ABSTRACT The purpose of the study was to ascertain the nature and challenges of supervision in the Ablekuma North Sub-Metropolis. The study population was 662 teachers, 46 head teachers and 5 circuit supervisors. Simple random, purposive and stratified sampling procedures were used to select 271 respondents comprising 220 teachers, 46 head teachers and five circuit supervisors. The researcher used questionnaires to collect data and the response rate was 92.3%. The data was analyzed using desc...
ABSTRACT This study investigated the effect of work place environment on the performance of tutors of Tamale College of Education and the tutors of Bagabaga College of Education. The environment that people are required to work in can have a significant impact on their ability to undertake the tasks that they have been asked to do. Louise further stated that work environment could also have an impact on an individual's ability to work safely, competently and in compliance with operational per...
Abstract It is a lll1iversally acknowledged fact that education is a vital enterprise geared towards the acquisition of skills, values and knowledge. It is the key to the development of any nation, because it develops the human resource needeg for socio-economictransformation. Thus, every progressive and civilized society thrives on values such as diligence, tolerance, honesty? respect and consideration for others, courtesy, decorum, decency and love among others. These are some of the views ...
ABSTRACT The study sought to find out the causes of school dropout in the Sekyere South District of the Ashanti Region of Ghana. The researcher used descriptive survey as the research design and questionnaires were used as the data collection instrument. A total number of two hundred and forty (240) respondents were sampled for the study: One hundred (100) pupils, ninety (90) parents, thirty (30) dropouts and twenty (20) teachers. Parents and dropouts were selected on snowballing sampling tec...
ABSTRACT The purpose of the study was to identity the challenges in deliveries and family planning services in the Berekum District. The study sought to investigate the extent to which clients and private midwives have interest with the students mid wives and the relationship of the students to their clients. The descriptive survey design was used for the study. A total of 80 respondents were used for the study comprising 60 randomly sampled clients, 5 professional midwife and 15 ward assista...
ABSTRACT The study was conducted to see how effective the heads of Senior Secondary Schools in the Ga district are. The study sought to investigate the perception of teachers and students of the leadership effectiveness of these heads in the Ga District of the Greater Accra Region. The respondents of the study were teachers and students of five Senior Secondary Schools in the Ga district, namely the Presbyterian Boys Secondary School (Presec), St John's Grammar School, West Africa Secondary S...
ABSTRACT The study which used descriptive survey design was basically to find out the attitudes of Muslim parents towards girl-child education in Bawku municipality in the upper-east region of Ghana. A sample of 100 respondents form communities in the Bawku Municipality comprised 25 farmers, 25 unemployed youth, 25 opinion leaders and 25 petty traders was used. A questionnaire was used as the instrument for data collection and the data were analysed using descriptive statistics. A main findin...
ABSTRACT This study was concerned with recruitment and retaining of teachers in the Ahanta West District of the Western Region of Ghana. The highlights were on the quantity, quality, factors that attract and those that do not attract teachers and what could be done to retain teachers in the long run. The descriptive survey was the research design that was used. Three questionnaires were the instruments employed for data collection. A sample of 239 respondents was chosen out of the population ...
ABSTRACT Although there is equal access to education for all, at all the level of education in Ghana, there is still low female enrolment in the higher levels Ghanaian teacher-training institutions. In order to increase the number of females in these institutions, the Teacher Education Division of the Ghana Education Service introduced the access course. However, there is no information on how tutors and students of the Northern Training Colleges perceive this access course. The objective of ...
ABSTRACT Despite the efforts made by various governments in Ghana to expand and improve the quality of education at various stages of our educational institution, there are still a whole lot of students who are not able to make the required grades to enable them further their education at the Senior High School after their Basic Education Certificate Examination. (B.E.C.E). Islamic schools in the Tamale metropolis are among the schools in Ghana that have enjoyed the provision of educational i...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this research was to find out the factors affecting female enrolment in basic schools in the Twifo Hemang Lower Denkyira District .Using the District as the case study. A total of 150 parents, 100 teachers and 150 dropout girls formed the accessible population. Within a period of two months, the researcher and his two assistants interviewed all the 400 respondents. Data collected were analysed manually and electronically by using descriptive statistical tools such as s...
ABSTRACT The study was prompted by an observation made by the researcher about the apparent absence of involving students of senior secondary in the Tano District of Brong Ahafo Region of Ghana in school decision-making. The study explored the nature of the existing structures of decision-making and the factors that discourage students from participating in school decision-making among others. The population for the study was made up of students, teachers and all , ; headmasters from the six ...
ABSTRACT The study aimed at finding out students’ perception of sources of conflict in senior high schools. The study was a descriptive survey involving a sample size of 300 participants. This included 100 first year students, 100 second year students and 100 third year students in the two public senior high schools in the Asikuma-Odoben-Brakwa District of the Central Region in Ghana. Besides the literature search, a 43-item questionnaire was used to collect data for the study. The questio...
ABSTRACT This study set out to investigate the utilization of teachers in Mfantsipim . . School in the Cape Coast Municipality ofthe Central Region of Ghana; considering such indicators as instructional time management and teaching load and its relation to the performance of the students at the end of the senior secondary school programme. A descriptive survey method was adopted for this research. All teachers in the school were used as the sample for the study. Copies of the Questionnaire w...
ABSTRACT The study was to determine how the decentralisation policy is being implemented in the Senior high schools in the Cape Coast Metropolis in the context of Decentralisation in Ghana. Specifically the study assessed the structures put in place to decentralise administration in the senior high schools. The descriptive survey design was employed to shape the study, while the purposive and stratified sampling methods were used to select a sample of 232 respondents from the ten senior hig...