ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to compare the programmes available in Anglophone and Francophone Africa for the training of adult educators. Ghana and Nigeria were selected representative Anglophone Countries, and Zaire and the Congo were chosen from among Francophone Countries. The study focussed on the following aspects of the training of Adult Educators: The major policies underlying the training of adult educators in the selected countries. The roles assigned to formal and non-fo...
ABSTRACT The study was carried out to investigate level of preparedness of Zimbabwe to Ebola Virus Disease. Tsholotsho District Hospital was the study site. A case study design was used. A sample size of 20 health care workers was used as study participants. Stratified random sampling was used to select study participants. Questionnaires were used to collect data. The study findings revealed that health care workers have limited knowledge on Ebola disease. The health care workers are not con...
ABSTRACT There are several methods of teaching that can be used in the teaching and learning of History at Ordinary Level. Field work activities in History present students with a chance to interact with the physical and human environment and try to draw relationships between the two. An understanding of these interaction creates an awareness of how human being should interact and draw future conclusions. Fieldwork presents the chance to interact and understand the relationships and processe...
ABSTRACT This study investigated the effect of literacy approaches on the socio- economic life of migrant fishermen in Lagos State. It examined the extent to which some identified approaches would promote literacy acquisition among the Migrant Fishermen, and how their personal variables like sex, age, marital status and level of education influenced their literacy acquisition. A total number of one hundred and sixty fishermen were selected from Badagry, Ibeju-Lekki, Epe and Amuwo-Odofin Local...
ABSTRACT This study was primarily aimed at investigating the social, economic and psychological problems of unmarried teenage mothers and factors that will influence unmarried teenage mothers' re-entry into continuing education programmes in Lagos State. It is equally important to note that social and psychological problems in this study refer to the problems associated with self-esteem, family and peer relationships encountered by the unmarried teenage mothers. Also investigated were the eco...
ABSTRACT The study examined the psycho-socioeconomic factors that motivate women's participation in NGO's non-formal education programmes in Lagos state of Nigeria. In view of this, the study identified the various non-formal education programmes organized by NGOs in which women participate in Lagos State as well as the psychological, social and economic factors which motivated the women to participate in such programmes. In addition, the study investigated the demographic characteristics of ...
Abstract A qualitative study to determine the capacity of rural communities in emergency preparedness and response for cholera emergencies was carried out in three wards of Zaka rural district. The vulnerability of communities to health disasters warranted the need to explore the cholera preparedness of the Zaka communities. A descriptive survey was used in the study. Household interviews were conducted on forty (46) respondents, four (4) Key informants from the two (2) rural health centres ...
ABSTRACT This study sought to find out the challenges being faced in the use and teaching of computers in secondary schools in Chihota District, Zimbabwe. Six secondary schools in the Chihota rural area participated in the study. Questionnaires and interviews were used as research instruments. Literature related to the topic was reviewed in Chapter Two in order to get an insight on the topic so as to develop a framework upon which findings were based. The findings revealed that there were pro...
ABSTRACT This study was a contribution to the limited literature and knowledge on the performance of the rural informal sector businesses. The study sought to conduct an investigation of the factors contributing to limited growth in youth informal sector businesses in Masvingo Province: A Case Study of Zaka District. The study was motivated by the understanding that the informal sector was viewed as having great potential for employment creation and driving economic development. The investiga...
ABSTRACT This study was designed to evaluate the perception of adults as major stakeholders on the implementation of the rural development programmes in Edo State, Nigeria. Primarily, the study sought to identify the types of rural development programmes, determine the usefulness of the programmes, the level of performance in terms of the extent of attainment of objectives, level of durability, impact of the programmes provided, the strategies employed for their execution and the extent of i...
ABSTRACT The study presents an informative investigation on the understaffing of nurses in mission hospitals a case for Mashoko Mission hospital. The purpose of the study was to determine the cause, effects and solutions to understaffing of nurses. Literature review was done on global perspective, continental regional zeroing to Mashoko Mission hospital, where understaffing of nurses was discovered to be a chronic health personnel problem. The causes, and solutions proved to be different with...
ABSTRACT The main objective of this study was to investigate the different ways in which adults in Nigeria utilised radio for learning modern ideas. To this end, a random sample of six hundred adults, who owned or had access to radio sets was carried out. The geographical representation from which the selection was made were Ogun, Niger and Anambra states. Three urban and three rural communities, each with 100 respondents were selected. With the use of a questionnaire, they were asked to indi...
ABSTRACT The research study sought to find the factors contributing to poor performance in English at ordinary level in rural schools in Umguza district. Qualitative research design was used. It enabled the researcher to look at various aspects of the study in their natural setting. Purposive sampling was used to select school heads, English teachers and ordinary level pupils who participated in the study. The researcher used interview and observation guides as well as document analysis to ge...
ABSTRACT This study sought to investigate the issues and challenges playing out on teachers in the implementation of the new grade 3 science and technology curriculum. Further, the study sought to establish the nature of the challenges and how they can be overcome. In order to better illustrate a more detailed picture of the challenges playing out on teachers in implementing the new curriculum, a mixed method research design was implemented where data was collected using both qualitative and ...
ABSTRACT The study sought to investigate the challenges faced by pupils in composition writing at Ordinary Level and to identify possible causes and solutions to the challenges in three secondary schools in Kadoma urban area. The researcher employed the descriptive survey method. In this study 14 teachers and one hundred and twenty pupils were the sample. Three hundred and sixty composition exercise books from the three secondary schools were the documents analysed. The questionnaire, the doc...