ABSTRACT Financial management in schools is bedevilled with challenges and so are rated low in terms of the administrative functions of headmasters in the district. This is a diagnostic study of the dilemmas that heads of schools face in financial management in secondary schools of the Nzema-East District. One hundred respondents expressed their views on the subject. Four sets of questionnaire and an interview guide were adopted as the main instruments for the study. Nine major questions were...
ABSTRACT This study investigated the relationship between home characteristics and students’ academic performance among public junior high school (JHS) students in Moree. Home characteristics of this study focused on parental involvement in school activities (PI), parents’ absence from home (PA), parental educational background (PE), and the major economic activity of parents (PO). The sample consisted of 200 students selected by the simple random sampling technique and census with parent...
ABSTRACT The study was an investigation into conflict management mechanisms in the administration of the faculties of the University of Cape Coast. The population was made up of Senior Members and Senior Support Staff of five faculties of the University of Cape Coast. In all, the study had a population of 695 respondents. Purposive sampling was used to select a sample of 189 respondents representing 27% of the population. The study was guided by five research questions which centered on the c...
ABSTRACT Efficient patient care in ~e wards of hospitals is a key component of nursing generally and in particular the caring for patients with HN/AIDS infections. It was on the basis of this that this study was done to assess the attitude of student nurses of the Presbyterian Nurses' Training College, Agogo towards PLWHAS. The study was on clinical situation and the study population was 217 and a sample size of 100 respondents was selected from the second and third year ' students. It was a ...
ABSTRACT Discipline has been defined in various ways by different authors. It is, therefore, not surprising that different groups have various perceptions of discipline. This dissertation on “Perception of Academic Staff and Students of Mfantsipim School on Discipline” therefore sought to find out the perceptions as they pertain in Mfantsipim School. The academic staff and the students were given questionnaires to select responses as they deemed necessary when questions on discipline were...
ABSTRACT Studies on Space Utilization in our educational institutions are not new but this is the first time a study on Space Utilization has been conducted in a privately owned tertiary institution in Ghana. This study, The Utilization of Teaching Space at Central University College was conducted specifically to find out the key challenges private universities face in the use of space and time in the day to day administration of their facilities and to provide information on Time Utilization...
ABSTRACT This study was conducted to examine the instructional supervisory roles of Circuit Supervisors in the North Tongu District of the Volta Region. This was a qualitative research underpinned by the interpretive paradigm. The design for the study was case study. Purposive sampling technique was used to select 1 Director of Education, 7 Circuit Supervisors, 5 headteachers who were chairmen of Conference of Heads of Basic schools and 7 of their Assistant heads. Data was gathered using se...
ABSTRACT This study, a descriptive survey, explored how effectively the mentoring programme of the Teacher Training Colleges was being carried out in basic schools in the Mfantseman and Abura-Asebu-Kwamankese districts. The subjects in the study were tutors and teachers –trainees of OLA Training College Cape Coast, head teachers and teachers in the two districts. It involved a sample of 274 people drawn from OLA Training College who were practising in selected schools from the two districts...
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...
ABSTRACT Before the introduction of the Music and Dance programme into the basic schools in Ghana in 1998, Music education had over the years been part of the Cultural Studies programme and had existed as a course of study in the then Secondary Schools with well defined objectives of producing a well balanced individual in the society. Music education nowadays has not been attractive to students nor to the teachers who teach it. The occasional changes which are meant to serve as corrective me...
ABSTRACT This study investigated motivational factors influencing retention of nurses at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra. It also looked at the measures that can be put in place at the hospital to improve retention of nurses in that health institution. Questionnaire was the instrument that was used to generate the data for the study from 120 nurses who worked at the hospital. These nurses were sampled using simple random sampling method from six departments at the hospital. The data g...
ABSTRACT The study was concerned with supervision in public basic schools in the Cape Coast Metropolis. Data were collected using questionnaire and interview guide for head teachers, circuit supervisors, teachers and prefects in public basic schools in the Cape Coast Metropolis. The sample was made up of 125 teachers, 25 headteachers, 5 circuit supervisors and 45 prefects. Interview guide and the questionnaire were the instruments used for data collection. The instruments were pre-tested in 1...
ABSTRACT The study was intended to find out whether the Computerized School Selection and Placement System (CSSPS) was a better alternative to the manual system in the process of selection of qualified students in the Senior High Schools (SHSs) in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana. A sample size of 306 was selected from a population of 994.Stratified and simple random sampling procedures were employed to select the subjects in the study sample. Respondents to the questionnaire and interview w...
ABSTRACT Participation of students in technical programmes has been on the decline since the inception of the Sunyani Polytechnic in 1991. Enrolment in technical subjects was very high when it was a Technical Institute. The study which was a descriptive survey sought to investigate factors responsible for the low participation of students in technical subjects. It also looked for conditions that will encourage higher participation levels. The study focused on factors affecting enrolment of st...
ABSTRACT This study sought to find out the factors influencing students’ attendance and performance in Ayeduase, Kotei, Deduako, Emena and its environs in the Kumasi Metropolis. A descriptive research design was used. Purposive sampling technique was employed in the selecting of the class six pupils and Head Teachers from each sampled school for the study. However, the random sampling technique was used in selecting teachers from each of the sampled schools. The data was obtained through qu...