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IntroductionAcross the world, quality assurance is an important system that ensures quality education is offered in schools.It involves instituting checks and balances to make certain that teachers and schools are teaching the prescribed curriculum appropriately and learners' progressive outcomes are appealing (Allais, 2009).It is believed that the overall education system should be supported by educational quality assurance in order to improve the teaching-learning process in general and...

Study from Teachers' Point of View, Nigeria IntroductionUnder-privileged females with poor financial and educational background are suffering from an undesirable phenomenon of teenage pregnancy.Now-a-days it has become a problematic issue for many developing countries.For its negative consequences first world to third world countries are facing this problem severely (Grunseit, 2007).Many stakeholders of the society like families, educators, health care professionals, and the government are...

Nigeria 1. IntroductionA student's family background to a large extent determines the successes and academic achievement in every sphere of school life.The family is an essential factor for human's whole-being, everything about a man; background and attitude.All of man's achievements, honour and dignity, relies on the structure of the family (Egbe, 2013).Yara and Tunde-Yara (2010), assert that, academic achievement can be influenced by many factors, but the impact family relationships play...

Study 1. IntroductionMusic teaching in Kenya today has been influenced by various factors.These include; cultural factors, the coming of the missionaries and colonial factors (Akuno, 2005).In the early days, music as a subject was offered in selected schools that were economically advantaged with qualified staff and appropriate equipment.However, by 1985, music in Kenya was offered as an examinable subject and this gave way a number of challenges including negative attitude toward the...

IntroductionTrading in investment started in the 1800s whereby mutual funds flourished in Great Britain and in the United States.This trade later spread to other continents and countries around the world (Anderson, Born and Schnusenberg, (2010).Securities exchanges provide avenues where financial securities can be traded.Companies in turn are able to raise funds by trading their securities in the exchange market.Carmichael and Pomerleano (2002) agree that capital markets aid in marshalling...

Teaching and learning mathematics in South Africa (SA) is characterised by serious challenges because the pass rate in Mathematics is always below the expected level. The introduction of the Curriculum Assessment Policy Statement (CAPS) ushered in new hope that the situation would improve. However, teachers still encounter challenges when they use English as the medium of instruction because learners fail to comprehend the challenging mathematical concepts presented to them in a language...

IntroductionIn most Kenyan schools today, the students are drilled to pass examinations as this is the only criterion for selection into jobs, courses of further studies or vocational training.It is therefore not surprising that there are often cases of cheating in examinations.Academic performance has been chronically poor in some Public Mixed Say Secondary Schools in Imenti Central Sub-county, Meru County, Kenya as per the KCSE.Despite the Government's effort to improve quality of...

Effective OBT is part and parcel of quality MET provided by any maritime institute.To know the current status of the effectiveness of the OBT in Tanzania, the present study applies Extended DEMATEL Model to evaluate the challenges facing OBT in Tanzania.We firstly use expert opinions to identify the challenges and we then apply the Evaluation Model to rank the challenges facing OBT in Tanzania.The most prevalent challenges that are critical for effective OBT in Tanzania are identified and...

This study’s main focus was to investigate how gender and the work environment influence the job satisfaction of public secondary school teachers in the Central region of Botswana. Maslow’s theory of needs was used for the study. This study used quantitative analysis and targeted a population of 680 teachers from ten public secondary schools in the Central Region of Botswana. The sample of the study consisted of thirty-two percent of the targeted population which involved 213 teacher...

Diversity in education is not about different races only; in the South African context it also refers, for instance, to types of schools or different learning styles. Inclusivity in education thus refers to all learners, regardless of their abilities, being noticed and encouraged to share and learn in the same space. However, the South African education system is still struggling to ensure that learners with disabilities, especially those with visual impairment, are fully catered for in...

The financing of higher education through student loan schemes is a recent phenomenon in Uganda. It constitutes a major change in the financing of higher education in the country and, naturally, it has not been without controversy. Its processes have posed challenges to both its beneficiaries and implementers. For instance, the loan policy’s sustainability is yet to be guaranteed. It is with this understanding that this paper discusses how application of the ADKAR change management model can...

Non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) has become an increasingly worrying phenomenon among adolescents and young adults. This study sought to address the paucity of data about the prevalence, nature, and functions of NSSI in the South African context. The Inventory of Statements about Self-harm and the Beck Depression Inventory-II were administered to 623 high school and university students recruited for the study. The results indicate an NSSI prevalence rate of 56.2% of the sample, with...

The introduction of students' management information system in an educational institution requires careful planning, like any powerful tool, can do much harm as good.Therefore there is need to ensure that the adoption of SMIS in schools is used for enhancement of quality of management of students data, such as; registering students in courses, documenting grading, transcripts production, students examination results, other assessment scores, building students schedules, tracking students...

This study determined the perception of teachers regarding the level of principals' ethical leadership behaviours in state government owned secondary schools in Anambra State.The study was guided by 4 research questions.The population consisted of 6,328 teachers in the 257-state owned government public secondary schools in the State.A sample of 672 teachers was drawn using multi-stage sampling procedure.Data were collected using Ethical Leadership Scale (ELS) which was adapted from Yilmaz...

IntroductionGuidance and counseling programs in secondary schools have been introduced to assist students overcome challenges they experience at home and at school.Nziramasanga (1999) states that because of many pressures imposed on the family, parents tend to have little time with their children to give them the necessary guidance.Guidance and counseling is a process of helping individuals discover and develop their educational, vocational and psychological potentialities and achieve some...

Discipline is essential to learning, but in culturally diverse groups it could become a challenge for teachers.Positive discipline, respect for human rights and the creation of a sense of belonging promotes culturally responsive and disciplined learners.This study investigated the social and cultural contexts of discipline in early grade South African classrooms from the perspective of the teachers.Nine teachers were interviewed through semi-structured interviews regarding their disciplinary...

Violence in Algerian society remains a serious social evil and a difficult reality that has attracted the attention of scholars, academicians and researchers from different Algerian towns. The focus of different initial studies performed, mainly focused on the responsibility of the most important institutions concerned with the social up growing and education, namely the family and the school towards the birth of violence and its eradication. Indeed, in the case one of these crucial...

Schistosomiasis is a public health problem in Senegal with unevenly distributed prevalence. The purpose of this study was to assess the prevalence and intensity of Schistosoma haematobium and Schistosoma mansoni infections among primary school children in eight districts of Senegal. A cross-sectional survey including school children aged from 7 to 13 years were included and was conducted in 3 ecological areas. Urine and stool samples were collected from for detection of S. mansoni and S....