ABSTRACT This purpose of this study was meant to analyze the importance and effects of school feeding programme on access to primary education among the socio-economically and nutritionally vulnerable children in unplanned settlement of Kibera. The study strove to help education managers to understand the problems and challenges that have, for long time, kept a large number of children out of school despite the abolition of all levies in primary schools in 2003. It is envisaged that appropri...
ABSTRACT This study sought to establish the roles played by HODs in administrative duties in secondary schools in Kiambu District, Kiambu County. The study focused on the key administrative areas of curriculum, instruction, financial management, teacher management and student management with the aim of comparing expected roles of Heads of Departments against how these roles are perceived by the teachers, head teachers and HODs themselves. Hopefully this is going to justify a training needs a...
ABSTRACT This study sought to investigate the impact of land clashes on access to primary and secondary education in Chepyuk settlement scheme, Mt Elgon district. The objectives of the study were to assess the impact of land clashes on enrolment, staffing, and educational infrastructure. The study adopted the descriptive survey design where the three secondary and fifteen primary schools in the region were sampled purposively. The respondents included eighteen head teachers, seventy two teac...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study is to investigate the challenges that are faced by headteachers in managing the human resource in their schools and the impact the challenges have on teaching and learning in the schools. The objectives of the study were to find out the issues that face the headteachers in recruitment, induction, development and motivating teachers in their schools, to investigate the challenges headteachers face in managing the support staff in their schools, to examine th...
ABSTRACT In Kenya, user charges can be classified as one of the factors that influence the participation in secondary education; they typically add to the cost of education faced by households resulting to children from the poor households being in and out of school due to financial constraints. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of user charges on participation in education among students in Kitui County, Kenya. The objectives of this study were to identify the types of...
ABSTRACT Physical Education is an integral and vital part of a learner's school education. It is one of the "core" subjects, endowed with the same status as English, Kiswahili and Mathematics in the secondary school curriculum. It is known for its immense benefits to the students in terms of their social and physical wellbeing. The main purpose of this study was, therefore, to determine the actual status of the Physical Education curriculum in secondary schools. The survey research method wa...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of electronic media in teaching and learning. The study was carried out in Gokwe South District in Midlands Province. The population of this study consisted of two secondary schools in Gokwe South District. These two secondary school were chosen through purposive sampling technique. The sample comprises of 35 teachers from two schools. The researcher also uses purposive sampling to interview the school heads, school depute ...