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Education has been seen as an indispensable process of cognitive, affective and psychomotor development. However, there have been a drastic fall in the standard of education in Ekiti state known as “fountain of knowledge” and Nigeria at large. The way and manner in which the school as well as the classrooms are being managed determines the quality of students produced in the school system. This exploratory paper therefore examines the trends in the finance of education sector as well as the...

The paper investigated the effect of teacher self-efficacy enhancement and school location on students’ achievement in Economics in Senior Secondary School in Ibadan Metropolis of Oyo State, Nigeria. Three hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance. Multi-stage sampling technique was adopted in the study. Four Local Government Areas (two urban and two rural) out of the eleven Local Government Area Councils in Ibadan were randomly selected. Sixty schools (30 in urban and 30 in...

The poor educational achievement among students in public primary and secondary schools across the country has raised concern as to the factors responsible. Even though some parents prefer to put their wards in expensive private primary and secondary schools as panacea to poor outcomes, a great proportion of Nigerian parents still have their children attending public schools. The advent of civilian democratic government at various levels of governance since 1999 has opened up debate on the...

The purpose of the article was to assess the effectiveness of the work-preparedness program (WPP) in higher education, using the case of Walter Sisulu University (WSU) in South Africa. Higher education institutions in South Africa and abroad are under increasing pressure to balance the theory base learning for degree programmes with the practical skills desired by the industry. One of the strategies used to achieve this is making work-integrated learning (WIL) a compulsory component of their...

The study investigated teacher experiences regarding their level of training to enable them to implement Performance Management System (PMS) in Zimbabwe. Interest in the system had been evoked by the lack of the compatibility between policy expectation and implementation process. Focus was on Gweru and Gokwe South districts o f the Midlands Province. Participants in the study were 5,2% o f the Primary teachers and 3,5% of the secondary school teachers randomly drawn from the two Districts...

This study investigated the challenges in the implementation of Zimbabwe’s localised Advanced Level Geography syllabus. The Post-positivist framework underpinned the concurrent triangulated mixed methods design of this study. Observation and content analysis triangulated data gained from questionnaires and interviews. The population comprised of nineteen Advanced Level Geography schools in Gweru district offering the localised Advanced Level Geography syllabus, three hundred former...

This study focused on investigating the factors that affect the entrepreneurial intention of final year undergraduate students at a South African university. It aimed to achieve the following objectives, (1) to assess the entrepreneurial intention of final year university students, (2) to investigate the effect of psychological and contextual factors on entrepreneurial intention of final year university students and (3) to examine if there is a gender difference in the effect of...

Vulvovaginal candidiasis (VVC) remains a common problem worldwide and the role of douching as a predisposing factor is unclear.This study was undertaken to highlight the prevalence and predisposing factors of VVC in North-west Nigeria.This was a prospective study done at Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital (AKTH), North-west. AKTH is a 500-bed tertiary hospital located in Kano, the most populous state in Nigeria. Ethical clearance was obtained. Three hundred patients with VVC were recruited from...

Interrupting anti-retroviral therapy (ART) for any number of reasons is an indication of a compromised adherence to ART. Several factors, including the pill burden from other drugs used in treating co-infections in children with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), may influence ART adherence. The aim of this study was to identify the factors associated with ART interruption in HIV-1-infected children.A retrospective cohort study analysing data on 580 children consecutively enrolled on ART...

Quality education is the question of many countries.Students' achievement were a measure of teaching-learning process.Scholars suggested that regardless of the subject nature, many factors affect students' achievements in each school subject.This study is an attempt to determine factors influencing academic achievements of grade 8, 10 and 12 students in Debre Tabor Town (DT) and Bahir Dar Town (BDT) in 2013-2014 academic year with achievements variations occurred in student, class and school...

Introduction: Hypothermia is highly prevalent and a major contributor of neonatal morbidity and mortality, even in warmer tropical countries. Neonatal hypothermia is increasingly recognized as a risk factor for new-born survival in Ethiopia. It is crucial and effective to reduce perinatal and neonatal morbidity and mortality. The aim of the study was to assess the proportion of neonatal hypothermia and associated factors among new-borns at Gondar University Teaching and Referral Hospital,...

This work proposes initially to identify the initial conceptions of Moroccan students in the first year of secondary college about the notion of earthquakes. The used methodology is based on a questionnaire addressed to students of life science and Earth in Meknes city, before any official teaching about the said phenomenon. The obtained results showed that despite the non-responses, the majority of respondents have less accurate initial conceptions for earthquakes notion, and does not...

Information Technology (IT) has added value to effective research productivity in Nigeria tertiary institutions and colleges. This study employed a survey research method on the availability and use of IT facilities for undergraduate  students’ research work in five schools of Federal College of Education, Obudu, Cross River State. The respondents were two hundred students who were randomly selected from the five schools of the college. A Questionnaire method was used for data collection....

This study aimed to evaluate the current practices in relation to best practice criteria and make recommendations for improvements to noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL) awareness training in the South African mining industry. A survey tool based on findings of a literature review on best practice for NIHL awareness training was developed for use in interviews, with managers responsible for NIHL awareness training at the mines. Thirty managers were interviewed in the survey at mines...

Copyright: 2015. SA ePublications. Due to copyright restrictions, the attached PDF file only contains the abstract of the full text item. For access to the full text item, please consult the publisher's website. The definitive version of the work is published in the Occupational Health Southern Africa, Vol 21(1), pp. 11-17

The Ghana Education Service (GES) is facing challenges in school leadership and hence a lot of criticisms on basic school performances. The issue is whether school leadership relates to school performances and that there is the need for transformation leadership. The purpose of this study was to discuss self-reported leadership practices inventories (LPI) of graduate students to highlight their transformational school leadership potentials. The study participants were conveniently sampled...

This study is aims at investigating the relationship between the expansion of secondary Technical Education on the acquisition of technical skills by students.  Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) has been expanding quantitatively yearly without paying enough attention to its adverse effect on quality and the acquisition of the essential practical skills required by students in Cameroon. This study was guided by three research questions and hypotheses.  The sample was 40...

The study assesses the effects of climate change on police operation in Delta state.To achieve this climate, data were extracted from the archives of the Nigerian Meteorological Agency and the Met Station of the Department of Geography Delta State University Abraka, and police operation data were collected from the archive of the police diary at the state police headquarter.The results showed an evidence of climate change in delta state with a rise of 3˚C in temperature, and decadal rainfall...

The study examines the economic impact of climate change.This is done through a field survey design which involves survey of marketers in Port Harcourt with the aid of archival data from Port Harcourt.Climate data were collected from the archives of Nigeria Meteorological Agency from 1950 to 2015 based on the availability of data.And data on prices and quantity of umbrella, cement, ice cream, cream, palm oil, rubber sander, cold sachet water sold, etc. were extracted from the traders'...