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Introduction: Students living with epilepsy still find themselves confronted with social barriers that prevent them from academic achievements. Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate knowledge and attitudes of school teachers and to determine the factors associated with good knowledge and positive attitude among nursery, primary and secondary school teachers in Kano, Northwestern Nigeria.

The general objective of the study was to evaluate the perspectives, conceptions and misconceptions of students on Industrial Attachment. The study employed the descriptive research design. In all one hundred and seventy-one (171) students participated in the study. Questionnaire was the main instruments for data collection. Descriptive statistics and inferential statistics including chi-square tests and correlation analysis were used to ascertain the associations and relationships between...

The study presents evaluation of students’ utilization of koforidua Polytechnic library information resources.  3,120 copies of the research questionnaire were administered to registered Business Studies student of the institution. A total of 3000 were retrieved representing 96.1% return rate. Findings indicated that 82.0% of the respondents are aware of the availability of library resources; 58.6% make effective use of the resources, while 61.4% had difficulty retrieving materials from...

Professional development is a sine-qua-non to increasing teachers’ skills and abilities in curriculum implementation. Yet, in recent times, policy makers, school heads and teachers have given it little attention. This study therefore focuses on investigating the impact of teachers’ participation in professional programmes on curriculum implementation at the SHS. The research adopted the concurrent mixed approach in documenting facts about teachers’ professional development and...

Major criteria includedParoxysmal nocturnal dyspnoea, raised jugular venous pressure, clinical cardiomegaly, basal crepitations, S3 gallop, clinical acute pulmonary oedema, pulmonary upper lobe blood diversion on chest X-ray (or pulmonary oedema on chest X-ray). Minor criteria includedTachycardia, orthopnoea, exertional dyspnoea,

Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection is a global public health issue and a major problem in sub-Saharan Africa.This study was a descriptive cross-sectional study designed to determine the prevalence of cardiovascular abnormalities in HIV positive patients using echocardiography.The study was carried out at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH), Kumasi, Ghana.Treatment naïve HIV positive patients aged between 16 and 82 years were recruited from the HIV clinic using simple random...

The purpose of the study was to assess the extent to which teachers in the Brong Ahafo Region of Ghana employed instructional practices that conformed to the Life Themes pedagogy in their teaching of Christian Religious Studies (CRS). The outcome of the study would determine whether or not teachers related the teaching of Religion to the existential experiences of learners. This will provide guidance for policy makers and teachers on the need for making students’ real life experiences the...

Introduction: Health care financing is the mobilization of funds for health care services. This study determined the various sources of health care financing among the patients on admission at the Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital (ABUTH), Shika-Zaria in 2011 and the effects of the medical bills on the patients and their family members. Methodology: A multi-staged sampling technique was used to select 100 clients for the study. The clients were stratified into the four major wards of...

This paper emphasises properly designed and well implemented Entrepreneurship Education as the solution to youth unemployment problem in Nigeria. Youth unemployment is potentially dangerous as it sends disturbing signal to all segments of the Nigerian Society. The rate of youth unemployment in Nigeria is high, even at the period of economic normalcy i.e. the oil boom of the 1970s (6.2%); 1980s (9.8%) and the 1990s (11.5%). To reduce unemployment, the paper suggests among others, the...

A competently trained public health workforce that can operate multidisease surveillance and response systems is required for timely detection and response to public health emergencies. The backbone of any disease control is a robust surveillance system that is interlinked with timely quality response[1, 2]. The traditional approaches of training health care workers particularly public health workers have emphasized knowledge acquisition without commensurate competency acquisition;...

A competently trained public health workforce that can operate multi-disease surveillance and response systems is required for timely detection and response to public health emergencies. The backbone of any disease control is a robust surveillance system that is interlinked with timely quality response. The traditional approaches of training health care workers particularly public health workers have emphasized knowledge acquisition without commensurate competency acquisition ; experiential...

A competently trained public health workforce that can operate multi-disease surveillance and response systems is required for timely detection and response to public health emergencies. The backbone of any disease control is a robust surveillance system that is interlinked with timely quality response. The traditional approaches of training health care workers particularly public health workers have emphasized knowledge acquisition without commensurate competency acquisition ; experiential...

It is typical of universities to regularly overhaul the curriculum of accounting degree programmes both at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels of study. Professional accountancy bodies also review their syllabus over time. In addition, it is common practice by professional accounting institutes, to grant exemptions to holders of accounting degrees, in writing professional exams. As such, it becomes intellectually stimulating to examine, on one hand, the cause(s) of regular curriculum...

Supervision of instruction has been a neglected aspect of school management in Nigeria. Instructional supervision, if properly organized and executed can lead to positive improvement in the achievement of effective learning in our schools and consequently lead to rising standard in educational system. Teachers are identified as individuals who have to develop professionally because they need the support of colleagues whose professional development is greater. The principal possesses greater...

The study reported survey results that revealed that reading for fun; reading in the library; and reading books with color and illustrations were among factors that affect ed reading habit among students. The survey also showed that students were not favorably disposed to reading at home and that some of them were forced to read by their parents. The study further revealed that almost all the respondents owned a mobile phone. The researchers recommend that software applications and teaching...

School health services (SHS) have been shown to be suboptimal in Nigeria. The paucity of data on the status of SHS in Sagamu makes it even more challenging for instituting corrective action.To evaluate SHS in public and private schools in Sagamu.This was a cross-sectional study carried out on private and public nursery/primary and secondary schools in Sagamu, Ogun State.A total of 91 schools, randomly selected from 182 available, comprising 53 private nursery/primary schools, 22 public...

This paper is part of the study which focuses on the contribution of entrepreneurship education to the development of entrepreneurial self-efficacy and intentions among university students in Uganda. The paper explores the perceived effectiveness of methods of teaching entrepreneurship courses from the student’s perspective of entrepreneurial self-efficacy and intentions. This study was motivated by the public concern that many students who study entrepreneurship at the universities in...