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The study aimed at identifying the factors determining the choice of Agriculture professional career among the Students of the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences in Ekiti State University, Nigeria.  A total of 160 randomly selected respondents were utilized for the study, while a structured interview schedule was used to elicit information from them. Frequency counts and percentages, Likert scale, as well as, Probit model were used in data analysis. The respondent’s ages ranged from 16 to 32...

The study aimed at identifying the factors determining the choice of Agriculture professional career among the Students of the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences in Ekiti State University, Nigeria.  A total of 160 randomly selected respondents were utilized for the study, while a structured interview schedule was used to elicit information from them. Frequency counts and percentages, Likert scale, as well as, Probit model were used in data analysis. The respondent’s ages ranged from 16 to 32...

The study aimed at identifying the factors determining the choice of Agriculture professional career among the Students of the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences in Ekiti State University, Nigeria.  A total of 160 randomly selected respondents were utilized for the study, while a structured interview schedule was used to elicit information from them. Frequency counts and percentages, Likert scale, as well as, Probit model were used in data analysis. The respondent’s ages ranged from 16 to 32...

School violence is a serious public health issue in South Africa. Akinsola and Ramakuela (2009) conducted a study on teachers’ perceived prevalence, determinants and preventive strategies for violence-related behaviours among South African high school children in rural Vhembe district. Based on the results of this study, a model was developed. One of the assumptions underlying this model is that any form of school violence is not just a school’s problem. It involves schools, families and the...

Friends African Mission (FAM) set forth an education department to train corps of African teachers- evangelists. The pioneer teacher-evangelists formed the basis of a new Luhyia elite that helped transform Luhyia society. And as education became more relevant in the emerging colonial structure, African Christians began to demand for more schools, learning in English and higher education, at a pace that neither the government nor the missionaries could match. Consequently, African Christians...

Africa has a rich tradition of culture, history, sport and social institutions. Various countries throughout the continent have demonstrated these. The rich traditional games, plays, dances and arts of the continent have stood the test of time. They were used for various purposessocialization, initiation, ceremonies, recreation, etc. Archaeological discoveries continue to associate the continent with the origin of man, including physical culture. The practice of physical education is deeply...

The present study provides valuable insight into African American youths’ ego-identity and wisdom development. The study examines the relationship between wisdom dimensions (cognitive, affective, and reflective) and ego-identity statuses (achievement, moratorium, foreclosure, and diffusion), and age and gender differences among 198 African American college students (age 18-25 years). The study also examines how self-esteem and resilience are related to wisdom and ego-identity. The results...

As paediatric antiretroviral therapy (ART) is rapidly scaled up in Southern Africa, Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infection is becoming a chronic illness. Children growing up with HIV may begin to encounter disabilities. The relationship between HIV, disability and the need for rehabilitation has added an additional element that needs to be addressed by paediatric HIV treatment programmes.1) Estimate the prevalence of disabilities in HIV-infected and HIV-uninfected children in Lilongwe,...

Education is seen as a veritable tool for the socio-political and economic emancipation of any country from the shackles of ignorance, poverty, unemployment and low economic growth. But despite the enormous increase in education expenditure and literacy rate in Nigeria in the past two decades, noninclusive growth and high poverty rate still permeate all facets of human endeavour. In this light, the paper examines the interrelationships among education, economic growth and poverty in Nigeria....

E-learning has become everyday and commonplace features of higher education across the world yet in some institutions the opportunities and affordances of technology have yet to be fully exploited. To better enable the initial exploitation of e-learning, this paper describes the development of a theoretical construct, based on original research, describing the characteristics associated with the successful deployment of technology evidenced in Egyptian higher education supported by the...

Urban areas in West Africa are not immune to undernutrition with recent urbanization and high food prices being important factors. School children often have a poor nutritional status, potentially affecting their health and schooling performance. Yet, generally school children do not benefit from nutrition programs. The objective of the study was to assess the anthropometric and micronutrient status of children from state schools in the Dakar area.School children (n = 604) aged from 5 to 17...

Review of J. Phahlamohlaka (ed.), Community-Driven Projects: Reflections on a Success Story: A Case Study of Science Education and Information Technology in South Africa, Van Schaik Publishers, 2008, Pretoria.

The purpose of this study was to examine the attitude to computer among Business Education students in Lagos State tertiary institutions.The effect of year of study of the Business Education students on their attitude to computer was studied.Four institutions of higher learning (two universities and two Colleges of Education) in Lagos State were selected for the study.The sample comprised of 520 Business Education students.The subjects responded to a computer attitudinal scale and a...

A study was carried out to investigate into factors responsible for technical inefficiency of food crop farmers in the oil polluted and non-polluted areas of Niger Delta.Data were collected from 270 (140 for oil polluted and 130 in unpolluted area) farmers selected through a multistage random sampling technique.A stochastic frontier function that incorporated inefficiency effect was estimated using the Maximum Likelihood Estimation (MLE) technique.The MLE of the stochastic production...

The primary purpose of this investigation was to assess the level of human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immune deficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) knowledge of high school adolescents in Kenya. As a subsidiary, objective of the investigation was to determine whether there was transfer of knowledge between boys and girls regarding their sexual behaviour. The results showed that adolescent high school students have a high level of knowledge of HIV/AIDS and that such knowledge transfers to the...

This paper discusses research carried out to investigate the effects of inclusion on children with severe intellectual disability who are in the mainstream system or in six ordinary regular rural primary schools in Zaka Central Cluster, Zaka District, Masvingo Province, Zimbabwe. The study adopted the descriptive survey method. Three schools were randomly selected from the six which make up the cluster. The study targeted twelve students with severe intellectual disability .These were placed...