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At national and international platforms, it has been maintained that TVET provides the needed employable skills and attitudes necessary for effective performance in the workplace. In many nations across the globe, some reform strategies to build on the inherent strength of TVET systems has been vigorously adopted, Nigeria not left behind. This paper explores the national TVET system in response to the emergent global issues on economic productivity. The  following outlines provided a guide...

This is a quantitative study stressing on the need to rebalance research and teaching nexus. Research and teaching are intertwined characteristics of a university. There should be stronger connections between research activities and teaching roles. Effective teaching-research links are not automatic and have to be consciously constructed and implemented. The changing world to be faced by today's students and tomorrows graduates will demand unprecedented skills of intellectual flexibility,...

This study was a quest aimed at evaluating competency enhancement needs of lecturers for quality teaching and learning in South-East universities of Nigeria. Reviewed literatures revealed that there is a steady decline in the quality of university graduates; as such the researchers sought to find out possible inputs that could enhance and guarantee quality instructional delivery in our universities in particular and other tertiary institutions in general. The study adopted the survey...

Several international studies have shown that abuse or mistreatment is a regular phenomenon faced by medical students. However, there is limited information on medical student abuse/mistreatment in Nigeria. The study was therefore conducted to assess the prevalence and patterns of mistreatment experienced by Medical Students in the University of Calabar.A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted among 451 undergraduate medical trainees in the University of Calabar. Systematic sampling...

BackgroundDespite its strategic role in health-care delivery, anesthesia does not attract medical manpower in developing countries, more so among medical trainees. This has resulted in an alarming lack of physician anesthetists. This study aims to determine the rate of selection of anesthesia as a specialty choice and factors that influence medical students when choosing specialties.Patients and methodsA cross-sectional study was conducted on final-year medical students in the University of...

Laxity in managerial competencies due to relevant and appropriate skills has often been linked to small business failure despite its vital contribution to the economic development in South Africa. Skills development is one of the major challenges faced by South Africans, with more than 60% of the labour force being unskilled. This affects large percentage of small businesses around the country with unskilled employees evidenced in the day to day operation of the business. The small...

The study sought to propose a statistical model for the public Secondary School students' retention rates for Kisumu County. We used survival regression analysis in which students were grouped according to the their  performance in KCSE, mean school fee payment, school category, sex, mean age and teacher - student ratio using a desirable survival function. The model was of interest because the study sought to address a life testing experience mostly restricted to survival models and most of...

The present study traces the poor performance of Nigerian students in English to the sole use of British English for teaching and evaluation purposes in the Nigerian ESL classroom thereby neglecting the local Nigerian variations which, as it should be expected, reflect the linguistic and cultural contexts that English must, as a necessary condition, accommodate if it must function effectively in Nigeria's multilingual socio-cultural setting.The study, after presenting some syntactic and...

The objective of this study was to explore how pre—service teacher trainees in Uganda are prepared in order to develop skills for communication with children who are deaf or hard of hearing. A qualitative approach was followed in the study. Data was collected through interviews, focus group discussions, field observations and document study. The main finding is that trainees have an opportunity to develop skills for communication with children who are deaf or hard of hearing from practical...

Technology is the touchstone of development and the field of electronics is considered important in the fast developing society. Through the teaching of electronics in secondary schools, students learn basic skills needed to manufacture, operate, maintain, install and repair electrical and electronic equipment. It therefore means that the transfer of these knowledge, skills and attitudes require instructional resources for effective and efficient skill acquisition. This paper therefore...

This study was embarked on to find out in the opinion of Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) Educators, reasons responsible for youths’ negative perceptions toward TVET with the aim of proffering strategies for positive value re-orientation of the youths on the role of TVET for sustainable development. The study was carried out in Rivers State of Nigeria. Three reserach questions were posed. Questionaire was the instrument used in data collection, while statistical mean was...

Objective: The research was designed to ascertain information on the mothers’ beliefs and obstacles as limitations in promoting exclusive breastfeeding among the working class mothers aimed to: (1) to determine the rate of promotion of the awareness on the benefits of exclusive breastfeeding, (2) to determine the obstacles or barriers to the practice of exclusive breastfeeding, (3) to determine the percentage level of working class who practice exclusive breastfeeding, (4) to assess the...

In this study, the concentrations of five selected heavy metals: Lead (Pb), Nickel (Ni), Mercury (Hg), Cadmium (Cd) and Selenium(Se) were determined in water and tissues of two fish species from Opa reservoir in Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, Nigeria, with a view to assessing its pollution level. Water samples from the reservoir, and the liver, gills and fillet of six specimens of Tilapia zillii (Gervais, 1848) and six specimens of Momyrus rume (Curvier and Valenciennes, 1846)...

Open and Distance Learning (ODL), formerly known as Distance Education (DE) is one of the most rapidly growing fields of education in recent time. Distance education has experienced remarkable growth in national and international scenes since the early 1980s. In spite of recent phenomenal developments in the world of electronic networks, especially the recent global attention to the Internet, which has provided the primary technological thrust, several other emerging technologies have also...

This study examined sex and age differences in social withdrawal among 240 (135 males and 105 females) pre-service teachers in a Nigerian university. A cross-sectional survey was used to collect data on social withdrawal and some demographic factors. Respondents were systematically randomly selected for the study. Demographic characteristics revealed 170 (70.8%) Christians, 47 (19.6%) Muslims and 22 (9.2%) traditionalists. Participants' ages ranged between 15-30 years, with a mean age of 20...