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In Nigeria education is provided by both government and private proprietors at the basic, post basic and tertiary levels. For some time now the quality of education provided in these public and private sectors has been a source of concern to both the literate and illiterate in the society. To some the standard of education has fallen while others believe it is high. However against the background of the fact that the education sector is bedeviled with a myriad of challenges, the quality of...

Entrepreneurial training programme has to do with acquiring relevant skills in which an individual has to be sensitized, motivated and guided to achieve self-reliance and self employment.The paper examined the relevance of entrepreneurial training programme in the universities to graduates' productivity.Three null hypotheses were formulated.A sample size of 1200 graduates was randomly selected from the South-South Geo-Political Zone in Nigeria.The instrument used for the study was...

This paper discussed quality assurance as the major print out of emphasis towards ensuring standard education in Nigerian educational system. It discussed supervision of instruction as the panacea for quality in the Universal Basic Education in Nigeria Schools. Objectives of UBE and the need for effective supervision of the Scheme were discussed System theory was used as the theoretical frame work in the paper. Strategies for effective supervision were proffered. Recommendations were made...

<h3>Background</h3> Adolescents are among the vulnerable groups at risk of HIV infection. In Nigeria,the high HIV prevalence and teenage pregnancies amongst in-school youths underscores the need to implement effective interventions that address risky sexual behaviours and ultimately reduces the transmission of HIV. This study examines the outcome of Combined Prevention Interventions (CPI) amongst in-school youths in Kwara state,Nigeria. <h3>Methods</h3> The MSH Nigeria USAID funded ProACT...

All economies of the world possess four essential elements, viz, land; labour; capital and entrepreneurship, though they are not evenly distributed. Entrepreneurship education seeks to provide students with knowledge, skills and motivation to encourage entrepreneurial success. The highest pool of potential workforce for any nation is its university students. This study was carried out in the University of Uyo, Nigeria, to investigate the appropriate strategies for integrating...

Education is priceless and every academic institution needs to be very serious about its management and administration in order not to mess around with the students' academic headway.Therefore, there is need for them to significantly improve and incredibly convenient arrangement by which former students receive final academic transcripts.It is indeed a nightmare of unimaginable proportions to attempt to get academic records from some universities, especially in recent times.This is as a...

It has often been stated that fresh graduates of Nigerian tertiary institutions in vocational courses have little or no practical production skills to make them readily employable without further training. A lot of reasons have been attributed to this including inadequate and obsolete facilities for skill teaching and learning. This paper presents Cooperative Occupational Education (COE) as a strategy to overcome this problem and prepare Nigerian youths for employment in agricultural...

Teaching is a special profession that should be given every encouragement if a society must grow in every ramification. The worth of society’s citizens makes that society important in comity of nations. The teaching profession in Nigeria has gone through many stages and even today there are disagreements as to whether it should be called a profession. The change in status actually came after the founding of its umbrella body The Nigeria Union of Teachers (N.U.T.). The formation of this body...

The current study had two main objectives. The first was to investigate Botswana’s university students’ intentions to seek psychological help. The second was to investigate whether (a) Attitude Toward Seeking Professional Psychological Help (ATSPPH), (b) Self-Stigma of Seeking Help (SSOSH), and (c) Social Stigma of Receiving Psychological Help (SSRPH) predicted the students’ intentions to seek psychological help. A total of N = 519 (283 females and 236 males) students from the University of...

This article discusses knowledge production related to the South African further education and training (FET) colleges undertaken in the first two decades post-apartheid. The article provides a periodisation across three overlapping phases for research related to FET colleges. These phases are defined by the transformation of skills development in South Africa post-democracy, by the structural relationship between the state and the research community and by the epistemological approaches and...

We assessed the potential of drosophilids as indicators of the response of tropical ecosystems to climatic factors over an annual cycle in the montane forest of Mt Oku, by collecting samples at seven sites evenly spaced from 2200 m to 2800 m asl. Only 0.1% of the 11,000 specimens collected belonged to invading species or those commensal with humans, showing the weakness of anthropogenic factors. Species abundance was highly skewed. One species, Zaprionus vittiger, made up 81% of the sample,...

This paper presents the findings from an explorative study comparing sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) against local realities for young people in Uganda. This was done by analysing statements by Ugandan adolescents extracted from focus group discussions relating to two SRHRs central in this research: (1) the right of young people to complete and accurate information; and (2) the right to self-determination. We found discrepancies between these universally formulated rights...

The Polana High School in Maputo, designed by José João Tinoco and José Forjaz around 1970, is a plain functional building both as regards to the spatial organization of its composing pavilions and as to its construction that is mostly made of exposed reinforced concrete structures and elements. After decades of heavy duty use and an almost absolute lack of maintenance, it recently went through some urgent repair operations. In this sense, it exemplifies what could be today effective...

Existing scholarship on teacher leadership fails to account for the perspectives of African American female teacher leaders. In this article, we profile 3 African American female teacher leaders located at different trajectories on historical and professional timelines. Our analysis is grounded in understandings from the intersection of social justice leadership, critical race theory in education, and narrative inquiry methodology. Examination of the experiences and practices of these...