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The paper examined poor reading culture: A barrier to students' patronage of Selected Secondary School Libraries in Ado Ekiti Local Government Area of Ekiti State.The design for the study is descriptive survey which utilizes questionnaire to collect data.Oral interview was also conducted.Tables and simple percentages were adopted in the data analysis.Results of the analysis show that computer and other media, harsh economic reality, societal demand for materialism, inadequate library...

Current literature on the conflict in the eastern provinces of The Democratic of Congo (DRC) tends to focus on the Hobbesian aspects of a decade long war and the impacts on state and society. The current focus of many policy analysts and human rights organizations working on the DRC focuses on the formal and informal criminal networks that continue to reinforce a predatory economy in light of an extremely weak, and fragmented, state.This study differs from present scholarship in that it...

This thesis explores the interaction between context and attitude in the languagein- education experiences of multilingual refugees in Kakuma Refugee Camp in Northern Kenya, East Africa. The aim was to discover how they respond to policy and practice in language-in-education and the macro-societal influences that affect their attitudes. I wanted to find out the realities the refugee learners face as a corollary of the policy and practice, and their responses towards these realities. I used...

This paper discussed extensively Teachers' Motivation and its influence onQuality Assurance in the Nigerian Educational System.The Nigerian educational system like wise the school is an arena which accommodates various resources (both human and material).These human resources including students, teaching and non-teaching staff are inputs that operate within the whims and caprice of this arena.Most essential of these inputs are the teachers that facilitate the teaching -learning process for...

This paper is put together to educate on the best possible means to deliverinstructions to students in technical and vocational education (TVE) programs. Realizing that TVE involves skills acquisition and also practically affiliated, the paper is conscious of this fact. As a result, it highlighted techniques and the factors that determine good teaching assignment as part of best means to achieve success in TVE instructional delivery. Recommendations are proffered based on the highlights.

In recent years it has become clear that climate change is an inevitable process. In Sub-Saharan Africa, the expectation is that climate change will have an especially negative impact, not only a result of projected warming and rainfall deficits, but also because of the vulnerability of the population. The impact upon food security will be of great significance, and may be defined as being composed of three components: availability, access, and utilization. To further investigate the link, a...

Women in Nigerian Society are in most cases not seen to have been well treated.This in most cases has been attributed to cultural factors which saw the place of the woman as in the kitchen.The situation is fast changing though and in some states within Nigeria there is a preponderance of women in schools.In many states, women education centers have been established to open up educational opportunities for women folk.Very often, the emphasis have been on vocational education specialties which...

Few studies examine whether early sexual experience is associated with subsequent illegal drug use among adolescents. A sample of 7,372 African American students who had not used illegal drugs before the age of 14 were identified in the dataset of the 2001 Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) Substance Use Survey. Using self-reported ages of onset, discrete-time survival models estimated the hazard of illegal drug use onset after age 13 subsequent to first sexual intercourse....

This paper examined the uses of computer and its relevance to teaching and learning in Nigerian secondary schools.The need for computer education and its objectives in Nigerian educational system were identified and discussed.The roles the classroom teachers would play and the challenges they would have to face in using computer for instruction were also highlighted.Possible solutions were suggested to ensure successful implementation of computer education programme in Nigerian secondary schools.

The post-apartheid era has generated opportunities for cross-racial mixing and socializing among young people inconceivable under apartheid, and this perhaps is no more apparent than in the formation of racially mixed public schools. In this article we draw on an interview study that seeks to investigate Grade 11 (16—17-year-old) young people and their lives and identities in different schools near Durban. We concentrate on interviews conducted with a group of middle-class white girls in a...

SUMMARY The present study employed the Heckman sample selection model to analyse the two- step process of adaptation to climate change, which initially requires farmers' perception that climate is changing prior to responding to changes through adaptation. Farmers' perception of climate change was significantly related to the age of the head of the household, wealth, knowledge of climate change, social capital and agro-ecological settings. Factors significantly affecting adaptation to...

SUMMARY The present study employed the Heckman sample selection model to analyse the two- step process of adaptation to climate change, which initially requires farmers' perception that climate is changing prior to responding to changes through adaptation. Farmers' perception of climate change was significantly related to the age of the head of the household, wealth, knowledge of climate change, social capital and agro-ecological settings. Factors significantly affecting adaptation to...

SUMMARY The present study employed the Heckman sample selection model to analyse the two- step process of adaptation to climate change, which initially requires farmers' perception that climate is changing prior to responding to changes through adaptation. Farmers' perception of climate change was significantly related to the age of the head of the household, wealth, knowledge of climate change, social capital and agro-ecological settings. Factors significantly affecting adaptation to...

SUMMARY The present study employed the Heckman sample selection model to analyse the two- step process of adaptation to climate change, which initially requires farmers' perception that climate is changing prior to responding to changes through adaptation. Farmers' perception of climate change was significantly related to the age of the head of the household, wealth, knowledge of climate change, social capital and agro-ecological settings. Factors significantly affecting adaptation to...

SUMMARY The present study employed the Heckman sample selection model to analyse the two- step process of adaptation to climate change, which initially requires farmers' perception that climate is changing prior to responding to changes through adaptation. Farmers' perception of climate change was significantly related to the age of the head of the household, wealth, knowledge of climate change, social capital and agro-ecological settings. Factors significantly affecting adaptation to...

SUMMARY The present study employed the Heckman sample selection model to analyse the two- step process of adaptation to climate change, which initially requires farmers' perception that climate is changing prior to responding to changes through adaptation. Farmers' perception of climate change was significantly related to the age of the head of the household, wealth, knowledge of climate change, social capital and agro-ecological settings. Factors significantly affecting adaptation to...

Many methods are used to enhance discipline in secondary schools.Among them are corporal punishment, guidance and counselling, psychological punishment and suspension from school.The use of corporal punishment was banned by the government and teachers were expected to use alternative methods.The opinion of the students on this matter was not sought.The main purpose of this study was to investigate students' perception of the effectiveness of the methods used to enhance discipline in public...