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The effects of violent conflict on education are enormous, and provision of quality education cannot be realised if teachers are not adequately trained to teach in conflict-prone areas. This reality prompted the study to investigate strategies to empower teachers in conflict transformation and peacebuilding. Guided by the Conflict Transformation Theory which proposes to identify the root causes of a conflict, and the use of creativity to transform the causes based on relationships and...

Natural and man-made disasters have wreaked havoc in society since time immemorial. Kenya has not been spared by the wide spread of such disasters. As demonstrated, disasters keep on reoccurring with higher intensity than before with an attitude and mode of operation of responding after the disasters have struck. This happens in a back drop of a more conscious society which is aware of its rights. Such a society may demand its rights for protection as a basic right enshrined in the Kenya...

As a multidisciplinary process, Adult and Continuing Education (ACE) is meant to foster efficient lifelong learning throughout life.To achieve this, it should be geared towards providing knowledge, skills as well as attitudes that ensure equal opportunities to life, meeting the needs of individuals of all ages so as to understand the world and the changes being experienced.In a bid to attain a newly industrialized status, Kenya's Vision 2030 development plan endeavours to develop the...

There may have been a time when we in Kenyan considered the use or abuse of drugs as a problem relating only to Western world. Today it has become an African problem to the extend that a month hardly passes without media reports on large quantities of drugs having been intercepted in a number of African cities and towns. The results of the study indicated that students abused drugs for varied reasons and the commonly abused drugs were alcohol, bhang, miraa, tobacco and kuber. The study...

In order to meet the heightened multiple expectations now placed on schools to have engaged teachers and students, schools have turned to collaboration and benchmarking. The problem is that, despite adoption of these techniques in the Western region, academic performance remains dismal. The main objective of this study was therefore, to establish the effect of collaboration and benchmarking on secondary schools’ mean scores in the Western Region. The study adopted a descriptive survey design...

The purpose of the study was to investigate the influence of academic staff involvement in management on turnover intentions in PDTTCs in Kenya. Purposive sampling was used to select 4 PDTTCs, 4 college principals and 8 senior masters. Simple random sampling was used to select 430 academic staff members for the study. Data was collected using a questionnaire which had closed-ended (likert type scale 1-5) questions. Items from the main questionnaire were arranged and grouped according into...

This study assessed the effectiveness of school administrative support in the implementation of Inclusive Education for Special Needs Learners in mainstream primary schools. Focusing on the organizational effectiveness of the school leadership in meeting the needs of Special needs Learners, research questions explored the following: school administrative support in implementation of inclusive education values, administrative support on creation of inclusive school environment, administration...

A descriptive survey design was used to investigate the role of the sponsor in secondary school management and its impact on academic performance in Uasin Gishu District, Kenya. A purposive sampling technique was used to select 97 secondary schools where the head teachers of the schools and 7 Education Secretaries of the sponsoring churches formed the sample. Instruments of data collection were document analysis and a questionnaire. Descriptive and inferential statistical techniques were...

The factors associated with students’ academic performance may have been addressed but the impact of parental involvement continues to be a significant issue. Some schools in Kenya post poor results amid claims that parents are not supportive. This study examined the effect of parental involvement in homework on academic performance in public primary schools in Teso North Sub County, Busia- Kenya. The objectives were; to establish the types of homework assistance children get from parents,...

Student data management in schools seems to be ignored by educational planners in developing countries and needs to be addressed if effective planning is to be attained and the goal of quality education realized. Studies have revealed that educators fear data, and have poor record keeping cultures in institutions of learning which may account greatly to the inability of school principals to plan and administer schools without embarrassment from time to time. There is evidence from existing...

It is a statutory requirement that public organizations in Kenya, schools included develop strategic plans. This will aid Kenya adjust to the dynamic and competitive world and realize vision 2030. However, it was established that many schools had strategic plans but their operationalization was an issue. The purpose of this study was to investigate the challenges faced by secondary school managers in strategic planning in KakamegaCounty, Kenya. The study adopted a descriptive survey design....

Higher education in Kenya has experienced tremendous growth since independence. With only one public university with an enrolment of less than 1000, the number stands at twenty two public universities with student population of over 150,000. This growth has been attributed to the introduction of module II programs and increased private and public funding for university education. However, despite the increase in enrolments, there has been no commensurate development and/or improvement of the...

The purpose of this study was to establish how tuition financing of secondary education affects students’ participation in public secondary schools in Siaya County. The researcher used mixed methods approach and descriptive research design where both qualitative and quantitative data was collected. The target population was 21,017 comprised of 276 school principals, 6 Sub County Directors of Education and 20,735 Form IV students with a sample size of 2,160. The researcher adopted stratified...

Educational planning and development has been influenced by the social-economic and political needs of the society since time immemorial. One of the greatest educational challenges in developing countries is to maximize learning in educational systems based on available and reliable data since they have limited resources. Data in this study were collected through primary sources which included questionnaires to 28 and 112 Principals and HoDs respectively who were purposively sampled from 28...

Sustainable students’ enrollment with minimal dropouts in public secondary schools has remained a great concern to many educators in the educational realm. There have been different opinions amongst stakeholders on what actually causes students’ dropout in public secondary schools. This study sought to investigate the role of students’ characteristics in influencing student dropout among secondary school students in Vihiga County. In this study, the school characteristics examined the school...