ABSTRACT This study was undertaken to examine the relevance and appropriateness of the dual management structure of medical education in Nigeria with a view to identifying the issues within the structure which affect organizational efficiency in the medical school. The study population comprised the 26 federal and state government owned medical schools in Nigeria. A total of 512 respondents made up of 422 academic staff from the rank of Senior Lecturers and 90 administrative/technical staff w...
ABSTRACT The need to identify the ‗real‘ gifted children in Nigeria for proper placement into gifted schools and the operationalization of giftedness concept prompted the development and validation of the Giftedness Assessment Instrument (GAI). Following the process of item construction, GAI comprises three components derived from several sources in a manner that retains the merits and eliminates the demerits of the sources, hence it is said to be integrated. The three components are: Ab...
ABSTRACT This study set out to assess the level of English Language grammatical proficiency of public primary schoolteachers in Lagos State and the opportunities available to them for continuous professional development in the use of language. It also aimed at providing remedial programme for the teachers in areas of observed deficiency. The study employed descriptive survey and the Pretest-Posttest Control Group Experimental designs. The sample consisted of 575 teachers drawn from six Local ...
ABSTRACT This study examined some variables that are linked to student choice of courses and the implications of this on the achievement of the millennium development goals. The relationship of course prestige, earning potentials and employment opportunities to choice of courses was examined. Likewise the level of parental influence and gender on the student choice of courses was investigated by the study. The study focused on conventional universities in South-West, Nigeria. Survey and corre...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to determine desirable teacher attributes as perceived by administrators, teachers and pupils. The study was justifiable in the sense that most educationists and policy makers in Nigeria focus attention on the teacher, in various attempts to improve the quality of education. The descriptive research design was employed. The stratified random sampling technique was employed in the selection of the fifteen participating secondary schools in Lagos state. Th...
What are the claims of sacrifice made by Siddhartha as Herman Hesse depicts As a great Buddha once said,“the sacrifice which causes sorrow to the doer of the sacrifice is no sacrifice. Real sacrifice lightens the mind of the doer and gives him a sense of peace and joy. The Buddha gave up the pleasures of life because they had become painful to him.” This same concept applies to Siddhartha. Siddhartha has a lifelong journey to become enlightened. He gave up the people he loved and his own ...
ABSTRACT The research was designed to explore how Barack Obama constructs his self identities which enable him to get to power. This construction is reflected in his self life-writings including Dreams from My Father: A story of Race and Inheritance, The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the AmericanDream and Change We Can Believe In: Barack Obama’s Plan to RenewAmerica’s Promise. Postcolonial theories on identity construction were used for the reason that they reflect the multiple...
Abstract This survey study was conducted with the main objective of evaluating the use and services provision of MTN Foundation's Digital library project at University of Lagos, Nigeria with regards to the objectives of establishing it. A descriptive research approach was adopted for this study Questionnaire constituted the major instrument used for data collection even though the librarian in charge of this library was interviewed and documentary records consulted to obtain such data as list...
ABSTRACT The primary purpose of this study was to examine the factors that predispose youth of the Niger Delta to restiveness and find out how education in the form of skills acquisition and a general social education can help solve or reduce this social menace. Faulty socialization was identified as the basic reason for this malady. Other reasons include unemployment, poverty, marginalization, the problems in the Nigerian educational system, negative national values, lack of parental guidanc...
ABSTRACT This paper examines the impact of unnational urban agricultural activities in emakhandeni high density suburb of balavayo and its periphery and their implications for climate change and global warning.