ABSTRACT The study examined the view of people including the girl-child, parents and teachers on the enrolment and retention of the girl-child on school at the basic level, in GaWest Municipality. It considered the socio- economic characteristics of the girl-child that affect her education and other factors that motivates or de- motivates the girlchild to study in school. Qualitative research approach was employed, utilizing phenomenological design. Samples were drawn from the Amasaman circui...
ABSTRACT Supervision has become indispensable for it is an impetus enabling headmasters to maintaining order and sanity in schools particularly in senior high secondary schools. It has therefore become needful that in era where people would always want their way despite law and order, proper supervision has become appropriate to help sustain discipline. This makes it clear that, supervision cannot be underrated because it is a major constituent in any good leadership in every school for which...
ABSTRACT The study was conducted to investigate the religious and ethical implications of prostitution in Ghana. The purpose of the study was to examine why prostitution still persists in spite of condemnation by some religious groups. Six selected communities, where mining and industrial activities are done, comprising 53 respondents and interviewees (50 prostitutes and 3 religious leaders) were used and this was done using the purposive and snowball sampling techniques, in the selection of ...
ABSTRACT This study examined errors made in the adjective clauses by the students of St Peter‟s Catholic Basic School Ngleshie Amanfro. To achieve this, essays from 132 final year pupils were analyzed for different types of adjective clause errors. Interviews were also conducted to solicit information on trainees and teachers‟ view regarding adjective clause errors among students. The results are classified into two main categories: error types and causes of errors. The common errors comm...
ABSTRACT This thesis was a study into the politics of development under the leadership of Agbogbomefia Togbe Afede XIV of Ho-Asogli State. The study adopted the qualitative approach to collect data and interviews were conducted with informants. Secondary sources such as newspaper publications, brochures, books, journals, and articles and speeches were used to support the primary data. The research gave a brief background of the history, politics and the state of development in the Ho-Asogli s...
ABSTRACT The research work was steered to assess Customer Satisfaction of front desk operation in the tourism industry with particular reference to Modern City Hotel in the Tamale metropolis in the Northern Region of Ghana. Questionnaire and interview were data collection instruments used to solicit for data from one hundred and five customers and twenty – five employees of the hotel. The findings revealed that customers were much in higher expectation in assurance. Again, customers conside...
ABSTRACT This study investigated spelling errors committed by students of Lamboya Junior High School in the Bawku West District, who are learning English language (L2) as a core subject. The study examined written essays of 84 students who were in form three (3) and preparing for their Basic Education Certificate Examination. And so, the test instrument for the study was their mock exam. The rationale for using the form 3 students and the mock exam was that the students might have mastered to...
ABSTRACT This study examines how vehicle owners and drivers in and around Tarkwa in the Western Region of Ghana use their vehicle inscriptions to construct their identity. With interview and observation, data was collected from twenty inscriptions and analysed. Hecht et al’s communication theory of identity and Adamo Semiotics formed the theoretical framework of the study. Meanings of the inscriptions were also solicited from their authors through interviews. The study discovered that there...
ABSTRACT This thesis examines the development of architecture in Kumase from 1874 to 1960. In other words, the study focuses on the rebuilding of the built environment of Kumase from 1874 to 1960. Using qualitative evaluation of archival documents, interviews with Asante chiefs, owners of houses, heads of families, trustees of households etc., and some secondary sources of historical information, this work discusses the traditional architecture of Kumase and, how the British colonial governme...
ABSTRACT The study investigated the influence of study habit on academic performance of students in Mathematics in junior high schools in the Kumasi Metropolis. The study adopted descriptive survey research design where data were collected from Mathematics Teachers and Students in Weweso M/A JHS, Aprade JHS, Kentinkrono JHS and Emmanuel Methodist JHS, Anwomaso JHS. This through random sampling sampled 278 students and 10 Mathematics Teachers. The study designed two sets of questionnaire for d...
ABSTRACT This study examined the telenovelas that interest women and the cultivation of these interests among female audience in BBC, a suburb of community 2 in the Tema Municipality. Also, the study examined the characters that women identify with in telenovelas and finally, examined why women identify themselves with these characters in telenovelas. Purposive sampling strategy was applied to sample 20 female audience of telenovela viewing for data collection. With the use of questionnaires,...
ABSTRACT. This study is a sociolinguistic analysis of lexical and pronunciation variations among native speakers of Kolangɛ in the Seikwa Township located in the Bono-Ahafo region of Ghana. Kolangɛ exhibits important social variations which need to be described by linguists. The aim of the study was to examine the speech forms of the older generation and the younger generation and to establish any differences there may be. The study design was qualitative. The main instruments used were int...
Abstract Peace and security are sine qua non for development; and they are intrinsically linked to demographic change. People are likely to move out en masses where there is extremely low personal security, real or perceived. Even in non-conflict societies, personal security is especially compromised through crime, persecution, domestic violence and public disorder. Perceptions of personal security determine people’s participation in social, economic and political activities, and have an im...
ABSTRACT The purpose of the study was to find out the perception of the distance education students of Asanteman study center about the quality of support services received. The adopted descriptive survey design and 120 students were randomly selected for the study. A self-completion questionnaire was the main instrument used to collect data from the participants. A Cronbach alpha co-efficient of 0.71 was obtained for the instrument. Descriptive statistics such as frequencies, percentages and...
ABSTRACT The Temple of Praise Church is an indigenous Neo-Pentecostal church whose mode of operation slightly differs from both the Historic and Classical Pentecostal churches. It is one of the churches founded by indigenous Africans in 1988, and it is among the first Neo-Pentecostal churches to be established in the Brong Ahafo Region of Ghana. The Temple of Praise church, Bethel Prayer Ministry, The Apostle Continuation Church and others which are not mentioned here are categorized as indig...