ABSTRACT The study examined the impact of training in riot control of prison officers and their ability to deliver an effective professional service in the Tamale central prison. Through Yemane’s sampling technique the study selected 125 prison officers to respond to the study. The study adopted stratified sampling and simple random sampling technique to select respondents based on whether they have been trained on riot control or not. The findings revealed that the major cause of prison ri...
ABSTRACT Since the United Nations Declaration of the Decade for Women in 1975 following the global outcry of poor and low participation of women in decision making and in politics in the 1980s, the Government of Ghana with its institutions and international donor agencies and organisations started increasing their focus on empowering women by providing Non-Formal Education (NFE) programmes. This was to raise the women’s consciousness and to build their capacities and skills. The value assum...
ABSTRACT Background: Lymphatic Filariasis (LF) is one of the 17 Worlds most Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) are predominantly found in most marginalized and low-income communities. The World Health Organization (WHO) with World Health Assembly (WHA) in collaboration with Ghana Health Service had instituted an annual MDA to totally eliminate LF by the year 2020 from all endemic communities. Awareness and knowledge about LF have been a major challenge for people not patronizing the exercise...
ABSTRACT Time to harvest sweet potato is paramount in determining the yield and nutritional composition. Establishing an appropriate period to harvest non-white fleshed sweet potato [Ipomoea batatas (L) Lam] cultivars introduced in Ghana as food crops is relevant to their promotion for human health. However, there is insufficient scientific information on the root quality (root yield, fresh foliage weight, (3-carotene, dry matter, starch, fructose, glucose, sucrose, zinc, iron and protein) o...
ABSTRACT This is a survey study on the contributory role of health education for enhancing the health status of vulnerable groups particularly women. It is a study based on the WHO/Ghana Government Functional Literacy Project for Women in the Dangme East District which is aimed at improving the health status of women through a triad approach of functional literacy, health education and income generating activities. Specifically, the study set out to i) identify the health educational activit...
ABSTRACT Formal education plays a vital role in the development of human capital for empowerment, therefore there is the need for parental and community involvement which can positively influence learners academic success regardless of a family's wealth or education. The study which is a descriptive survey, sought to find out the role of parents and community members in supporting girls education and also any other barriers which limit the education of girls in West Gonja District. The views...
ABSTRACT The study sought to evaluate Senior High School students’ perceptions on the studying of Agriculture Science subject in the Akuapem North District in the Eastern Region of Ghana. The study adopted a descriptive survey research design using questionnaires as the main data collection instrument. Data were provided by 203 students who were purposively sampled from 4,045 Senior High School students in the district. The data were analysed using descriptive statistics aided by the Stati...
ABSTRACT In spite of the enormous efforts the Ghana government has made to reduce recidivism among ex-convicts, recidivism continues to increase in the country. The study thus aimed at using rehabilitation to reduce recidivism in Tamale Central Prison. The study used both purposive and random sampling procedures to select a sample size of 100 respondents who took part in the study. Data was collected by the use of questionnaires for both primary data and secondary data. The collected data wa...
ABSTRACT The study sought to assess the empowerment of women through microfinance institutions in the Tamale Area of the Northern Region of Ghana. The research problem was as a result of varied household needs of women, inadequate funds by women to expand their businesses and the increase in the number of microcredit schemes in the area.A descriptive study design was used to gather information from 130 women, in four microfinance institutions. Purposive sampling procedure was used to select ...
ABSTRACT Notwithstanding the efforts to improve the professionalism of teachers through various professional development programmes in line with both International and National Educational Policies, some teachers still do not perform satisfactorily. It is against this backdrop that this study was undertaken to analyze the effects of professional development on teachers in the Sagnarigu District. The main objective of the study was to assess the effects of professional development experience ...
ABSTRACT There is great issue of concern to the alarming rate of the increasing number of SHS graduates who do not proceed to any higher education and cannot be absorbed by both the public and private sector in the job market annually in Ghana. Small ruminant production can provide lots of significant employment potential for youth to engage in. This study looked at the assessment of the potential of small ruminant production as a source of employment for Senior High School Graduates in the ...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study is to empirically investigate the attitude of teachers at St Peter’s JHS towards the use of ICT, to explain these attitudes and to capture what teachers think can be done to improve their attitudes towards the use of ICT for teaching and learning processes. Using purposive sampling techniques, a sample of 14 was selected. The study takes the form of a survey that makes use of an open ended questionnaire for data collection. The resulting data are analyzed...
ABSTRACT This study is aimed at examining the influence of Interactive method of teaching on the performance of Science teachers at the Evangelical Presbyterian Basic School, Sogakofe. Fifty pupils were purposively sampled for the study. The nature of the study was conventional research. Nine Integrated Science teachers were selected for the research. Questionnaires were administered to respondents and data was collected. Descriptive statistics were used to analyze the data in terms of frequ...
ABSTRACT The legal translation of terminological equivalence cannot be performed without considering legal cultural concepts and differences between legal systems. The level of equivalence of the terms depends on how legal systems relate and not on that of the languages involved. Given that culture is one of the key factors for quality translation of a legal document, thorough research on the cultures involved cannot afford to be overlooked. For this purpose, this study analyses this area ba...
ABSTRACT The oil and gas discovery and production in Ghana has given the country a new status which has invigorated the scholarly debate on the effects of oil and gas discovery on the socio-economic development of the citizenry. The discovery, and its subsequent production, at Ghana’s Jubilee fields was met with high expectations by the Ghanaian citizenry, especially those within the catchment areas, as far as enjoying quality job opportunities, socio-economic development in infrastructure,...