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Abstract This paper examined the impact of parenting and academic achievement of senior secondary school two students in Calabar Municipality of Cross River State, Nigeria. The study adopted the survey design method using 200 senior secondary two students selected from the sampled schools within the study area through simple random sampling technique. A researcher designed data collection instrument titled “Impact of Single Parenting on the Academic Achievement of Senior Secondary School...

Drug and substance abuse among university students is of public health concern and is becoming a global threat to the education system. This is more devastating to the academic performance of the addicts. The present study aims to assess the prevalence and impacts of psychoactive substance abuse among the university undergraduate students in Katsina State, Nigeria, and to determine the effects of such abuses on the students' academic performance.A cross-sectional study was conducted using...

Nowadays, higher educational theory seems to be concerned with positional thinking that reconsiders what universities ought to accomplish to justify their existence in the realm of higher education (Waghid and Davids, 2020). I want to extend this claim by arguing in defence of an African philosophy of higher education – one that is genuine and enframes higher education as a pedagogical space for resistance, critique, deliberative iterations, autonomy, and intellectual activism. Put...

Agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa is undergoing rapid transformation involving major changes in farmland ownership and farm scales from small to medium farms, with the widespread use of mechanisation and agro-inputs. Generally, households are increasing their farm sizes while others are dropping out of agriculture as the non-farm economy grows in both rural and urban areas. This study examined the changes in farmland sizes in two districts in the north of Ghana where agricultural...

This article explores how particular understandings of Blackness among African immigrant students and parents shape their experiences of exclusion and belonging within the American educational landscape. Based on ethnographic interviews drawn from a larger mixed-methods study of African immigrant students and parents in a mid-Atlantic community, the article discusses the meanings these immigrants give to race, and the ways in which being an African Black was associated with experiences of...

A large literature has described the years after independence from colonial rule as a period of ‘departicipation’. Africa’s new rulers – whether driven by personal venality or a sincere commitment to nation-building – swiftly gave up on elections, or at best held elections that, by denying choice, left violence as the central dynamic of African politics. This article draws on the cases of Kenya, Ghana and Uganda in the late 1960s to argue that the emphasis often placed on the ‘speed and...

East African Rift Valley basin. Water availability in the rift valley relies heavily on the discharge from the highlands to rivers that run to the rift floor. This research explores the effect of Land use/Land cover (LULC) and climate change on water yield and groundwater recharge (WYGR) using coupled SWAT-MODFLOW, which integrates Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) and Newton Modular Finite Difference Groundwater Flow (MODFLOW-NWT). The LULC change was analyzed using artificial neural...

Abstract Background Tobacco use is considered one of the leading risk factors for early morbidity and mortality especially in developing countries. Initiation of tobacco use occurs usually during adolescence which is responsible for a longer time of exposure to nicotine and other constituents of tobacco products. The aim of this study is to determine the incidence and the factors associated with tobacco experimentation among high school students in the governorate of Sousse between 2017/2018...

Abstract Background Tobacco use represents a major risk factor for incident disability-adjusted life years among adolescents especially in developing countries. In Tunisia, a national strategy to reduce tobacco use was set up since 2008. However, no surveillance system was implemented to evaluate it. Objective To examine trends in tobacco use among middle school children in Sousse, Tunisia between 2014 and 2016 and to determine predictors of its experimentation. Methods and findings Three...

In the current study, Turkish and Syrian primary school students’ intergroup attitudes were examined through the experiences of classroom teachers. The study was designed as a qualitative research. A semi-structured interview technique was used in order to gather detailed data from classroom teachers. The study group consists of 40 classroom teachers, 6 male, and 34 female. The qualitative data collected from teachers were analyzed through the thematic analysis technique. The study revealed...

Perhaps one of the most scathing critiques on school leadership and management literature in Africa is its reliance on western models that do not quite fit the context, hence a lack of relevance.In this article I present a postcolonial reading of the representation of school leadership and management literature in Africa.The analysis suggests that school leadership and management literature in Africa is represented in deficient ways that do not promote indigenous ways of developing...

The study examined the influence of social support on the academic performance/self-efficacy of students at Methodist University College, Ghana. The purpose is to examine whether social support influence academic performance, examine whether gender differences exist in social support students receives and their academic performance, explore how high resilience self-will predict academic performance. The research design employed was a survey. One hundred and twenty students were selected for...

Abstract: The consistency of the aquatic environment at any point reflects basin lithology, anthropogenic input and climatic conditions. Spatial and seasonal distribution of heavy metal pollution in tropical Lagoon off the Gulf of Guinea was investigated between November, 2018 to October, 2019. Water samples were collected bi-monthly for heavy metal analysis and physicochemical parameters were measured in-situ every month. Results for physicochemical parameters were presumed to be ideal for...

The height of moral decadence of adolescent is a worrying development that may degenerate to uncontrolled situation if not checked. The crime rate and other civic problems in the society cannot be clearly linked to any particular cause, hence, the need to explore the underlying principle behind this horrible fashion. This problem prompts this study on factors with teachers’ implementation of civic education curriculum in secondary schools in Cross River State, Nigeria. The study adopted...

The study examined the use of quality teaching and learning resources and how these affect the teaching and learning of Integrated Science. A total of 172 randomly selected second year Senior High School (SHS) students and 25 Integrated Science teachers purposively sampled served as the subjects for the study within six districts in the Central Region of Ghana. Questionnaires were used to collect the students’ and teachers' needed data. This study's key findings revealed a lack of teaching...


 Distance learning can be regarded as learning that predominates entirely through the internet. It has been implemented because of the pandemic of Covid 19. According to Chaney (2010: 5-21), it is also referred to as distance learning, which is a swiftly flourishing setting that allows teachers and students and all people working in all domains the flexibility of working beyond the restraints of time and place. Also, this shift from face-to-face lectures to online classes is the only...

Report on Teachers at Aman from Ngleshie Cluster Basic Schools in the GA South Municipality of Ghana IntroductionAdvancement in technology has had impact on every aspect of life.The 21 st century has shown that digital revolution is at its crescendo;transmission and dissemination of information has become very swift and convenient.Also, globally, this century is associated with better, innovative and improved ways of communication.Teaching and learning in various technologically inclined...