a result of economic meltdown or unsustainable development in the country, which needs urgent attention. In order to overcome this menace, this position paper examines the nature and concept of entrepreneurship education and its application for graduates of Nigerian universities. The specific impact of entrepreneurship education on the society for national...

The paper focused on the role of higher education as an instrument for improving on human capital development in the country. Emphasis was laid on how higher institutions in the country can be repositioned for the development of human capital. The concept of higher education was explained as well as the meaning of human capital development which means improving on workers efficiency in the work place. The factors that influence human capital development such as government policies, level of...

Women form almost more than half of the total population in rural Nigeria. Participation of Women in Labour Market activities in rural Nigeria has been on the increase in recent times. It is widely held that female education plays a pivotal role in increasing women participation in Labour Market activities. The present study endeavours to investigate the effects of different levels of education on women labour market participation in the study area. The study is based on the 2009/2010 NLSS...

Introduction: The importance of regular physical activity in the control of hypertension has been emphasized in various guidelines. This recommendation is usually suggested to the patients during routine clinic attendance. However in this setting, the different types of physical activities being undertaken at home are not well documented. Objective: To assess the types of physical activity being undertaken by hypertensive patients attending the medical out-patient clinic of the University of...

This study analysed physics students’ cognitive styles and physics achievement of senior secondary school students. Five hypotheses were tested. The sample consisted of 107 Senior Secondary III physics students from four co-educational secondary schools in  Ogun State. These students were categorized as analytic and non-analytic learners based on their performance on the Sigel’s Cognitive Style Test (SICOST). Results revealed that most of the students (69%) were analytic, and a significant...

The world grapples with the scourge of climate change and is threatening greater consequences, with the developing countries suffering the effects more than the developed countries. This study identifies the causes of this in the sub-Saharan Africa as low-level of awareness of climate change, non-implementation of environmental regulations where available, low-level of development, corruption and lack of technology to cope with the situation. The study seeks to identify the basic issues...

Global atmospheric concentration of substances that trap heat causing warming and change of climate is caused mostly by man’s activities- anthropogenic. Since efforts to curtail anthropogenic climate change commenced and countries came together to agree under the Kyoto Protocol to reduce carbon emissions, incidentally a larger percentage of the world was left out, constituting the developing countries, some of which eventually turn out to become leading carbon emitters, like Nigeria and...

This study investigated the effect of homework assignment on Mathematics achievement of Secondary School Students in South West Nigeria. The study was an experimental research design that employed the pretest and posttest control group. A sample of 600 students was selected from six Senior Secondary School 1 from Oyo, Ondo and Ekiti States through the stratified random sampling technique. The subjects and schools were randomly assigned to treatment. The two groups were taught the same...