ABSTRACT The purpose of the study was to find out staffs’ perceptions of the roles of school heads in financial management in senior high schools in the Komenda-Edina-Eguafo-Abrem Municipality. Data were gathered from a sample of 159 members of staff in 3 schools in the Komenda-Edina-Eguafo-Abrem Municipality using a questionnaire with an internal reliability co-efficient of .82. The data collected were analysed using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences version 16.0 software. The ...
ABSTRACT Increasing interests in comparative studies have led scholars to revisit the myth of the Great Goddess. While parallels of the Greek gods have been identified in Yorùbá mythology, there has not been a comparative study of the Great Goddesses. This study, therefore, examines the parallels between the Greek’s Great Goddess, Gaea, and Àtàgé, the Yorùbá Great Goddess of Ìbàdàn, to determine points of convergence between them in terms of origin, attributes, symbols and festiv...
ABSTRACT The study sought to look at community participation in rural secondary schools in the Atwima Mponua District of Ashanti. It examined contributions and views of parents, the local community and the various functionaries in the areas of community participation. The study used descriptive survey method and data were collected from respondents through questionnaire. The population was made up of the headmasters of the two Senior Secondary Schools, teachers, parents, members of the Boards...
ABSTRACT Mentoring in higher education has become an integral aspect of continuing professional development in teaching and many other fields. In Nigeria, a widely accepted theory of mentoring in higher education with a philosophical basis is yet to evolve. Existing studies on mentoring scarcely justifies a sound theoretical base to underpin policy and practice for Nigeria‟s higher education. This has resulted in a preponderance of vague variables for the application and appropriation of i...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to investigate the availability and state of infrastructure in rural senior high schools in the Assin North Municipality of the Central Region as perceived by the users of the infrastructure. The descriptive survey design approach was used for the study. A sample of 350 students, 110 teachers and 24 administrators was selected through purposive, stratified, simple random and census sampling procedures. A questionnaire and a semi-structured interview guid...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to assess the delivery of guidance services in Senior High Schools (SHSs) in Cape Coast Metropolis of Central Region, Ghana. A descriptive survey design was adopted. The population of the study comprised senior high students, guidance coordinators and teachers. Multistage sampling technique was used in selecting the sample for the study. A sample size of 531 (Wesley Girls=108, Adisadel College=115, Ghana National College=179 and University Practice SHS=1...
ABSTRACT The research was an attempt to find out the extent to which communities in the Dormaa Municipal area support girl-child education. The sample for the study consisted of one urban community, two peri-urban and two rural communities. In all 134 participants (some of whom were purposively selected and others randomly chosen) participated in the study. Data was collected through questionnaires and interview. The reliability of the questionnaire was tested at Cronbach Alpha value of 0.678...
ABSTRACT Public service retirees in South-West Nigeria face quite a number of challenges which affect their life satisfaction and overall well being; most often with resultant shortened life span few years after retirement. Previous studies have focused more on pension and other benefits as well as problems related with ageism without adequate consideration for the combined effects of socio-economic factors (accommodation, dependent children, family type, other dependents, community commitme...
ABSTRACT Nigeria has domesticated the Convention on the Rights of the Child, but majority of Nigerian children are still being denied their rights to survival, development, participation and protection from inhuman treatment and exploitation. Lack of awareness of child rights among Nigerian children is one of the major factors identified with child rights abuse. Earlier attempts on awareness creation were limited to activities of media and advocacy groups without empirically finding out the ...
ABSTRACT Decision-making is a tool of effective governance in all successful institutions whether it is corporate, educational or other. It was in line with that this study was undertaken to assess students’ participation in decision-making in the health training institutions in Accra. The accessible population, which comprised all students in all the health training institutions in Accra, was 860. Out of this the total sample used for the study was 394.The survey research quantitative para...
ABSTRACT The negative performance of most public organisations in Southwestern Nigeria are partly attributed to poor information sharing system arising from the defective Communication Styles (CS) being adopted by their management staff. Literature has shown that these defective CS can be corrected with a better understanding of factors such as personality traits, organisational and gender factors. However, previous studies on improving the CS and general performance in the public service ha...
ABSTRACT The purpose of the study was to describe twelfth grade students’ perception of the mathematics teachers’ teaching style, to describe the mathematics teachers’ perception of in-service education and training (INSET) programmes, and to investigate twelfth grade students’ achievement in Liberia Senior High School Certificate Examination (LSHSCE) mathematics and how it is influenced by teacher characteristics. The study took place in fourteen purposively selected senior high scho...
ABSTRACT The purpose of the study was to determine the effect of, moderation of continuous assessment scores on the overaIl performance scores of candidates at the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE). The descriptive research design was adopted for the study. The target population was the 278,413 candidates who registered for the 2004 BECE in all subjects. Schools were stratified into high, average and low performance categories depending on the performance of their candidates at t...
ABSTRACT Juvenile involvement in antisocial activities after reformation is on the increase in Nigeria, largely due to ineffective rehabilitation. Most juvenile offenders relapse into recidivism as a result of public rejection and realities of meeting up with their daily living, because they are early school leavers who had not learnt any trade before they were sent for correction. Previous studies on juvenile recidivism focused on juvenile justice administration, empowering youths in remand...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to investigate financial control practices in public second cycle schools in order to check whether there are financial irregularities in the use of school funds in the Cape Coast Metropolis. The study adopted cross-sectional survey with mixed methods design. Questionnaire and interview guide were used to collect data. The questionnaires were analysed using Statistical Product and Service Solution (SPSS) version 20.0. The interviews were also analysed us...