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Education is the bedrock of every nation and no aspect as well as level of it ought to be neglected so as to engender all round national development. Polytechnic Education in Nigeria today offers about 70% of technological programmes which are great veritable tools for nation building and overall development of our country Nigeria. On the contrary Polytechnic Education over the years had suffered serious neglect and great discrimination against its graduates as well as certificate, Higher...

Many poor people living in Africa depend on their small farms for survival. There has been a lot of interest in trying to reduce poverty in the region by supporting these farmers to produce more and make a profit from their farms. Such interventions include training farmers and introducing them to new farming techniques and products, such as new crop types or fertilisers. Although a substantial amount of money has been invested in these approaches by governments and international donors, the...

Compared to the general population, higher levels of substance use are generally considered a normalised part of student t life. This contribution adds to the limited body of knowledge on students' substance use patterns in South African contexts, specifically insofar as alcohol, tobacco, cannabis, hard drugs and prescription medication are concerned. Voluntary selection techniques were followed to gather data by means of a self-administered survey from 818 students. The use of alcohol and...

The study focused on the stories of four Mathematics teachers in a primary school to determine how their past experiences and their present school context influenced their teacher identity. It was part of a larger study which focused on collaborative learning in the school. Each of the four narratives in the narrative enquiry revealed a unique personification of a teacher's story, based on past personal and professional experiences and the present school context in which the teacher worked....

This study explored the developmental level of a professional learning community (PLC) in which the primary school studied operated. A quantitative research design determined the views of staff members regarding the nature of a PLC in the school. The study used the five characteristics of the Professional Learning Community Assessment instrument to determine how these characteristics were realised in the school: (1) leadership; (2) a shared vision and values; (3) collective learning; (4)...

In most places around the world girls are now just as likely to be enrolled in primary school as boys. This is however not the case for girls in sub-Saharan African nations where they remain behind especially at the secondary level. In West Nile Uganda women’s rates of schooling are far below the national average. For every ten male secondary students enrolled six female students are enrolled. ICRWs report Girls Are Live Leaves on the Wind examines the factors that contribute to girls ages...

Author(s): Strong, Krystal | Advisor(s): Ferme, Mariane | Abstract: This dissertation is an ethnographic investigation of experimental forms of political practice among Nigerian university students. With limited avenues for participation in Nigeria’s turbulent democracy, students imagine the campus and its urban environs as “political training grounds” which offer opportunities for political leadership—and aspirations to this effect—that are only newly available in the post-military era...

Since the early 1950s, only four funding formulate have been used for public funding of higher education institutions in South Africa. From the introduction of the Holloway formula in 1953 to the current New Funding Framework (NFF), implemented in 2004, the underlying factors that determine the base of funding for higher education have stayed the same. Some principles, such as weighted student numbers, changed the calculation of students, but student intake, student output and research...

Introduction: About 90% of menstruating women get advanced warning of an approaching period because of the physical and/or psychological changes in the days before the period begins.Many women have mild symptoms and in a few it may be severe.This study intends to find the commonest symptoms among students in health institutions in Zaria, Northern Nigeria.Objective: To determine the commonest premenstrual symptoms among students in health institutions in Zaria.Methods: A cross sectional study...

The focus of this study was to investigate the impact of family sex education in secondary schools on students in Kogi State, Nigeria. The descriptive survey design was used for the study. A total of 1,960 secondary school students were drawn by stratified random sampling from 40 schools within Kogi State, Nigeria. Three research questions were generated for the study. Data collected using a researchers’ structured questionnaire were subjected to statistics of frequency counts and...

The study investigated the relationship between instructional supervisory practices and teachers’ role effectiveness in public secondary schools in Calabar South Local Government Area of Cross River State. Two null hypotheses were formulated to guide the study. Ex-post facto research design was adopted for the study. The population of the study comprises all public secondary school principals and teachers in the study area. There are a total of six (6) principals and four hundred and...

Gender gap of student performance is one of the remaining challenge in Mozambique. This study shed light on the role of household tasks in gender gap of student performance and examine whether the gender gap comes as a result of difference in engaging household tasks. We employ the decomposition techniques with the SACMEQ III data for 3360 pupils in Mozambique. Our result by mean and quantile decomposition analysis shows that there is little evidence that the difference of household tasks...

Neurocognitive impairment is a detrimental complication of HIV infection. Here, we characterized the intellectual performance of patients with newly diagnosed HIV infection in southwestern Nigeria. We conducted a prospective study at Owo Federal Medical Center by using the adapted Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS). The raw scores were converted to standardized scores (z-scores) and correlated with clinical and laboratory findings. Fifty-eight HIV positive patients were recruited; 72%...

Aims: This study was to evaluate the risk factors associated with tooth wear lesions in patients attending a dental clinic. Context: Tooth wear lesions entail the loss of dental hard tissues in the absence of caries or trauma. They include abrasion, attrition, and erosion. The etiology is often related to habits leading to insidious symptoms with similar presentations in both community and hospital patients. Materials and Methods: This cross-sectional study involved patients attending the...

CLImate-induced changes on WAter and SECurity (CLIWASEC) was a cluster of three complementary EC-FP7 projects assessing climate-change impacts throughout the Mediterranean on: hydrological cycles (CLIMB - CLimate-Induced changes on the hydrology of Mediterranean Basins); water security (WASSERMed - Water Availability and Security in Southern EuRope and the Mediterranean) and human security connected with possible hydro-climatic conflicts (CLICO - CLImate change hydro-COnflicts and human...