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This study was carried out to discern the relative effectiveness of open distance instruction delivery mode as compared to conventional (face-to-face) instruction delivery mode by understudying the academic performance of students enrolled in the University of Abuja, (a dual-mode university in Nigeria) from 2004-2008. Using the descriptive survey research method, students’ academic performance records for four academic sessions were collected and analyzed using mean scores, standard...

The paper was conducted in order to ascertain how the use of internet can be a positive catalyst to learning and research to students of library and information sciences ATBU, Bauchi. Cross sectional survey design was used using structured questionnaire and administered for data collection. The questionnaire was designed, keeping in view the objectives of the study. The target populations for the study were male and female students of library and information sciences. Random sampling...

This paper examined the needs to revitalize instructional leadership of primary and junior secondary schools headteachers in Nigeria, for successful implementation of the Universal Basic Education (UBE) Programme. Instructional leadership, as viewed in the paper, has to do with creating a school culture that makes students’ learning a priority and provides the resources necessary to support teachers’ efforts to improve students’ learning. The need for revitalization of instructional...

BJU InternationalVolume 116, Issue 3 p. 316-318 Comment Current challenges to urological training in sub-Saharan Africa Nicholas J. Campain, Corresponding Author Nicholas J. Campain Exeter Surgical Health Services Research Unit – Urology, Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust, Exeter, Devon, UK Correspondence: Nicholas J. Campain, Exeter Surgical Health Services Research Unit – Urology, Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust, Barrack Road, Exeter, Devon EX2 5DW, UK. e-mail: [email...

The constitutional provisions for education and the place of educational financing, all over the world, fall within the framework of the legal order.In Nigeria, financing of higher education has evoked dramatic, as well as ideological and political confrontations in the last two decades or so.The rationale sustaining this argument is compelling.A quality education, beginning with primary education, is fundamental to endow individuals with the capacity to successfully pursue their private...

The study investigated the provision and utilization of laboratory facilities as a function of students’ performance in practical biology among the senior secondary schools in Gombe State. Three hundred and seventeen (317) SS III students and their biology teachers were used as sample for the study. Three instruments, Biology Laboratory Facilities Inventory, Biology Laboratory Facilities Utilization Scale and the Students’ Test of Practical Biology were used to collect data. The data...

Much research discusses the link between educational attainment and various quality-of-life-indicators. Therefore, it is important to investigate tools that enhance learning as well as barriers that prevent from having access to these tools. At higher levels of income and education, differences in Internet access or computer ownership between ethnic groups are minimal. There is concern about whether or not computers will displace authentic childhood learning experiences. The measured...

This is a discussion on Adult Education programmes and National Transformation in Nigeria. The study was necessitated by observing the various efforts made by the Nigerian government, local and international interventions from 1980s to date and the present literacy rate and the present level of development in Nigeria. Adult education connotes a desirable change that can improve the role of adult population in their community and national development. It is not the children, but the adults...

This study examines the encounter of Somali parents with their children’s teachers and how these relations “affect” their possibility of supporting their children’s attaining a successful school experience. The study is inspired by and combines the insight and concept of social capital developed by Coleman and Bourdieu. The parents realize that they lack the knowledge and expertise to support their children in their educational endeavor and have neither the material nor ideational support to...

Diverse education professionals learned about African cultures in a workshop experience by making African masks using authentic symbolism. Analysis of reflections to evaluate the workshop for applicability to participants with and without African heritage showed that both groups expanded their cultural knowledge of traditional African ethnic groups. Those participants with African heritage noted valuing of women while those without African heritage expressed appreciation for African culture,...

This study was designed to assess undergraduate students’ metacognitive skill for e-Learning. It adopted a descriptive survey approach to determine the extent that undergraduate students in Nigeria deploy metacognitive skills for e-learning. Two research questions and two null hypotheses were stated to guide the study. Three institutions in Niger state were purposively selected and a total of 287 students were used for the study. The Metacognitive Skill f o r E-learning Questionnaire (MSELQ)...

Abstract Global warming has become one of the major challenges in maintaining global food security. This paper reviews the impacts of climate change on fourteen strategic crops for eight sub‐Saharan Africa countries. Climate change is projected to increase median temperature by 1.4–5.5°C and median precipitation by −2% to 20% by the end of the 21st century. However, large levels of uncertainty exist with temporal and spatial variability of rainfall events. The impact of climate change on...

Abstract Global warming has become one of the major challenges in maintaining global food security. This paper reviews the impacts of climate change on fourteen strategic crops for eight sub‐Saharan Africa countries. Climate change is projected to increase median temperature by 1.4–5.5°C and median precipitation by −2% to 20% by the end of the 21st century. However, large levels of uncertainty exist with temporal and spatial variability of rainfall events. The impact of climate change on...

Abstract Global warming has become one of the major challenges in maintaining global food security. This paper reviews the impacts of climate change on fourteen strategic crops for eight sub‐Saharan Africa countries. Climate change is projected to increase median temperature by 1.4–5.5°C and median precipitation by −2% to 20% by the end of the 21st century. However, large levels of uncertainty exist with temporal and spatial variability of rainfall events. The impact of climate change on...

Abstract Global warming has become one of the major challenges in maintaining global food security. This paper reviews the impacts of climate change on fourteen strategic crops for eight sub‐Saharan Africa countries. Climate change is projected to increase median temperature by 1.4–5.5°C and median precipitation by −2% to 20% by the end of the 21st century. However, large levels of uncertainty exist with temporal and spatial variability of rainfall events. The impact of climate change on...

Abstract Global warming has become one of the major challenges in maintaining global food security. This paper reviews the impacts of climate change on fourteen strategic crops for eight sub‐Saharan Africa countries. Climate change is projected to increase median temperature by 1.4–5.5°C and median precipitation by −2% to 20% by the end of the 21st century. However, large levels of uncertainty exist with temporal and spatial variability of rainfall events. The impact of climate change on...

This study identified the problems perverting management education in Nigeria as rooted in the many inadequacies, particularly in educational policies, curricula, facilities, balance between education levels, states, ethnicity, sexes, arts and sciences, quantity and quality of education, occupations, and professions.There is also a serious problem of shortage of qualified teachers for the growing national education system.A major objective of this study is to ascertain models, theories and...