ABSTRACT The study aimed to study the media coverage of issues of children's rights violations in Kenya. It employed A quantitative assessment of secondary data was carried out on The Daily Nation and The East African Standard for the period of six months (January 2005 - June 2005). The major recommendation was that media houses should seek to establish objectivity when covering children's issues. They should not portray children always as people who only need to be helped, but rather as peo...
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ABSTRACT The purpose of the study was to investigate the extent to which media owners control affects the operations of media houses. The study was guided by three specific objectives and these included; to examine the extent to which media owner and external force influence the daily operations of media organizations, to find out how profit maximization motives of media corporations affect the quality of content produced, and to establish the magnitude at which media content impacts on the a...
ABSTRACT The purpose of the study was to examine the impact of girl child drop out on academic performance of learners. The objectives were to establish the relationship between girl child drop out and academic performance of learners. The study also examined the causes of girl child drop out among learners. The study used across -sectional survey design to analyze both quantitative and qualitative. The researcher coHected data from 3 schools with a population of 150 respondents. The research...
Abstract This study works to identify the effects of autism on parents, siblings, and teachers. How autism affects a family and its members, how friends react to their autistic friend, neighbor’s perception, and teachers' behavior towards autistic children. After some previous studies, an empirical efficacy framework was created and tested through quantitative techniques. In-depth interview questions were set for conducting a survey with the Parents, Siblings, and Teachers. The results were...
The study was set. to ascertain impact of technology on traditional mass media in, Uganda a case study of New vision. It was followed by the following objectives, to explore how technology has impacted the traditional mass media in regard to news papers, television, radio, print media and advertising, to find out the effects of technology to the traditional mass media in Uganda as far as gathering, packaging and dissemination is concerned, and lastly to determine if there is a relationship be...
The purpose of the study was to examine the effects of domestic violence on girl child education in Lira District. The objectives of the study were to investigate whether drunkardness affects girl child education in lira municipality; to find out the extent to which unfaithfulness affects girl child education in lira District and to assess the effect of poverty on girl child education in lira District. The methods used for data collection were questionnaires to the major respondents and int...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to investigate the attitudes of biology teachers towards the teaching- leaming process in selected Secondary schools of Gahini Sub-District, Kayonza District Rwanda. The objectives of the study were; to detennine the role of teachers' attitudes on the teachingleaming process, to whether teaching attitudes affecting negatively the teaching- leaming process, and to investigate whether the teaching competencies affect the teaching- !eaming process. The met...
The research was carried out in Kalisizo town Council Rakai district with a sole motive of giving out the role played by decentralization policy towards poverty reduction. The research also established the factors which enhance the causes and effects of poverty to the population of Rakai district specifically Kalisizo Town Council. This included; establishing solutions to reduce poverty in the town council. Another important factor to note is that the research would bring out the hindrances t...
The armed conflict in Darfur between Sudanese armed forces, their affiliated militia and various rebels, has inflicted unspeakable consequences upon civilians, their villages, towns, homes and other civilian objects (in particular relief assistance). The international community, including Sudan, has made and is still making various efforts to secure peace and to stop violations of humanitarian principles in Darfur, including the controversial referral of some cases to the ICC and the deployme...
The background of the study explains the history of mass media back beyond the dawns of Tourism to the people that figured out that they could reach audience through communicating through a written word. Research objectives was. l . To examine the public perception on article and feature news for print media existing in Zanzibar in relation to tourism development.2. To assess the efficiency and effectiveness of the print media in communicating with the intemal and external public in the count...
ABSTRACT A descriptive study was carried out in Opejo Parish Ciforo Sub County, Djumani district, with a purpose of examining those factors influencing performance in Mathematics, in primary schools. The study was guided by the following objectives; to find out gender affects the children's performance in mathematics. To establish if the methods used in teaching mathematics are appropriate. To find out if the quality of teachers was good to carry out instruction in mathematics. To esta...
ABSTRACT This study investigated the influence of early childhood education on children's educational attainment. The following objectives guided the study: to find out if when children participate in ECDE programs will perform better in school. To find out whether by children participating in the ECDE programs makes them better in language and literacy, and to find out how those children who attended preschool socially related better than those who did not and if the parents of those...
ABSTRACT This research aimed at finding out the effects of feeding on academic performance in primary schools in Buikwe Town Council, Buikwe district. The researcher found out the importance of feeding to the children, effects of feeding and the impact of feeding programme on academic performance. Stratified sampling and random sampling techniques were used in this research so that each individual was given the same chance of being included m the sample. The instrument for data collection wa...
ABSTRACT The general objective of the study was to determine the causes of school drop out on girls in Kabamet Zone~Baringo District, Kenya and come up with possible strategies to solve the problem. In the collection of data, all sources viewed relevant to this particular study were revisited and employed. This study used a descriptive cross sectional survey. The research used both the qualitative and quantitative analysis approaches in order to get a bigger picture both in number and data. S...