ABSTRACT The study examined the challenges and prospects of the UEW distance education programme. The design for the study was a descriptive survey whereby data were collected to answer the research questions. The sample for the study was 381 comprising 168 diploma students, 201 post-diploma students, 9 tutors/lecturers and 3 study centre coordinators. The stratified random sampling techniques were used in selecting the sample. Questionnaire was the main instrument used for the collection o...
ABSTRACT This study was about teacher participation in decision-making. It was conducted in the Shama Ahanta East Metropolis. In all, 152 respondents, comprising 143 teachers and 9 heads of schools from 15 schools were employed in the study. Questionnaire and interview schedule were the main instruments used for data collection. The questionnaire was used to obtain responses from the teachers while the heads of institutions were interviewed by use of interview schedule. The data were analyse...
ABSTRACT The study was conducted to investigate the level of job satisfaction among senior staff of the University of Education, Winneba, and find out ways to promote their job satisfaction in the university. The research design used for the study was descriptive survey. A total sample of 155 senior staff was selected for the study. Simple random technique, using the lottery method was used to select the respondents from each campus. The instrument used for gathering data was the questionna...
ABSTRACT Considering the fact that teacher turnover rate is very high in the country, this study sought to find out the factors that influence the recruitment and retention of basic school teachers in the Akatsi District ofGhana. Purposive and stratified sampling techniques were employed to select subjects for the study. A questionnaire which was the main instrument was used to collect the data. A documented data which indicated the turnover rates of male and female teachers from 1998/99 to ...
ABSTRACT The study assessed the quality in education of private senior high schools in the East Akim municipality of Ghana. The research design used for the study was descriptive survey. A total sample of 207 including 9 headmasters, 98 teaching staff and 100 prefects, was selected for the study. All the 9 school heads and 100 students were purposively selected. The simple random sampling technique was used to select the teachers. The instrument used for gathering data was questionnaire. The...
ABSTRACT This study was designed to fInd out the contributions of World Vision Ghana (WVG) to the development of basic education in the Twifo Hemang-Lower Denkyira District (THLDD) in the Central Region in Ghana. The study involved a sample of 469, comprising 24 district education officials, 10 DEOC members, 24 headteachers, 13 staff of WVG (Twifo ADP), the head of education and capacity building - WVG, 48 child welfare service officers (CWSO), 120 parents and 240 community members. The quest...
ABSTRACT This study focused on the challenges and coping strategies of student workers without study leave with pay in the University of Cape Coast. A set of questionnaire was used to collect data from the respondents. In all, 84 studentworkers were sampled through the use of the snowball sampling method to serve as respondents for the study. Descriptive statistics was used to analyse the data on the demographic profile and all the research questions formulated for the study. Frequencies, me...
ABSTRACT The main purpose was to find out the availability, adequacy and state of learning resources in the Junior High Schools (JHSs) in the Mfantseman Municipality in the Central Region of Ghana. It further wanted to find out how heads as well as teachers manage these available learning resources. In all 202 teachers and 70 headteachers were involved in the study. The headteachers were requested to answer 50 items whilst the teachers had 49 items. The entire respondents answered closed-end...
ABSTRACT The study investigated perceptions and experiences of administrators and students on human rights and freedoms in the University of Cape Coast (UCC). The research questions provided a framework for this study while the Cultural Reproduction and Structural Violence theory offered useful theoretical frames for understanding social justice and human rights in higher education in Ghana. The study adopted a qualitative research design, using the case study approach to examine, understan...
ABSTRACT The purpose of the study was to find out the problems women administrators face as they perform work-home roles. The study investigated the nature of the conflict and gender roles that conflict with their participation in educational administration. The study also tried to identify the support the female administrators get from their family members as they perform their dual responsibilities and how to manage work-home conflict. The study employed the descriptive survey design. The...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to assess the communication practices in the administration of senior high schools (SHSs) in the Keta Municipality. A descriptive survey involving the use of questionnaires was employed to solicit information from students, staff and headmasters of the schools. A questionnaire was designed to find out the communication tools used mostly in the administration of SHSs in the Keta Municipality. It sought to find out how subordinates (staff and students) com...
ABSTRACT The study was on stakeholders’ perception on the effectiveness of supervision in junior high schools within the Okai Koi Sub–Metropolitan area of Accra. It was specifically to ascertain the state of supervision in the schools, the type of supervision more emphasized and the one teachers like more. Eighteen junior high schools were used for the study. One hundred and forty four teachers comprising four males and four female teachers from each of the 18 selected schools took part i...
ABSTRACT This study specifically attempted to find out whether academic performance among J.H.S 3 students, teachers and parents could be attributed to some home environmental factors such as parental encouragement, parental education, parental occupation, family size and learning facilities at home. The researcher employed the use of questionnaire and focus group discussion to gather data for this work. Out of the four hundred (400) respondents that were sampled from the five strata, three h...
ABSTRACT In the Cape Coast Municipality, there are single sex senior high schools and co-educational senior high schools. The study set out to investigate how students in the single sex senior high schools perceived the administrative functions of the heads. The purpose was to examine how the heads of the schools played their administrative roles. The research employed a descriptive survey. Purposive and random sampling techniques were used to draw a sample size of 640 from five single sex se...
ABSTRACT The administration of Secondary Schools today, according to Alani (2000), can no longer be reduced to rule-of-thumb since schools are becoming increasingly complex. The purpose of the study was to identify the challenges faced by administrators in the administration of Senior High Schools in the Kpeshie Sub Metropolitan Education Directorate of the Accra Metropolitan area. In all, 5 day and boarding public Senior High Schools were used in the study. The schools were purposively selec...