ABSTRACT In an attempt to enhance school governance, the Ministry of Education introduced Pupils Governing Council (PGC) guidelines which require primary school children to form pupils’ councils. This has seen some schools over the last few years enhance their governance. However, formation and operations of these councils have been under the mark whereby studies show that few schools still are experiencing governance challenges. The purpose of the study was to find out how public primary s...
The importance of social media in enhancing positive relationships between customers and business cannot be ignore since they offer new and innovative ways to communicate and network via the internet. Currently, there are various platforms provided by the social media networks such as Facebook, Google plus, LinkedIn, YouTube, Skype, WhatsApp and Twitter which are used as tools for marketing. Social media has opened a new perspective in the way business is conducted. Technology acceptance mod...
ABSTRACT In Kenya, the performance of secondary school students in physics is a matter of great concern to the Ministry of Education because physics is among the key subjects expected to make Kenya realize vision 2030. The performance at secondary school level has been poor for a long time. It is possible that gender influences performance of physics as a subject since there is a long standing belief that physics is a domain of male students. This study focused on th...
ABSTRACT In 2011 the payday loan industry is estimated to have lent $32 billion, collecting $7 billion in interest and fees (Dougherty, Carter, "Consumer Bureau Focuses on Payday Lending", Bloomberg Business Week, January 19 2012). The peak of payday lending came in the past decade but has started declining (Alp er, Alexandria, "US Payday Lenders Point Fingers to Blunt Crackdown", Reuters, January 20, 2012) with increased regulation and enforcement. In the case of regulation, the most common...
ABSTRACT This study is about information system research. It is an information systems research case study on GIPF ERP Implementation. The management replaced the Accountmate system with Oracle E-Business suite in 2009, as the best Enterprise Resource Planning solution. Research has shown that large IT projects such as ERP sometimes don’t meet expectations. Therefore, the GIPF CEO then commissioned a post-implementation review by Ernst & Young found in 2012 that the business processes were...
Abstract The Ministry of Education in Namibia has published the standards that identified twenty – nine aspects of the conditions of a school and its work and provide a way of quantifying the quality of each of these aspects. Seven key areas of the work of schools have been identified. Starting 2007, teams of evaluators begin a program of school evaluations. Grading has to be given to the work of the school on the seven key areas on a four – point scale. In each performance indicator illu...
ABSTRACT Micro-entrepreneurs have opened up international markets, increased exports and created employment worldwide. However, among many of the Africa informal economies, approximately 400,000 micro-entrepreneurs do not survive 3 years and 90% remain survival-focused. Previous researches have failed to analyze the benefits and inefficiencies of affective networks together. Empirical evidence on how micro-entrepreneurs can overcome restraining effects of affective networks is limited. Empiri...
ABSTRACT Members of the public expect practicing medical practitioners to be competent. They expect poorly performing medical practitioners to be identified and either helped or removed from practice. Competence and performance assessment of individual medical practitioner is crucial for life-long learning and quality of care. Policymakers and the Health Professions Council of Namibia (HPCNA) should have good insights into the strengths and weaknesses of the methods available. The aim of this...
ABSTRACT Following independence in 1961 the government of Tanzania invested heavily in Tanzania’s manufacturing sector allowing the sector to grow smoothly. Despite improvement in macro-economic stability in the 2000s, the performance of Tanzania’s manufacturing sector remains unimpressive. Manufacturing industries have received widespread public attention especially after Altman (1968) developed a Z-score model of measuring financial distress of the firms. However, most of the researche...
ABSTRACT Discussions around the public procurement system in the local media have been largely negative. Many articles have revealed mismanagement in the system. The emphasis of these articles has been on the need to uphold transparency and accountability in the way public procurement is conducted in Namibia. The Namibian experience is that the tendering process seems transparent on the surface, especially in connection with the sending out of tender invitations. However, the process becomes ...
ABSTRACT An overview of learners with special educational needs both internationally and nationally has been discussed. Initially, learners with special educational needs were catered for in special institutions. This situation seemed to discriminate against learners with special educational needs. With the call for human rights, there emerged the move toward inclusive education, which is based on a social justice paradigm of equal educational opportunities for all learners within the same cl...
ABSTRACT This study investigated the effects of learning styles on the performance of Grade 11 learners in Mathematics at one of the secondary schools in the Oshana education region. The study used both qualitative and quantitative approaches and it was carried out for four weeks. Using Kolb‟s (2005) Learning Style Inventory, learners‟ learning styles were identified and the learners were then grouped according to their learning styles as converging, diverging, assimilators and accommodat...
Abstract Bullying is regarded as an emotional issue which affects the entire school community. A lot of studies have been carried out in the developed world where it was concluded that bullying has short and long term negative effects on the lives of both victims and perpetrators. In Namibia, apart from this study, no study was carried out in order to determine the nature of bullying in Namibian schools. This is the main reason why this study was initiated in order to look into the extent to ...
ABSTRACT Although normal ageing does not imply disease, the incidence of chronic disease increases with age. Chronic diseases refer to those illnesses that last three to six months or more and are usually treatable but not curable, such as arthritis. Another major problem for elderly people is the prevalence of co-morbidity (several chronic diseases in one person) which makes treatment and quality of care and life more difficult. Therefore, caregivers have a major role in coordinating compreh...
ABSTRACT This study sought to determine teachers’ perception of the effectiveness of methods employed in teaching financial accounting in secondary schools in Egba education zone of Ogun State. A descriptive survey research design was adopted for the study. Six research questions and six null hypotheses (at 0.05 level of significance) guided the study. The population of the study consisted of all the 179 financial accounting teachers in the education zone. There was no sampling since the e...