Public relations practice involves a planned programme of activities. This is called public relations process: It includes research, planning, communication, and evaluation. In this article, you will read about public relations research in the school system, Public relations campaign and impact of the public relations programmes on its publics.
The school public relations department can be a task or scope structured. This is a function of school size and operations. In this article, you will read about the features of each of the structures, requirements of public relations department and domains of the public relations department or unit in the school system. The school public relations officer is a manager by status and information officer by function. You will read about the roles of a school public relations officer in the schoo...
Public relations practice in school is carried out through various approaches. These approaches such as; publicity, public enlightenment, persuasion, and dialogue are discussed alongside the challenges of school public relations practice. Strategies to make the practice more efficient and effective are also discussed.
Every profession is guided by codes of conduct, public relations is not an exemption. In this article, the definition of public relations ethics and codes of conduct as enacted by The Nigerian Institute Of Public Relations are paraphrased. The benefits of ethical code of conduct to the school public relations practice and strategies are also discussed. The second segment of the article, discusses the school public relations policy statements and legal implications with samples.
ABSTRACTThis study analysed a five years 2010-2014 comparative study of physic students’ academic achievement in West African Examination Council in Ogoja Local Government Area. Literature review was carried out based on the sub-variables. The attempt was to highlight their achievement levels in West African Examination Council, the following hypotheses were formulated for testing; there is no significant difference between students’ physics achievement in public and private senior second...
ABSTRACTThe purpose of this study was to ascertain resource funding provision and students performance in secondary school in Yakurr Local Government Area, Cross River State. Three null hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance using chi-square (x2) analysis. The instrument used for data collection was the questionnaire on resource funding provision and students performance (RFPSP). The sample comprised of two hundred (200) respondents drawn from five (5) schools in the study area....
ABSTRACTThe study sought to investigate staff management and teachers’ commitment to job in secondary schools in Yala Local Government Area. Three hypotheses were formulated to guide the study. Literatures related to the variables under the study were reviewed. Survey research design was adopted for the study. A sample of 100 subjects were randomly selected and used for the study. Primary and secondary data were collected through questionnaire and review of relevant literature respectively....
The need to ensure quality in assessing pre-service students on teaching practice so that decisionmade on their performance is reliable and valid necessitated that reliability and validity of ratingthem is always determined. It is important that students on pre-service teaching practice arereliably and validly assessed. Nevertheless available evidence hardly shows that this is thepractice in teacher training institutions in Nigeria. In the absence of sufficient empirical evidenceto show that ...
The purpose of the study was to investigate teachers’ knowledge and attitude towards education for sustainability. One hundred and fifty (150) Secondary School Science Teachers were selected for the study using an adapted questionnaire to collect relevant data. Their responses were analysed using descriptive statistics. The findings of the study showed that teachers had positive attitude toward the teaching of education for sustainability, similarly, they are also aware and can explain ...
ABSTRACT This paper review examined the utilization of TVET as a tool for economic growth and development in a recessed economy. It briefly discussed the concept of recession with emphasis on Nigeria; some of the indicators of recession were also identified. It analyzed the concept of technical and vocational education while identifying some of its objectives. One of the objectives of TVET significant to this study was its emphasis on skill acquisition and self-reliance. Some challenges ...
The school publics are individuals, group of individuals or organizations that are interested in the school activities or whom the school activities impact on. Besides, those whose activities impact on school programmes and image are also referred to as the school publics.
The practice of school public relations is grossly misconceived by people and practitioners who entered the profession by chance. To correct the misconception, an effort is made to define school public relations practice from professional context as enunciated by renowned public relations practitioners and educationists. Moreover, its goals and benefits are discussed.
Public relations practitioners interact with publics through information dissemination. This is achievable through many means called public relations media. The write-up, therefore, identifies personal contact, telecommunications (telecoms) corporate advertising, publications, special events, mass media, souvenirs and direct mail as various media available for efficient and effective school public relations practice. An attempt is also made to acquaint readers of the strength and setback of e...
ABSTRACTThe Christians’ persecution in Nigeria especially in the Northeast region has resulted in an unprecedented record of Christian casualties. The question is “who are the persecutors and what are the effects of persecution”? As Christians are destabilized and scattered in the north, what happened to Christianity as they relocated to other regions? The Christians in the Roman Empire also suffered a great deal of persecution not knowing when it will end until Constantine was r...
At independence, African leaders demonised capitalism and colonialism, declaring both as evil and exploitative. They thus advocated for an alternative strategy in mobilizing African resources to attain a rapid rate of economic growth and development for the benefit of its people. Socialism was therefore, adopted as the only approach upon which Africa's development is anchored. The socialist ideology garbed in African tradition was widely adopted. Its proponents described it as an ...