ABSTRACT The possibility of a school’s culture influencing school performance has triggered wide spread research in recent years, with the introduction of organisational culture as a field of management studying the 1970s. This topic gained the wide interest of scholars’ attention by 1980. Building from sociological and anthropological perspectives, scholars have argued that organisations could possess a culture-which is the taken-for-granted assumptions and behaviour that makes sense of ...
ABSTRACT This study focused on marine fisheries data collection, management and utilization which diminished the ability of fisheries to be effectively managed and leading to under-reporting. The Delphi methodology was selected as the most appropriate means to achieve the goals and objectives of this study because it provided a way to solicit and gain consensus by experts on Namibian fisheries data collection and management. The major findings were mostly the low interest of stakeholders in t...
ABSTRACT This study focusses on the current retention rate of girls in rural secondary schools that were part of the piloted schools in the then Kavango Educational Region but now fall in the Kavango West Educational Region after the split of Kavango into two regions (East and West) by the forth Delimitation Commission in 2013. The aim of the study is to identify what the current retention rate of the girls is, the type of barriers they are faced with and how to overcome them. The key researc...
Abstract The purpose of this study was to evaluate the implementation of the policy on “Discipline from Within” in selected secondary schools in the Oshana region of Namibia. A qualitative comparative case study was used to compare how the “Discipline from Within” policy was implemented in two best disciplined secondary schools and two poorly disciplined secondary schools in Oshana region. The population comprised of all secondary schools in the Oshana region. A purposeful sampling s...
ABSTRACT Research shows that learner academic achievement depends on school leadership. However, evidence has shown that identifying the effects of principals on learner academic achievement is challenging. Consequently, the present study investigated the role of principals’ leadership style on learner academic achievement. To achieve this aim two case studies of high and low performing combined schools in Zambezi region were selected interviewing two principals and seven teachers using an...
ABSTRACT The study sought to investigate views of respondents on how the school cluster system serves as a teachers‟ support service with the ultimate goal to improve learners‟ academic performance and teachers‟ professional development. The study used a qualitative approach and adopted a case study research design. The study involved three Cluster Centre Principals (CCPs), two Satellite School Principals (SSPs) and five teachers from secondary schools. Data were mainly collected throu...
ABSTRACT NAMCOL makes use of formal education teachers who are appointed by the College as part-time tutors. Tutors are appointed on a seven-month contract starting from March up to September of each year. They are allocated one to two class groups depending on the number of learners enrolled per subject and are remunerated on an hourly basis. Many tutors therefore, prefer to teach more than one class group and decline to be appointed for one group only because the more class groups they teac...
Abstract The purpose of this study was to investigate the challenges faced by school board members in executing their roles in the rural primary schools of the Omusati Region. The Namibian Education Act, promulgated in 2001, was committed in ensuring democracy through active involvement of all stakeholders (principals, teachers, parents, other stakeholders and learners in secondary schools) in the decision-making processes in schools through school board members. However, the evolution of sc...