The present study was designed to determine the prevalence of Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among flood affected school children in Pakistan. The sample of the study was comprised of 522 randomly selected students aged 10-16 years from five flood affected districts of Khyber Pukhtunkhwa. The instrument used in the study was The Impact of Event Scale- Revised (IES-R) to measure Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among flood affected school children in Pakistan.. The main findings of...
Objective: To investigate entrepreneurial skills of business students and their learning styles and to measure the relationship of entrepreneurial skills with students’ learning styles. Methodology: Though co-relational survey and cluster random sampling techniques, 527 business schools students were selected from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa public sector universities. Entrepreneurial Skills Questionnaire (ESQ) and Neil Flaming VARK Learning Style Model (FSLSM) were used for data collection. Results...
This study intended to investigate the instructional practices at business schools and the learning of entrepreneurial skills. The objectives of the study were: to find out prevailing instructional practices of business educators, entrepreneurship skills of business graduates and the relationship of instructional practices with entrepreneurial skills. The population of the study comprised of business educators and business graduates of the province Khyber Pakhtunkhwa of Pakistan. The data was...
Entrepreneurial leadership emphasize on innovative, creative, resilient and a dynamic organizational environment. It leads the organization through capability building, collaboration, team building, sharing of responsibilities and providing maximum leading opportunities. This study explored the impact of entrepreneurial leadership on the performances of higher education in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Three research questions guided the study and a qualitative phenomenological research designed was ad...
Overcrowded classrooms and its associated problems are always under investigation of researchers. This study investigated the teaching methodologies and disciplinary problems in overcrowded classrooms. Through a descriptive survey research design, the problem was investigated. Among six hundred and thirty eight female Secondary School Teachers (SSTs), through purposive sampling techniques eighty eight teachers identified as sample who were teaching to overcrowded classrooms. The selected resp...
Prospective teachers’ training is carried out adopting various approaches. Every approach has some merits and demerits. The current study adopted a flip learning approach for the training of prospective teachers in pedagogical skills. The study was delimited to four pedagogical skills (instructional planning, presentation, classroom management and assessment skills). Null hypotheses were formulated and in pre-experimental designs one group single case study design was adopted. The treatment...
Background: Students in the modern world are busy using social media for different purposes along with other activities. Research studies revealed that excessive use of social media influence the mental health of students. This study was design to measure the relationship of social media and depression among university students. Objectives: The main objectives of the study were, to investigate the perception of university students regarding the usage of social media networks, to find out gend...
There are different instructional models that teachers adopted for the teaching of students different subjects. Among all those a student centered model is 5Es instructional model. This model concentrates on the engaging students, made exploration through students, explains and elaborate the learning concepts by students and then to evaluate students learning. All these 5Es provide ample space for students’ hands-on practices of the learning contents. This experimental study was conducted a...
Accreditation Councils are all about quality assurance in the academic programs. All the mechanisms of accreditation concentrates on the quality for which Quran uses and stress words ihsan and itqan (good and quality). National Accreditation Council for Teacher Education (NACTE) like other academic accreditation councils is also working to ensure quality in teacher education. The accreditation processes of NACTE concentrate to ensure the quality in terms of infrastructure, facilities and inst...
Objectives: To find the occurrence of PTSD among secondary school students of District Swat and to measure the relationship of PTSD and academic achievement of students. Methodology: This descriptive study comprised of 25 boys and girls high schools destroyed during militancy and military operation in District Swat. The sample consisted of 941 students comprising of 573 male and 368 female students. Child PTSD Symptom Scale (CPSS) was used to measure PTSD. Results: Female students developed h...
Marriage is an important part of man’s social life; a covenant and commitment between a man and woman. At a particular stage in life, people are questioned if they are not married. Yet, some people see the cure for unhappy marriage as separation (divorce), it’s often seems to be a problem than a solution; meanwhile, the society is heavily affected. Divorce remains a severe crisis; it inflicts pains on people concerned, children and the society at large. Many have seen the marriage covenan...
There is no doubt that investment in education, particularly higher education, is expensive (not as expensive as ignorance), but the returns are of immense benefit for nation building in the long run. Every nation requires competent and experienced people for its development, and the products of higher education form the tools for such development. Higher education provides the necessary manpower with the required skills and competencies essential for the social, economic and political advanc...
Democracy is one of the most successful political systems of the 20th and 21st centuries. In a democrat government people have rights to chosen the religion of their choices; because democracy gives an opportunities to have equal rights before the law. When democracy was invented, the system was referred to as Demokrita, which connotes rule by the people. Schumpeter (1947) opined that “democracy means only that the people have the opportunity of accepting or rejecting the men who are to g...
Abstract The rate of unemployment has always been calling for attention in most of the sub-Saharan Africa countries. The situation is also pertinent in Nigeria despite inflow of foreign direct investment (FDI) and rise in gross domestic product (GDP). The study investigates the impact of FDI and GDP on unemployment in Nigeria using time series data spanning 1981 to 2017; descriptive and inferential statistics of ordinary least square (OLS) method were used. Results of the analysis r...
Abstract This work studies Education-Employment Nexus In Nigeria Education is an important aspect of human life. Thinking of education as human capital motivates societies to invest in education to raise productivity, and to increase individual and social benefits. The issue of employment is very germane to any economy; this is why one of the main macroeconomic objectives of any country is to attain full employment. This study shall provide the government with relevant and reliable infor...