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Using survey data collected in rural Ghana during the 1980s, this study examines whether a woman's interest in fertility regulation and contraception is influenced by the education of other women in her community.The study finds that, net of her own characteristics, a woman's interest in limiting fertility and using modern contraception increases with the percent of women with education in her community.The finding suggests that female education has a greater capacity to introduce novel...

This survey study investigated teachers' professional misconduct sustaining examination malpractice. Participants were four hundred post primary and secondary school teachers randomly drawn from all the senatorial districts of three of the South Western part of Nigeria (male= 221 and female= 179). A self constructed questionnaire was used to gather data. The descriptive statistics of mean and standard deviation were employed to test the three research questions formulated while t- test...

This paper presents the report of a survey of staff and students' expression of preference for, and willingness to engage, in three approaches to curbing the menace of academic dishonesty in a Nigerian university. The study also explored the possible connections between gender and the respondents' responses. Eighty-seven staff and two hundred and thirty–two final year undergraduate students, randomly selected from five faculties in the university, constituted the study sample; and data was...

The study was conducted primarily to find the state of support services and the effect of class size in mainstreamed schools and its implication for the inclusive drive. The study became necessary due to the importance of these two factors in the provision of holistic inclusive programmes in Ghana. The samples for the study were ten head teachers and fifty teachers, making a total of 60 respondents. The respondents were selected from ten schools in the Cape Coast Municipality. The instrument...

Student's migration, like any other migration involves a continuous process of interaction through which members of different social and cultural background come in contact with one another and together, with the new socio-cultural situations. In the University of Pune, students of different social, ethnic, cultural and linguistic backgrounds from different continents and countries come in search for academic knowledge. This paper about African students in Pune city, deals with their...

هدفت الدراسة الى بيان وجهة نظر طلبة الدراسات العليا بالجامعة الاسلامية نحو سلبيات وايجابيات استخدام الانتلانت ومدى اتجاهاتهم نحو استخدمه واتبع الباحث المنهج الوصفي واستخدم لذلك استبانة مكونة من 43 فقرة موزعة على ثلاثة محاور ونكونت العينة من 50 طالب وطالبة من درجة الماجستير بمختلف تخصصاتهم وكانت النتائج كما يلي حيث ابدى الطلبة بالرغبة القوية نحو الاستخدام وكذا بالوعي بما يحويه الانترنت من التأثيرات السلبية نحو القضايا الصحية والاجتماعية واوصت الدراسة بعقد الدورات نحو استخدام الانترنت في القضايا المهنية والتعليمية

Allam Ahmed and Williams E. Nwagwu examine global networks for e-learning networks, with particular interest on the characteristics of the structures adopted by African countries to participate in the new educational strategy, and how these structures are moderated by Africa's peculiar social and political characteristics. They look at the challenges and opportunities that e-learning networks face in Africa, and then finally suggest how the challenges can be met, in addition to also how the opportunities can be utilized.

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Additional informationNotes on contributorsWinston AkalaThe books reviewed here are Beth B. Swadener with Margaret Kabiru and Anne Njenga, Does the Village Still Educate the Child? A Collaborative Study of Changing Childrearing and Early Education in Kenya (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2000), x + 322pp., US$71.50 (hbk), ISBN 0‐7914‐4757‐X, US$24.95 (pbk), ISBN 0‐7914‐4758‐8; and Amy Stambach, Lessons from Mount...

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Additional informationNotes on contributorsWinston AkalaThe books reviewed here are Beth B. Swadener with Margaret Kabiru and Anne Njenga, Does the Village Still Educate the Child? A Collaborative Study of Changing Childrearing and Early Education in Kenya (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2000), x + 322pp., US$71.50 (hbk), ISBN 0‐7914‐4757‐X, US$24.95 (pbk), ISBN 0‐7914‐4758‐8; and Amy Stambach, Lessons from Mount...

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Additional informationNotes on contributorsWinston AkalaThe books reviewed here are Beth B. Swadener with Margaret Kabiru and Anne Njenga, Does the Village Still Educate the Child? A Collaborative Study of Changing Childrearing and Early Education in Kenya (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2000), x + 322pp., US$71.50 (hbk), ISBN 0‐7914‐4757‐X, US$24.95 (pbk), ISBN 0‐7914‐4758‐8; and Amy Stambach, Lessons from Mount...

The main purpose of the study was to investigate the opinion of the Yemeni secondary school Teachers about their participation in planning and developing of school curriculum.The researchers designed a questionnaire to be answered by teachers in secondary school in Wadi Hadhramout.The sample of the study included (144) teachers, who were randomly selected.Data was analyzed by using frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, and T-test.The major findings of this study were: 1-Teachers...

Family predictors of tobacco and alcohol use were studied in random samples of school-going Black, Coloured, and White adolescents (total N=1,800) in the Cape Town Metropolitan Area. The subjects ranged in age from 14 to 17 years, with a mean age of 15.95 years. Logistic regression analysis of the data showed invariance across the three racial groups in terms of the specific family variables that were predictive, as well as their direction and magnitude of association with substance use....

This paper examines the issue of dualism or diarchy in the educational structure of Northern Nigeria and how various Nigerian governments have grappled with the problem of forging a workable synthesis between the Qur’anic school system and western education without much success. The paper asserts that in recent times, the deplorable conditions of these schools, cases of child abuse/neglect associated with them and the need to expand access to education for all have forced a second look at...

This study extends research on college choice by examining what African American students say about the importance of the college's athletic reputation when choosing which school to attend. The authors first examine, among African American students attending four-year colleges or universities, the overall distribution of self-reported factors that, as high school seniors, shaped the selection of their first choice institutions. Then factor analysis was conducted to examine the structure of...

A study of access to and use of computers by 6 577 students and 515 academic staff in five South African universities found no gender differences at a broad level. Closer analysis revealed more subtle but distinct differences relating to practical access and personal agency, specifically autonomy, time, confidence, and interest. Disciplinary, socio-economic and aged- related differences also emerge. Contradictory findings amongst staff and students are noted. Our findings are aligned with...

Abstract Drawing upon data from Ethiopia, we highlight the relationship between investments in child schooling and key factors related to household characteristics, supply and quality of schooling, and income shocks. The unique contribution of this study stems from our examination of the effect of adverse income shocks on gender-differentiated child schooling outcomes. While there are several empirical studies that test the degree to which households are able to smooth consumption in...