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The aim of this study was to investigate teachers' perceptions of the impact of Continuing Professional Development on promoting quality teaching and learning.This study adopted a mixed method approach using both quantitative and qualitative research designs.Closed-ended self-administered questionnaires and interview schedule were used to collect data.Two hundred teachers were sampled through simple random sampling procedure to complete the questionnaires, while ten teachers participated in...

The aim of this study was to investigate teachers' perceptions of the impact of Continuing Professional Development on promoting quality teaching and learning.This study adopted a mixed method approach using both quantitative and qualitative research designs.Closed-ended self-administered questionnaires and interview schedule were used to collect data.Two hundred teachers were sampled through simple random sampling procedure to complete the questionnaires, while ten teachers participated in...

During early childhood, the foundations for emotional, social and spiritual well being of children with learning disabilities (CWLD) are laid.The CWLD emotional well being is influenced by all the experiences they go through.It is essential to provide warm, trusting relationships, predictable and safe environment, affirmation and respect for all aspects of children's emotional, physical, social, cognitive and linguistic well being of CWLD.There is need to actively seek to remove the barriers...

Inevitably, life in the twenty-first century globalised world brings people into contact with "others".Through these contacts, the need for interactions demands that these people find different ways of understanding one another to generate knowledge.In order for them to achieve this objective, they need a strong and coherent medium.First additional language education has been developed in South Africa to unravel as well as address challenges posed to competence in intercultural...

The aim of this study was to investigate teachers' perceptions of the impact of Continuing Professional Development on promoting quality teaching and learning.This study adopted a mixed method approach using both quantitative and qualitative research designs.Closed-ended self-administered questionnaires and interview schedule were used to collect data.Two hundred teachers were sampled through simple random sampling procedure to complete the questionnaires, while ten teachers participated in...

The aim of this study was to investigate teachers' perceptions of the impact of Continuing Professional Development on promoting quality teaching and learning.This study adopted a mixed method approach using both quantitative and qualitative research designs.Closed-ended self-administered questionnaires and interview schedule were used to collect data.Two hundred teachers were sampled through simple random sampling procedure to complete the questionnaires, while ten teachers participated in...

Inevitably, life in the twenty-first century globalised world brings people into contact with "others".Through these contacts, the need for interactions demands that these people find different ways of understanding one another to generate knowledge.In order for them to achieve this objective, they need a strong and coherent medium.First additional language education has been developed in South Africa to unravel as well as address challenges posed to competence in intercultural...

Inevitably, life in the twenty-first century globalised world brings people into contact with "others".Through these contacts, the need for interactions demands that these people find different ways of understanding one another to generate knowledge.In order for them to achieve this objective, they need a strong and coherent medium.First additional language education has been developed in South Africa to unravel as well as address challenges posed to competence in intercultural...

The study investigated the constraints facing the teaching of entrepreneurship education in colleges of education inSouth South Nigeria. A research question was raised and three hypotheses were formulated for the study. Adescriptive survey design was used for the study. The population which also served as sample comprised 206Business Education lecturers. The researcher used a questionnaire which has 24 items. The content and face of theinstrument was validated by experts in business...

Inevitably, life in the twenty-first century globalised world brings people into contact with "others".Through these contacts, the need for interactions demands that these people find different ways of understanding one another to generate knowledge.In order for them to achieve this objective, they need a strong and coherent medium.First additional language education has been developed in South Africa to unravel as well as address challenges posed to competence in intercultural...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the nature and extent of management development and training in Palestinian telecommunication organizations using a basic trichotomous (three-stage) model: needs assessment, training development, and evaluation. Design/methodology/approach – A survey questionnaires supported by semi-structured interviews was conducted to capture and corroborate the issues raised by middle and senior managers. Subsequently, the valid data were analysed using...

The aim of this study was to investigate teachers' perceptions of the impact of Continuing Professional Development on promoting quality teaching and learning.This study adopted a mixed method approach using both quantitative and qualitative research designs.Closed-ended self-administered questionnaires and interview schedule were used to collect data.Two hundred teachers were sampled through simple random sampling procedure to complete the questionnaires, while ten teachers participated in...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to study the impact of the Arab Spring on public administration programs in Egypt, with a special focus on executive education programs. Design/methodology/approach – The study draws on stakeholder analysis, and uses both primary and secondary data. Findings – The author describes the impact of the Arab Spring on executive education in Egypt and methods of dealing with the crises. Research limitations/implications – Egypt is still in a phase of...

There are indeed glaring gender disparities in representation at all levels of education administration in Kenya. It is worth noting that women the world over are still grappling with leadership both in education and the corporate world even in the 21st century. Since independence, there has been gross under representation of women in Kenya in both political and other leadership spheres.

This Innovative Programme is based on proper formation and efficient management of school based peer counseling clubs as the best way of reducing indiscipline and also restoring peace among pupils in secondary schools.

Abstract HIV/AIDS has become a global scourge affecting mainly young people. Sexual behavior change remains the most effective way of preventing further spread. The aim of this study is to assess the knowledge, perception and practice of safe lifestyles towards prevention of HIV infection among students of a tertiary educational institution in Abakaliki, south eastern, Nigeria. A cross sectional descriptive study was carried out, and participants were selected using multistage sampling...

Background: Cryptorchidism is one of the most common urogenital abnormalities in male children. Delayed diagnosis and treatment of cryptorchidism lead to complications such as infertility, malignancy and testis torsion.Objective: To determine the cause of delayed presentation, complications recorded, the surgical treatment offered in a developing country.Methods:A retrospective review of patients’ records from December 2012 to December 2014 was carried out. Sixty one patients presented to...

Early growth and health of HIV-exposed, uninfected (HEU) children is poorer than that of their HIV-unexposed, uninfected (HUU) counterparts but there is little information about longer term effects of early HIV exposure. We previously recruited two cohorts of HEU and HUU Zambian infants and documented the poorer infant growth and health of the HEU compared to the HUU children. We followed up HEU and HUU children from these cohorts when they were school-aged and compared their growth, health,...