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This study investigated the perception of factors responsible for failure in West Africa Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) by secondary school students in Kwara State, Nigeria. The descriptive survey research design was used by the researchers for the study. The researchers randomly selected two hundred and ten (210) senior secondary school students from the three senatorial districts of Kwara State. The questionnaire titled “Factors Responsible for Failure in WAEC Examinations...

AbstractAbstractThe purpose of this paper is to discuss the notion of instructional leadership and to apply it to the South African context, drawing on international and South African literature and research. It also addresses the conceptual and semantic confusion arising from the use of overlapping terminology to describe this aspect of leadership. This topic is significant because of increasing recognition that instructional leadership is one of the most important (if not the most...

AbstractWhite Paper 5's aim is to provide South Africa's children with a solid foundation for lifelong learning and development. Children need to be nurtured and developed holistically for them to participate efficiently in their democratic society. However, South African students continue to perform poorly in Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study compared to other African countries. Contributing factors highlighted by research on this poor performance include students' lack...

South Africa has a fairly centralised education system with a national curriculum. To expect that its instructional guidance system will be formal and centralised is thus not far-fetched. For the most part, that is indeed the case with most curriculum leadership vested formally in the various education specialists located at the national, provincial and district levels. Environmental Education (EE), however, is one area of learning that bucks the trend, where instructional guidance seems to...

The Middle East and North Africa region has been the focal point of large investments in renewable energy, primarily due to high solar irradiation and wind speed in coastal areas. Most countries in the region have set renewable energy targets to diversify their energy mix. Investments have also been motivated by the expected socio-economic co-benefits including job creation, supplier development, increased export revenues and local tax base, and technological spillover into other...

AbstractThe development of sustainable collaborative partnerships between different role players within an inclusive education system seems to be a continuous challenge in South Africa. The focus of this research study was to understand how teachers view collaboration within an inclusive education system. Open-ended questionnaires were completed by 85 participating teachers and focus group interviews were employed with 24 educators. The findings indicate that educators still believe that...

AbstractThe development of sustainable collaborative partnerships between different role players within an inclusive education system seems to be a continuous challenge in South Africa. The focus of this research study was to understand how teachers view collaboration within an inclusive education system. Open-ended questionnaires were completed by 85 participating teachers and focus group interviews were employed with 24 educators. The findings indicate that educators still believe that...

AbstractThe development of sustainable collaborative partnerships between different role players within an inclusive education system seems to be a continuous challenge in South Africa. The focus of this research study was to understand how teachers view collaboration within an inclusive education system. Open-ended questionnaires were completed by 85 participating teachers and focus group interviews were employed with 24 educators. The findings indicate that educators still believe that...

AbstractThe development of sustainable collaborative partnerships between different role players within an inclusive education system seems to be a continuous challenge in South Africa. The focus of this research study was to understand how teachers view collaboration within an inclusive education system. Open-ended questionnaires were completed by 85 participating teachers and focus group interviews were employed with 24 educators. The findings indicate that educators still believe that...

AbstractThe development of sustainable collaborative partnerships between different role players within an inclusive education system seems to be a continuous challenge in South Africa. The focus of this research study was to understand how teachers view collaboration within an inclusive education system. Open-ended questionnaires were completed by 85 participating teachers and focus group interviews were employed with 24 educators. The findings indicate that educators still believe that...

This study investigated the relationship between gender equality and entrepreneurship education development of Kwara State Tertiary Institutions, Nigeria. The study adopted both correlation and comparative research survey types. Stratified random sampling techniques was used to select 250 respondents for the vocational, technical, business education, home science, economics, fine and applied arts, and computer science departments. The respondents however comprised of heads of department,...

This article presents a model that can inform the continued professionalisation of student affairs as both a field and a practice in Africa.After providing a brief overview of the African post-secondary educational climate and establishing student affairs as an internationally recognised profession, I analyse three pieces authored or co-authored by Mirko Noordegraaf (2003; 2007; 2011) that develop the concepts of socially constructed professionalism, management of practices-in-transition and...

On a global scale, the 1998 World Declaration on Higher Education (WDHE) calls for national and institutional decision-makers to "place students and their needs at the centre of their concern", particularly as higher education expands and improves in developing countries.In response to this call, UNESCO has begun to elaborate ways in which student affairs and services in higher education can give effect to the World Declaration with the publication of the manual The role of student affairs...

The major purpose of this study was to assess the adjustment problems, status of help seeking behaviours and dysfunctional coping strategies of first year students at Assela College of Teacher Education, Ethiopia. The population was all first year students admitted to the college in regular programme in the year 2010/11 (N=599). Among these, 211(92 male and 119 female) students were selected using stratified random sampling technique and involved in the study. Besides, 10 academic advisors...

This chapter engages with an ethnography of learning, i.e., a moment in which ethnography becomes an active learning process of a particular linguistic and literacy instrument, ‘textspeak’ in a local variety of the supervernacular of mobile phone texting code in a township around Cape Town. In the context of research on the use of mobile phones, the ethnographer found herself frequently in the role of apprentice vis-à-vis the informants, and this chapter documents one such instance in which...