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The purpose of the study is to appraise the problems often encountered by undergraduate technology education students in other degree awarding institutions in north-eastern Nigeria.Three purposes, research question and hypotheses guided the study.The study adopted descriptive survey research design.The area of the study was North-eastern Nigeria and the population of the study comprises of 154 bachelor degree students in the two degreeawarding institutions offering technology education...

This study examined the availability and utilization of handwashing facilities among public primary school pupils in Okigwe Education Zone two (2) of Imo State, Nigeria. Four research questions were posed to guide the study. One hypothesis was formulated and tested. The study adopted a survey research design. Random sampling technique was used to select a sample size for the study. 295 pupils (age bracket 6–14 years) from 12 public primary schools and their form teachers...

The study investigated the level of civic knowledge and attitude as antidotes of civic engagement of secondary institution students in Oyo State. It also examined their attitude towards civic engagement. The research design is descriptive of the survey type. Population comprised all 411,912 public schools in urban and rural areas in Oyo State. Sample was 600 public school students selected using multistage sampling procedure. The instrument used was titled ‘Students’ Civic Engagement...

This study aimed to determine the school farm facilities available for teaching of Animal Husbandry; the extent of use of the available school farm facilities; the constraints to the availability and use of school farm facilities and the strategies for enhancing the use of school farm facilities in the teaching of Animal Husbandry.Four research questions and hypotheses were developed.Survey research design was adopted with a sample size of 191 persons, comprising 24 Agricultural science...

IntroductionThe library is the main learning resource centre in a school.In a library, various resources are assembled and systematically arranged for utilization (Shiundu and Omulando, 1992).The library is therefore a vital part of the school's teaching and learning process recognized as a place of promoting teaching and learning.All schools must include a library for its long and distinguished history of developing and sustaining teaching and learning.(Murray, 1997).Paterson (Elaturoti,...

With the growing need for forensic mental health services and the call for increasing rigour in clinical practice, the development of specialised training programmes appears to be increasing globally. In South Africa, the licencing authority has also been focusing on this issue, and its task group has been investigating specialty training models in regard to future developments in licensure, training, qualifications, and related registration matters. The present investigation was undertaken...

SMU) is a university established in 2015 on the Medunsa campus of University of Limpopo (UL) due to the unbundling from UL.In 2016, physiotherapy students of SMU complained about deficiencies in their academic achievements and learning.This incident inspired a study to determine perceptions and experiences of physiotherapy students towards their academic learning environment and to measure their academic performances.The study used a mix of quantitative and qualitative descriptive design.It...

Drug and alcohol are significant problems that affect school-age adolescence at earlier age than in the past.Young people frequently start to experiment alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs during the middle school years, with a smaller number beginning during middle school years, and a smaller number starting during high school.The purpose of this study was to look into challenges faced by teachers and learners on drug and substance abuse in selected public secondary schools in Kenya.The...

IntroductionMany women around the world have got to become used to with their lives to a varying weather.As increase in severe climate situation droughts, storms, and floods are currently changing economies, economic growth, and patterns of human movement, and are likely to be in the midst of the major universal health fear in this century.Thus every person will be affected by these changes, but not uniformly.Susceptibility to weather alteration will be strong-minded by a group of people or...

This study investigated the effects of participative decision making on employee intention to leave among teachers in public secondary schools in Bungoma South sub-county, Kenya. The study adopted a descriptive survey design on a target population of 932. Stratified simple random sampling was used to sample teachers, heads of departments and the principals, while the purposive sampling technique was used to sample the educational officials. A sample size of 100 respondents was selected to...

This study investigated the level of awareness of flipped learning strategy as one of the suitable pedagogy for next generation learners by Obafemi Awolowo University pre-service teachers. It determined their perceptions of flipped learning strategy, and also, examined if the pre-service teachers possess prerequisite skills for implementing flipped learning strategy. The study employed descriptive survey research design. The population of the study comprised all the 2,423 pre-service...

Introduction: School failure is quite common in medical education, with great impact on students and on medical schools.Understanding the factors that most influence the likelihood of failure is extremely relevant for schools, with that the schools can implement timely problem identification and support procedures to students with difficulties.Methods: Was performed a descriptive and analytical study on the determining factors of academic failure at a public university, the PRPQI...

Teacher migration is a phenomenon that gained international momentum more than eighteen years ago. South Africa was one of the developing countries within the Commonwealth which were greatly affected by the loss of homegrown skills in respect to teacher emigration to the United Kingdom. In the past ten years, however, South Africa has attracted teachers from neighbouring countries. Whilst there have been some studies on migrant teachers in South Africa, research on migrant teachers in...

Abstract There has been little examination of: (1) associations of early-life nutrition and adolescent cognitive skills, (2) if they vary by gender, (3) if they differ by diverse contexts, and (4) contributions of post-infancy growth to adolescent cognitive attainment. We use Young Lives data on 7687 children from Ethiopia, India, Peru, and Vietnam to undertake ordinary least squares estimates of associations between age-1 height-for-age z -score (HAZ) and age-15 cognitive outcomes (math,...

The study investigated the role of teachers and parents on students’ career choice preparedness as perceived by secondary schools’ students in Meru District, Tanzania, using survey research design. Through systematic and purposive sampling, the sample of 406 students from 10 schools filled the questionnaire. Validity was established through expert judgment and the questionnaire was subjected to pilot testing whereby Cronbach’s Alpha of above 0.700 was established prior to data collection....

Schistosomiasis caused chronic infection which can affect all aspects of a person's health and learning especially among school children.This study was carried out to determine the prevalence of schistosomiasis among school children in Pilgani District, Langtang North LGA, Plateau State.Two prelabeled specimen bottles were given to each school pupil for stool and urine samples collection.The stool samples were prepared using formal-ether concentration technique and examined for Schistosoma...