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This study empirically investigated the envisaged management problems of the Almajiri Model schools education programme. Specifically, it investigated how inadequate public awareness, funding, the dearth of specially trained teachers, inadequate provision of educational facilities and supervisions hinder the effective implementation of the programme for the attainment of the objectives. A ten-item self-designed questionnaire was administered on 1,132 respondents sampled out of the total...
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Education conceptualised in terms of the broader project of socially sustainable development (SSD) makes cooperative learning (CL) valuable in realising the former. Cooperative learning emphasises cooperation as integral to learner success, and because of this CL strategies have been found to be successful in fostering positive intergroup attitudes in classrooms, multicultural and otherwise. Social sustainable development concerns those aspects of human life and human relations which are...
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Purpose This chapter examines the ways in which the provision of training and development for leaders and managers in Cairo underwent profound change during the Arab Spring. It provides an important insight into the capacity of higher education institutes (HEIs) to respond to social and political movements and to the ways in which we might frame education and training.
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Research on workplace bullying (WPB) in occupations, identified teaching as a high risk job. Yet there is a dearth of research on WPB among teachers. The aim of this study is to contribute to the limited body of knowledge on the prevalence of WPB within an international and South African schooling context. This article reports on results from an exploratory study on South African teachers’ exposure to WPB. Self-reporting questionnaires were completed by a convenient, voluntary sample of...
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The Universal Basic Education (UBE) Programme could not have been introduced at a better time than now that the nation is in dire need of all round National Development. The major objective of the UBE programme is the provision of free, universal and compulsory basic education for every Nigerian child aged 6—15 years. However, for the Universal Basic Education programme to be truly free and universal, efforts must be made to check those factors that are known to have hindered the success of...
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In this article, we examine the extant language policies, with particular regard to the Nigerian Child. We take a profound look at the National Policy on Education 1977, the UNICEF Annual Report 1995, the National Policy on Education 1998, the National Policy on Education 2004, the National Policy for Integrated Early Childhood Development in Nigeria 2007, the United Nations Millennium Development Goals, the Nigeria Millennium Development Goals Report 2010, etc. We seek to appraise the...
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This dissertation has primarily tried to analyse the EFL grammar teaching/ learning at secondary-school level, for 3AS-LPh stream (2010-2011). It has equally been targeted towards investigating the real causes behind these learners failure to use their grammatical knowledge to achieve some communicative purposes. In this sense, in this work, the investigator managed to diagnose any variable capable of influencing the grammar learning / teaching sphere, by stressing the many variables that...
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This paper focuses on informal language usage by students of Cross River University of Technology, Calabar, Nigeria. This includes the use of slang words from primarily the substrate and superstrate language of the mother tongue (MT) and Nigerian Pidgin (NP) respectively. Participant observation was used for this work including lectures and other forums. Focus is on the speech discourse of students. The NP in particular is a contact language which has grown in stature due to factors of...
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This research article presents a School Bus Routing Problem of Wood Bridge School Complex,Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana. The problem was formulated as an Integer Programming Model and an Ant Colony Based Meta-heuristic for the Travelling Salesman Problem was used to solve the problem. Data on distances were collected and coded usingMatlab. Our proposed model revealed a tremendous improvement in the total route length by approximately 32%.
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Employing the theory of Community of Practice (CoP), this paper shows how the use of multimedia led a group of pre-service teachers to build a community of practice in the process of completing their individual digital stories for assessment. The paper is focused on a group of diverse pre-service teachers doing their final year at a teacher education institution in Cape Town. The study used a qualitative research approach to collect and analyse data to answer the question: How can the use of...
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The usage of Internet enabled phones has been a 21st century phenomenon that spreads for different purposes and functions. This study looks into the usage and perceived effect implications internet enabled phones have on the academic performance of the tertiary students using University of Ibadan students in Nigeria as a case study. The study was carried out in order to understand and bring to fore if the students’ academic performance is affected due to the time channelled to the phone...
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Howard, C. Tyrone, Black Male(d): Peril and Promise in the Education of African American Males. New York: Teachers College Press., 2014, ISBN 978-0-8077-5491-7, pp.188. Reviewed by Felix Kumah-Abiwu, PhD (fkumahabiwu@gmail.com), Assistant Professor, Department of Pan-African Studies, Kent State University, Ohio.The challenges facing many Black males in America continue to attract the attention of scholars, policy experts and social activists for several decades. Although some achievements...