ABSTRACT The performance in mathematics and sciences in Kenyan secondary schools has remained low for many years. The Strengthening of Mathematics and Sciences in Secondary Education (SMASSE) project was introduced as a joint project between the Kenya government and Japan in order to improve the performance in these subjects in KCSE examination. Despite this, the improvement in performance in mathematics and sciences has not been very significant. This study aimed at investigating the factors...
ABSTRACT This research investigated the implication that orphanage management has on the educational performance of orphaned learners. Its purpose was to determine how orphanages are managed both as homes and schools in terms of meeting the orphaned learners’ needs and the impact of the management on the educational performance of the orphaned learners. The research was conducted in Kisauni sub-county, Mombasa County. It was guided by four objectives and four research questions. The objecti...
ABSTRACT A school is not an island, but part of the community in which it exists. Learners are members of the community. The community also supplies the school with teachers, finances and other physical facilities and it expects the school to transform its learners into able, skilled and knowledgeable people who can serve the nation. Schools activities should therefore reflect; as far as possible, the nature and aspirations of community. There should be an active partnership between the scho...
In all developing countries sciences education is being called upon to play an even more important role in the future. More students are needed to become competent in the key science subjects of physics, chemistry, and biology. For an all round contribution, there is need to involve both men and women. This study focused on gender differences in students’ achievement in Secondary School chemistry. In addition to the main purpose, the study sought to identify the factors that contribute...
There has been a wave of violence strikes that had threatened to paralyze learning in many Secondary Schools country wide. In the month of June 2007 over 300 strikes were reported. This saw students disrupt learning, besides destroying property worth millions of shilling. Indiscipline in schools had reached unmanageable levels, as teachers were unable to enforce discipline as their hands were tied by law as corporal punishment had been banned by the Government through legal notice No. 56...
ABSTRACT The study examined the influence of socio-physical environment on the quality of secondary education in Mfangano Island, Mbita District in Homa Bay County. The objectives were to investigate the influence of Lake Victoria on accessibility to learning institutions, to find out landscape factors influencing curriculum implementation, to determine the contribution of religious institutions on the quality of secondary education and to identify the contribution of home-school partnership ...
Education for All (EFA) remains a major concern to all stakeholders in the field of education worldwide and Kenya in particular. This requires that the learning needs of all pupils be met. However, academic performance in national examination like KCPE continues to negatively affect the quality of education for learners with hearing impairments. Inspite of scholarly attempts to address the cause of this problem having been carried out, the possibility of good KCPE performance of learners...
ABSTRACT Research on the role of internationalisation to the growth and development of higher education has steadily grown over the past decades. However, there is limited knowledge on the understanding of the process of internationalisation particularly in African higher education. To fill the gap, this study explored the key stakeholders understanding of the process of internationalisation in Kenyan Universities. The study was guided by four objectives: 1) To explore how role-players in Ken...
ABSTRACT Worldwide, education has been declared a fundamental need just as food, shelter and clothing. According to the United Nations (1948), everyone has a right to education. Despite the educational development like the government‟s effort to improve quality of education, the academic performance has been chronically poor in most of the public secondary schools in Butula Sub-County, Busia County. The purpose of this study was to establish the influence of school-based factors on academi...
ABSTRACT The importance of tertiary education in our socio-economic growth projections cannot be gainsaid. It is the engine for technological growth in any country. Yet most Diploma students specializing in engineering courses fail the final examinations administered by KNEC every year. The purpose of this study was to determine the specific causes of poor performance in our tertiary institutions. A four- year analysis of performance in three Technical colleges was undertaken to highlight the...
ABSTRACT Stress is considered a major global health challenge affecting the well being of service providers especially those working in the human service sectors like teachers, health care providers, media specialists and security agencies. The sources of stress are attributed to socio-economic, occupational and political pressures of modern life. This study was prompted by emerging information from studies that stress is a silent killer that affects the health of service providers leading t...
Being the official medium of instruction in institutions of learning, English language proficiency is pivotal to successful undertaking of professional courses pursued in tertiary colleges and universities. When dismally performed in Kenya Certificate of Secondary Examination (KCSE), it heralds to major concerns. This has been the predicament in Kirinyaga East secondary schools year in year out. The title of this study is “Integration of Information Communication and Technology in teac...
ABSTRACT Education is a key factor to the development of any nation in the world. It has been the intension of the government that all KCPE candidates join secondary schools. Since 2003, the government has been providing funds to all public primary schools to promote access and education standards in all parts of the country. However, quite a number of public primary schools have been performing poorly in KCPE. In Nakuru North District, the average KCPE performance in 2011 was 222.5 marks. Th...
ABSTRACT The purpose of the study was to find out the impact of in-service training of head teachers on their effectiveness in school development planning in Gatundu district, Kiambu County in Kenya. The objectives of the study were: to establish whether head teachers have received any in-service training related to school development planning; to find out the impact of such training on school development planning effectiveness; to identify challenges experienced by head teachers in school d...
ABSTRACT The Government of Kenya led an emergency response to provide and improve the situation of the street children, youth and families, which was initiated in 2003 and commenced in 2004. This led to establishment of rehabilitation centres to cater for children from the streets. Care-givers were employed to perform responsibilities of reforming and promoting the developmental aspects of these children through rehabilitation, according to set standards in the country. However, this is not ...