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This study investigated the relationship between background variables, social responsibility and academic achievement among senior secondary school students in Bayelsa State of Nigeria. The sample of the study was made up of 450 senior secondary three students randomly selected from the secondary schools in Bayelsa State. From the data analyzed, it was found out that various dimensions of social responsibility are significantly related to academic achievement. The study also revealed that...

Formal attempts at Medical Education in Nigeria began in 1927 with the establishment of an institution in Lagos for training medical manpower to diploma level. They were trained to practice only in Nigeria. The program was not popular and was discontinued. Following the report of the Elliot Commissions on higher education in West Africa it was decided to establish the University of London College at Ibadan, with a Faculty of Medicine as one of the initial faculties. This was realized in...

Formal attempts at Medical Education in Nigeria began in 1927 with the establishment of an institution in Lagos for training medical manpower to diploma level. They were trained to practice only in Nigeria. The program was not popular and was discontinued. Following the report of the Elliot Commissions on higher education in West Africa it was decided to establish the University of London College at Ibadan, with a Faculty of Medicine as one of the initial faculties. This was realized in...

My interest in this topic of educational corruption originates in two separate incidents where I acted in different capacities as a high school student and teacher. The first one occurred almost twenty years ago as I was completing my junior years of high school. A female student, who performed poorly throughout the quarter with grades around E, had these turned into C when transcripts were handed over to us at the end of the quarter. Although this incident is now remote in the past, I can...

Observations have shown that the provision of services to children and adolescents with mental disability (CAMDs) is not responding to the needs of this population. This community based study was carried out in Temeke Municipality in Tanzania and aimed to explore factors that influence family perspectives in the provision of care to CAMDs. This is a qualitative study of 52 respondents from 29 families involved in the daily care of CAMDs, chosen through convenient sampling. A semi-structured...

Discriminatory practices in the recruitment and retention of faculty have been a recurring problem in academia. The Civil Rights Movement and all ensuing constitutional amendments provided some socio- political and lawful solutions to remedy academic disenfranchisement. Nevertheless, there is still a significant gap in the recruitment, retention, and promotion of racially, ethnically, and linguistically underrepresented groups, in the ranks of college and university faculty—this gap is ever...

The role of education in the development of communities has been receiving increasing attention from the South African Government. The purpose of this study was to determine how community developers could contribute to transformative learning in community groups. Using an emancipatory teaching approach, a housing education programme was presented to a group of women who had recently been allocated subsidized housing in a rural Northern Cape town in South Africa. During the implementation of...

Countries located at the South of Sahara are currently making significant progresses towards universal completion of primary education. Consequently the number of youngsters who knock at the door of secondary education is much increasing creating strong structural pressures on all segments of post-primary schooling. Identification of a strategy helping to cope with this issue in a sustainable way constitutes a major challenge for educational policies in all countries of the region. The...

Abstract: Based on an analysis of original social network data collected from 407 households in an urban community in Northern Nigeria, this article evaluates whether patronage relationships between households have consequences for children's educational attainment. A “social resources” perspective suggests that patronage ties may serve as a form of social capital that activates upward social mobility for entire families, thereby yielding more than simple transitory returns on social...

vi • Significant responses to climate variability and change involve organizing agriculture and related practices, than switching to off farm initiatives • While farmers’ selection of coping and adaptation strategies to climate variability and change and the associated outcomes may be intrinsic, this selection tends to be overwhelmingly shaped by diverse factors such as demography, access to information and assets and vulnerability levels Following the above conclusions, the study...

A Research Report Submitted To The Institute Of Open And Distance Learning In Partial Fulfillment Of The Requirement For The Award Of A Bachelor Of Education Of Kampala International University Uganda

Magnitude and severity of iron deficiency was evaluated in 413 randomly selected adolescent school girls (10–15 y) from Tigray, Northern Ethiopia. Mean (sd) hematocrit (hct) and ferritin levels were 42.9 (3.3) % and 48.4 (25.1) μg/L, respectively. Stunting was common (23.5%) and 27.1% were thin (−2 Z ) on the basis of BMI. Serum transferrin receptors (sTfR) for the 148 girls with lowest ferritins ranged from 4.5 to 20.5 with mean levels of 8.2 (2.6) mg/L. Mean and median (25 th , 75 th ) for...

A Research Report Submitted to the Faculty of Education in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Award of a Bachelor of Education E.C.P.E. of Kampala International University

Various partnerships and international research networks linking Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in the global North and South have emerged in the past decades, as an expression of higher education‟s contribution to international development, and of the need to bridge the North/South knowledge divide. Such partnerships have contributed to enhanced human and infrastructural capacity, as well as to a better integration of the southern partners in international exchanges. Nevertheless,...

Concern about climate and its impact on human populations in the Sahel since the 1970s was an immediate response to the most recent of recurrent drought periods. Understanding the relative impact of this drought on rural life in the Sahel is, however, not straightforward. This is due to the fact that climate is only one of many factors influencing local adaptation strategies to environmental changes. Another explanation could be that climate in many rural communities in the Sahel is simply...

To assess the factors associated with adolescent pregnancies among secondary students at Tanga municipality. A cross sectional descriptive analytical study which targeted all girls in secondary schools at Tanga municipality, Low socioeconomic status was found to be an important cause for adolescent pregnancies as 57.1% of respondents suggested. Other factors responsible were luxury and deprivation of education to girls (43.5% and 16.5% respectively). Source of reproductive health education...

Objective To evaluate the practicability of autologous blood donation and transfusion in the practice of obstetrics and gynaecology in our environment. Method A prospective study of 1221 obstetric and gynaecological patients to which autologous blood donation and transfusion was carried out at the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital, Maiduguri over an 8 year period (January, 1998 to December, 2005). Results During the study period, there were 15,267 blood transfusions in the UMTH out...

Teacher education programs (TEPs) are consistently challenged to respond to individual and collective growth. In addition, current demographic changes have forced these programs to address issues of quality and equity in measurable ways. As an African immigrant to the United States, I have been fortunate to be involved in these programs, especially in the areas of teaching, scholarship, and service. However, it has been disheartening to note that multicultural bridges are still shaky in many...