ABSTRACT School attachment is an important component of teacher education. Public universities have thus designed their own rules and regulations that guide school attachment practices to enable student teachers put into practice the theory they have learnt. However, school attachment practices by teacher training institutions remain a contentious issue. The purpose of this study was to establish the effect of school attachment practices on student teacher performance in teaching practice in ...
ABSTRACT The Government of Kenya and non-governmental organizations have promoted interventions or projects aimed at improving water situations in the Arid and Semi-Arid Lands though with some low level of sustainability. Initiating projects to ease accessibility to water in Arid and Semi-Arid Lands is a good cause; however, without proper planning and integrated approach that ensures sustainability of water sources and its accessibility, such projects will not have lasting impact. This proje...
Abstract Increasing water productivity is generally explained as either produce similar yield using less water or obtaining more crop yields using the same water resources. Water is becoming scarce due increase in population as well as competition with other non-agricultural demands. At Insukamini Surface Irrigation Scheme, farmers over apply water volumes with the idea that they can increase their yield. However, the Scheme has been facing challenges of yield decline from 2009 to 2014. Thi...
ABSTRACT Food production issues have dominated Kenyan Government development planning agenda for decades. Low food production have been experienced especially in areas where cash crops such as sugarcane are grown as it competes for rich agricultural land with food crops. Despite income from sugarcane, some households in Dede Division are still experiencing food shortages. This study assessed the effects of sugarcane farming on food production in Dede Division, Migori County. The specific obje...
ABSTRACT The first five years of a child play a critical role in laying a solid foundation for primary, secondary and future learning of any student or pupil. Hence, the quality of Early Childhood Education which leads to the acquisition of basic competencies among preschoolers is crucial for a child’s subsequent learning and Educational advancement. In spite of the great importance associated with the Early Childhood Development and Education in Kenya, the government’s effort to ensure t...
ABSTRACT In sub-Saharan Africa, about 250 million people (67%) lack safe accessible water while 81% of the rural population lacks sanitation facilities (Rose and Vincent1999). People spend 40 billion hours every year just walking for water. Women and children usually bear the burden of water collection, walking miles to the nearest source. Along their long walk, they are subjected to a greater risk of harassment and sexual assault. According to National Water Polocy (2002) despite significant...
Abstract The study focussed on sanitation, hygiene and retention of girls in Junior High Schools (JHS) in the Wa Municipality. This study sought to find out the causes of the state of school sanitation and hygiene, the coping strategies and the social consequences on girl child education in the Wa Municipality in Ghana. Both probability and non-probability sampling methods were used to select a sample size of 290 respondents from the various stakeholders of the study. Data collection tools su...
ABSTRACT Non-governmental Organisations (NGOs) are important allies in the socio-economic development agenda of countries across the globe. This study therefore sought to identify the roles played by one NGO called Plan Ghana International to enhancing the livelihood patterns in the socio-economic development of people. The objectives of the study were first of all to identify the focus and coverage of the activities of Plan Ghana and the laws governing the operations of NGOs in the study ar...
ABSTRACT Financing local government development presents a worrying scenario to many Municipal, Metropolitan, and District Assemblies (MMDAs). While some MMDAs are well endowed with resources, others have less. However, how efficient and effective actors are able to identify, exploit and allocate these resources inform how developed their society may be. It is on this note that this study was conducted to examine the potentials and challenges of internal revenue mobilisation in the East Gonj...
ABSTRACT Poverty is one of the most captivating challenges facing most developing countries and Ghana is no exception. There seems to be a wide gap between the haves and the have not. To curb poverty, micro-finance has emerged as an antidote to the problem of poverty. Micro-finance encompasses micro-credit, micro-insurance and micro-savings. The SIF has therefore emerged as an institution that champions poverty reduction in its operation area and has adopted microfinance as one of the vehi...
ABSTRACT Effective and efficient security systems of organisations guarantee their safety. It is in this context that security personnel absenteeism poses a serious challenge to managements worldwide. It is on this basis that the study was conducted to find out the causes, effects and management implication of absenteeism on the Wa Campus of the University for Development Studies (UDS). The large student numbers, scattered locations of facilities both on the main Campus at Bamahu and the sate...
ABSTRACT School Feeding Programmes have been popular in developing countries as an instrument for achieving the Millennium Development Goals 1, 2 and 3. With respect to the Ghana School Feeding Programme (GSFP) the role of the farmer in contributing to its success has received little attention in academic discourse. On that basis, this study therefore focused on investigating farmers’ participation as a critical component to the implementation of the GSFP in the West Gonja District. Case s...
ABSTRACT Since the return of Ghana to multiparty democratic regime from 1992 to 2008, Ghana has gone through five major successive general elections and has received numerous commendations all over the world. Incidentally, all these elections were associated with electoral violence. This study aimed at studying the causes, nature, and effects of electoral violence in the Upper West Region of Ghana. The objective of the study included how electoral violence affect the credibility of the elec...
ABSTRACT The study sought to establish public perception of Zoomlion’s solid waste management services in the Tamale Metropolis. The study employed the case study research design in collecting and analyzing data from 150 respondents through the use of structured questionnaires and interview guides. The study established that there is marked improvement in waste management in the Tamale Metropolis by Zoomlion Ghana Limited. Significant proportions of respondents now dump their household wa...
ABSTRACT Community participation in educational management is seen as a measure to enhancing educational provision and quality educational achievement in the face of competing demands on government resources and declining educational achievement. In the context of the Nadowli district, the author assessed community participation in educational management with particular reference to the Parent Teacher Association. The study was a survey of 25 PTAs out of a total of 54. PTA executives, Head t...