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Abstract: The paper investigates the teacher-student interactions during English lessons at SS III Public Schools of Katsina Metropolis. The reason that triggered the research was the mass failure of students especially at Senior Secondary Examinations. The paper used the constructivist theory as a theoretical framework. It also used teachers’ and students’ questionnaires, a Target Language Observation Scheme (TALOS) and audio recorded lessons in the schools observed as instruments for data...

Masturbation is assuming an exponential increase in proportion among students of tertiary institutions in Nigeria. The challenges of masturbation appear to be the most important and commonest sexual threat among students today. Sex education and educational leadership remain veritable interventionist approach to dealing with the challenges of masturbation among students. Unfortunately, sex education in this part of the world is uncoordinated or worse still, neglected while educational...

Teacher-student interaction has been a concept that has been researched on for some years now. However, there seem to be paucity of researches that look at the dominative and integrative behaviour of teachers in the classroom. This study therefore was a survey work carried out to assess the integrative and dominative behaviour of Yoruba language teachers in senior Secondary Schools in Oyo State. To attain the objectives of this study, thirty schools were randomly selected from a senatorial...

Social media is one of the most used interactive communication tools in the current world. Almost every person above the age of ten years is operating an account of any social media platform. The study was guided by two objectives; to examine prevalence of social media use among secondary students and, to determine behavior displayed by the students as a result of social media use. The study was anchored on the social learning theory. A mixed-method research design was adopted. Purposive...

The study investigated parental contribution to their children's education in public secondary schools in Lushoto District.The study was guided by two (2) research questions.The study was guided by Epstein's theory of school family and community partnerships.In this study, the researcher adopted a mixed method approach under which a concurrent embedded design was used.The targeted population were 53 public secondary schools which involved 53 heads of schools, 2160 students, 2160 parents and...

Burundi is susceptible to future water-related disasters, but examining the influence of climate change on regional hydroclimatic features is challenging due to a lack of local data and adaptation planning. This study investigated the influence of climate change on hydroclimate-focused changes in the climatology of heavy precipitation (and streamflow) means and extremes based on the multi-model ensemble mean of earth system models in the sixth phase of the Coupled Model Intercomparison...

Hypertension and diabetes co-morbidity are very common chronic diseases in today's world.Patients with such conditions may have medication related problems.Assessment was made on the impact of clinical pharmacists' led education and counselling in patients with co-morbid hypertension and diabetes in a hospital setting.This study was done at the medical outpatient department (OPD) of a Municipal Hospital in Tema in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana.This was an intervention study conducted in...

This paper examines the concept of blended teaching and learning as an intervention for coping with the challenges created by COVID-19 pandemic and recommended the strategy for effective teacher preparation in Nigeria.Specifically, it attempted to do learning as a comparatively analysis of the efficacy of blended teaching and face to face teaching in relation to the current teacher preparation strategies in the Nigerian Colleges of Education.Strategies for successful use of blended teaching...

IntroductionMany scholars seem to have agreed on the definition of orphan though there are some who view it slightly different from others.UNICEF (2016) and its global partners views an orphan as a child who has lost either one parent or both.Ogina, (2007), defines an orphan as a child who lost both parents and one of his or her parents.According to UNICEF's report on the 15th of June 2016, there were over 140 million orphans globally in 2015, including 52 million in Africa, 61 million in...

Junior secondary schools' achievement in Basic Science continues to fall below expectations, despite several interventions by multiple stakeholders.Hence, there is need to research more on gender effects on the delivery of Basic Science curricula content.This study, therefore, examined the effect of gender on Basic Science students' academic achievement in secondary school.A pre-test, post-test, nonequivalent, control group, quasi experimental research design was adopted.Two intact classes...

Education in the 21st century must have a vision that will support and empower teachers to face the demands of the digital age. The use of information communication technology (ICT) in education can serve this end but ensuring access to digital resources will not address the digital disparity. Culture and language play an equally important role in exacerbating and maintaining the digital disparity as the traditional factor of access. In the study reported on here we investigated the...

The present study aims at investigating Moroccan EFL teachers’ participation in and attitude towards online professional development. It seeks also to examine teachers’ perceived effectiveness of online professional development by using a cross-sectional survey design. This design was supported with a questionnaire and a scale to collect data from a sample of (103) Moroccan EFL teacher. The data elicited was coded and analyzed quantitatively and qualitatively. The results of the study reveal...

This study has the primary objective to find out the importance and usefulness of teaching and learning materials for overcrowded or large classes.The research area is in Arumeru District, Tanzania.Social Constructivism Theory has been used for this study.Mixed method approach has been deployed.Sample consists of four heads of schools, fortyeight faculties, and hundred and sixty students from four public secondary schools.Various data collection instruments have been used.Some of them are...

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected higher education institutions and students’ overall wellbeing in unprecedented ways. This article reports on a study that explored the implications of the pandemic on university students’ wellbeing in Kenya. The article utilises a Thematic Analysis approach to understand university students’ lived experiences by exploring their perceptions on the implications of the pandemic on three dimensions of students’ wellbeing: Academic, Psychological and Social....

The continuos rise in number of teenage pregnancies has become a major public health issue which has the potential to erode all the gains achieved in trying to empower the girl child for self sustainance.The study through 'health risk' sensitive lenses evaluated the challenges faced in trying to implement Sexual Health Education Programmes in reducing early teenage pregnancies in Mzilikazi District in Bulawayo metropolitan province.Literature review was conducted from primary and secondary...

In spite of various policy initiatives and institutional frameworks, a good number of school-age children roam the streets of Nigeria.Nigeria unduly tops the rank in the total number of out-of-school children in the global scene.Now, about 16 million Out-Of-School Children (OOSC) live in Nigeria, and this means that about one out of five OOSC in the world relate to Nigeria.The number has increased from 8.7 million in 2014 to 13.2 million and 16 million in 2015/2019, respectively.But, this...

Ascaris worm as one of the commonest helminthic infection constitutes a major public health challenge and concern in the majority of developing countries . This study was conducted to assess the prevalence of Ascaris worm infection and its associated risk factors among primary school children in Lambata community, to determine the prevalence of Ascaris infection, age, gender and associated risk factors among them to create awareness and effective management program. A cross-sectional...

Ascaris worm as one of the commonest helminthic infection constitutes a major public health challenge and concern in the majority of developing countries . This study was conducted to assess the prevalence of Ascaris worm infection and its associated risk factors among primary school children in Lambata community, to determine the prevalence of Ascaris infection, age, gender and associated risk factors among them to create awareness and effective management program. A cross-sectional...

This paper reviews Williams’ (2013) assessment of the language-in-education policies of three African countries – Malawi, Zambia, and Rwanda. Williams’ (2013) paper, therefore, constitutes the main data of our review paper. The methodology used was descriptive design. Specifically, content analysis was used in reviewing the main sections of Williams’ (2013) paper. The current paper has four sections. These are introduction; language-in-education policies in Malawi, Zambia, and Rwanda; the...

Strengthening the identities of teacher educators is critical to quality teacher education and implementing change in the education sector. This study examines the professional identities of Eritrean teacher educators and how these identities can be strengthened through collaborative professional practice in a challenging context currently under reform. The focus is on the professional capacity building activities at the College of Education in Eritrea, which were implemented in...