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Universities all over the world are realigning themselves with service quality and customer orientated practices. To increase student intake universities are now using their excellence in service quality as a competitive advantage to increase their share of local and international student segments. To improve service quality within a university and create a competitive advantage universities have to be more market driven. Universities have to tailor their service offerings to cater to...

The discontinuation of higher grade (HG) and standard grade (SG) subjects resulted in the abolishment of HG and SG subject choice opportunities for learners.This effected the subject combination possibilities of learners.One of the effects was the introduction of Mathematical Literacy for learners, not equipped enough to cope with Mathematics as such.The same phenomena was evident in other subjects such as Accounting where learners opted for "easier" subjects such as "learning subjects"...

This article explores the role of an Academic Advising programme based on personal exchanges between academic staff member and students in enhancing the latter's academic success.The contribution focuses specifically on the relevance of "Academic Advising" as an innovative strategy for boosting the academic performance of extended diploma programme students.This strategy responds to the imperative to design appropriate interventions to effectively assist with increasing the academic success...

This article discusses the findings of a study conducted in Gauteng, South Africa.This qualitative study examined principals' and educators' notions in understanding school-based violence and school safety.Individual and focus group interviews were utilised to collect data from the school management teams (SMTs) that included school governing bodies (parent component).Among the major findings of the study, was that principals and educators have a diverse understanding and perception of the...

Sub-Saharan Africa has predominantly rural populations unable to offer children sustainable access to early literacy and childhood care and education. Children's literacy development starts very early in life through participation and experiences in the home and preschool. My research in rural Zimbabwe, Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania shows that the transition from home to school is compromised by acute barriers such as lack of parental participation, lack of encouragement and support from...

The purpose of the study is to determine the prevalence of drug use among first year Faculty of Social Sciences students at Great Zimbabwe University. An explanatory sequential design was used in the study. The total sample size of 157 students (82 males, 75 females) volunteered. 72 students were from the department of Human Resources Management, 66 from Sociology and 19 from Psychology. Results show that students drank alcohol as their drug of choice and prevalence of beer drinking started...

The article focuses on challenges faced by persons with disabilities (PWDs) in accessing employment in Uganda. Topics discussed include policies implemented by the Ugandan government in reducing disability discrimination in the workplace and providing equal opportunities, the challenges of social and economic development faced by PWDs in Uganda, and issues dealing with the lack of unemployment benefits in Uganda. It mentions United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

The exponential growth in technology has resulted in African nations acquiring the technologies needed for their development, and providing the necessary skills to their operators. Deployment of the technologies requires an appreciation, and a good understanding of the ambient conditions. This is particularly necessary for wireless applications. Research relating to these technologies is undertaken by students and faculty members at universities and colleges. This paper discusses judicious...

In more recent times, education and training in public administration have become very important because the public service is expected by the citizens to provide value for money spent. In developing countries, and especially in Africa, in view of the numerous developmental challenges, the call for effective public administration education and training has been extremely intensified. Consequently, there is the need to examine what governments are doing in this regard and whether initiatives...

AbstractThis paper focuses on Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in pharmaceutical product marketing and its implication for education and policy. Data for the study was obtained from 76 pharmaceutical firms in southwest Nigeria which comprised of about 95% of the pharmaceutical companies that were into manufacturing of drugs in Nigeria. The categories of firms surveyed include retail pharmacy, combination of wholesale and retail pharmacy, wholesale pharmacy, and manufacturing...

Provision of quality education, no doubt, is one of the most important investments that a country can make.Not only does it fulfill people's right to knowledge, it is one of the most powerful ways of accelerating economic growth, reducing poverty, unemployment, child mortality and improves maternal health.The Millennium Development Goals (MDGS) are laudable and very worthy to be pursued so as to catalyze the needed growth and development we so crave for in Nigeria.It is obvious that the...

There has been limited effort to explore young people's perceptions about mental illness in Uganda. For mental health programs targeting young people to succeed, it is important to incorporate their understanding of mental illness, their perceptions about causes of mental illness and their attitudes about mentally ill people. The objective of this study was to explore the mental health of young people in secondary schools in Northern and Central Uganda.This was a qualitative study where 24...

To evaluate the self-reported oral health attitudes and behaviour among the clinical dental students and to compare the influence of clinical experience on oral health attitudes and behaviour among dental students at the different clinical years in the University of Benin using the modified Hiroshima University Dental Behavior Inventory (HU-DBI).The study involved 156 clinical dental students from the University of Benin, Benin City, Nigeria. Demographic data were obtained for age and gender...

IntroductionIn Nigeria, school administrators are appointed into principalship without a well-regulated procedure or plan which may be needed for quality and effective school leadership. This educational situation calls for a policy model for appointing school principals during selection process. argument for this policy analysis model is persistent poor academic performance of secondary school students in external examinations which can be influenced by quality of school leadership. This...

In this paper, we compared the levels of awareness, knowledge and attitudes (AKA) about environmental pollution of secondary school students from two South African provinces. The purpose was to determine the levels of AKA between students living under different environmental conditions. These two groups were students from a coal-mining province (Mpumalanga) and those from a non-coal-mining province (Gauteng). Participants were 753 purposively selected students from Grades 8 to 12 from the...