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QUALITY CONTROL VARIABLES AS DETERMINANT OF QUALITY OF EDUCATION IN NURSERY/ PRIMARY SCHOOLS IN IBADAN SOUTH LOCAL GOVERNMENT, IBADAN, OYO STATE
Get PDFEnsuring quality control in today’s nursery/primary schools has become a challenge. Quality control has become essential for stakeholders in the education sector and they need to harness the tools of quality control to ensure quality education in the nursery and primary schools in Ibadan south local government, Ibadan. The study adopted the ex-post facto research design, while simple random sampling technique was adopted in selecting two hundred (200) participants from the selected study area. Questionnaire was used to collect data from the participants. Linear Regression Test was used. Result showed significant relationship between funding and teacher quality at B= -432, P<.05, management organizing skill and teacher quality at B =.513, P<.05 and supervision and teacher quality at B =.632, P<.05. The study recommended that quality of education can further be enhanced by ensuring that various quality control measures are put in place in the nursery/primary schools in the local government area of concern in this study
ASSESSMENT, INNOVATION STRATEGIES OF E-LEARNING AND SOCIAL NETWORKING FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AMONG POST GRADUATE STUDENTS IN PUBLIC UNIVERSITIES IN RIVERS STATE
Get PDFThe paper examined the assessment of innovation strategies of e-learning and social networking for sustainable development among post graduate students in public universities students in Rives State. A descriptive research survey design was adopted and a sample size of 136 post graduate students from the study area, representing 10% of the population, was used for the study. A stratified random sampling technique was adopted to identify the sample element for the study. A questionnaire titled “Assessment Innovation Strategies of e-learning Social Networking Questionnaire” (AISeLSNQ) was used and complimented with document analyses. The research questions were analyzed using mean scores, standard deviation, rank order and decision rules while z-test statistical tool was used to test the null hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The findings reveals that innovation strategies on e-learning and social network have significant impact on the academic performance of post graduate students in the public universities in Rivers State. It was concluded, that the impact of innovation strategies of e-learning and social networking on the academic performance of post graduate students have not been felt much. The paper recommended that: e-learning and social networking facilities should be adequately provided by the various stakeholders in the affair of public universities in Rivers State and utilized by most graduate students, for effective education service delivery and the training and retraining on the use of information and communication technology (ICT) facilities should be made mandatory at the primary level so to inculcate the e-technology habit in post graduate students.
 
85THE CURRENT GLOBAL ECONOMIC CRISIS: IMPLICATION FOR BEST UNIVERSITY GRADUATE TEACHER CAPACITY BUILDING IN NIGERIA
No full textThis article highlighted the core mission of university graduate capacity development for the integration of knowledge, values, skills and innovation needed for sustainable way of life in the new global economic challenges. It thus highlighted the role and importance of university education as central within the overall process of producing efficient adjustment in whatever level through these objectives: as an intellectual gold mine with vast human resources, universities have years of experience in training the leaders of tomorrow; have expertise in all fields of search, science and technology, in natural, human and social science oriented subjects for addressing the multidimensional issues that affect the nation
THE SOCIO-RELIGIOUS IMPLICATIONS OF ILE?? DI?DA? – COVENANT BREAKING IN THE CONTEMPORARY YORU?BA? SOCIETY
Get PDFÌmùlè? – covenant - is one of the tools, mechanisms and techniques used in the olden days in Yoru?ba?land to run various spheres of life in the society. These spheres of live include economy, politics religion. Through Ìmùlè?, friendship, brotherly love, trust, justice and confidence are entrenched. However, in the society today, it is rare to find those things mentioned above. Brotherly love has been replaced with hatred, spouses no longer trust themselves, justice is perverted, and people do not have confidence even in things spiritual. Promises are no longer kept as oath- taking has become mere window dressing. One no longer knows who is a friend or who is an enemy. The society is in disarray all because people no longer stick to Ìmùlè?. Failure or refusal to keep to any Ìmùlè? entered into is what the Yoru?ba? call “Ile?? di?da?.” – breaking of covenant. Ile?? di?da? is a sacrilegeous among the people. This paper addressed Ìmùlè? (making of covenant) and Ile?? di?da? (breaking of covenant) as understood by the Yoruba of southwestern Nigeria
SIMILAR LANGUAGE POLICIES, DIFFERENT MANAGEMENT STYLES, DIFFERENT RESULTS: NIGERIA AND PAPUA NEW GUINEA IN COMPARISON
Get PDFThe mother tongue based multilingual policy in education is stipulated in the Nigerian National Policy on Education. This is a natural fall-out from the ample evidence in research that early education given in children’s mother tongues provides more solid foundations for commendable academic success later in life than that given in borrowed languages. Literature is, however, replete with evidence of widespread non-compliance with the policy among Nigerians who demonstrate inordinate preference for the English language. The neglect of the policy stipulation has been found to be responsible for the ever-increasing rate of mass failure of Nigerian students. Papua New Guinea that records high rate of compliance with the same language policy in education experiences better academic achievement of students. The paper thus compares and contrasts language policy, management and practice issues in Nigeria with Papua New Guinea because of both countries’ multilingual nature. Both similarities and dissimilarities are found in the language policy management styles of both countries. Papua New Guinea, sometimes referred to as PNG, is found to manage the plurilingual situation much better than Nigeria. The Papua New Guinean government is found to have practised its language policy implementation in accordance with the principles of Language Management Theory from the field of Linguistics and Human Relations Theory from the field of Management. But Nigeria seemed to have been completely oblivious of such theories in its approach to language policy formulation and implementation, hence the great difference in success levels. The implications of the findings for Nigeria are also considered to point the way forward for the nation
TALENT ATTRACTION AND ACADEMIC QUALITY OF NIGERIAN UNIVERSITIES IN SOUTH-WESTERN, NIGERIA
Get PDFAcademic Quality (AQ) is to bring about totality of an improved teaching, research and service delivery in the Nigerian university system. AQ in Nigerian universities in the 60s/70s had declined compared to the current situation. Although, several factors have been attributed to this but these universities failed to look at the talented (First Class Graduates-FCGs) concerning their potential and performance. The study, therefore investigated the influence of Talent Attraction Factors (TAFs) on AQ in universities within the South-western, Nigeria. Descriptive survey design with mixed type was adopted. Data were collected from nine (three each of Federal, State and Private) universities which were randomly selected. All the 335 identified FCGs lectures were selected using purposive technique. The study revealed that job advancement, recognition for work and competitive salary/remuneration were TAFs. These TAFs must be put in place by the government and university authorities with adequate element of sustainability to enhance AQ in Nigerian universities
PERCEIVED DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS AS DETERMINANTS OF DRUG ABUSE AMONG ADOLESCENTS
Get PDFThe study investigated demographic factors as determinants of drug abuse among secondary school students in Ogun State, Nigeria. A descriptive survey research design of ex-post type was adopted. Participants for the study were five-hundred (500) adolescent students randomly drawn from JSS 1- SSS1 students in five (5) secondary schools located in Abeokuta North Local Government Area of Ogun State, Nigeria. Their ages ranged between 10-17 years with a mean of 16.4 years. A self constructed questionnaire tagged Demographic Drug Abuse Scale (ADDAS) (r = .076) was employed to collect data for the study. Two research hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance. Data were analysed using the Multiple Regression. The results revealed that age and gender were found to predict adolescent drug abuse, while education level does not. The paper concludes that school adolescents who become drug abusers are more likely to live in a social context that makes drug use easier. Recommendations were made for peer counselling and health education as part of the curriculum of secondary school education
EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES’ STATUS AS DETERMINANTS OF STUDENTS’ LEARNING OUTCOMES IN SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL GOVERNMENT IN OYO STATE, NIGERIA
Get PDFOver the years, issues of poor academic performance of students both in examinations have been of grave concern to all stakeholders in the education industry. This study investigated the relationship between all categories of educational resources (human, financial and material resources) and Senior Secondary School students’ learning outcomes in Government in Oyo State. The study is a survey research that adopted multi-stage sampling technique. Data were collected from 450 SSS II Government students and 30 teachers from 30 public and private schools in Oyo State. Four research questions and two validated instruments guided the study with reliability coefficient of 0.67 for SERI and 0.86 for GAT. Data were analysed using descriptive statistics, Pearson Product Moment Correlation and Multiple Regression. Results revealed that human resources were reportedly the most available 300 (66.7%), while financial resources were the least obtainable educational resources in the secondary school. The rates of utilisation revealed that 271 (60.2%) respondents admitted to using available resources most times. Results further indicated that there were moderate relationships between availability and adequacy of utilisation of the various educational resources and students' learning outcome (r = 0.64). The three predictor variables jointly accounted for 62% (Adjusted R2 = 0.621) observed variance in students’ learning outcome in Government as it was statistically significant. It is recommended that all stakeholders in the school system should ensure availability, usability and adequacy of all educational resources since they all predict students' learning outcomes and ensure that they are always utilised optimally in the teaching-learning processes
EVALUATION OF HOME TYPE, ABUSE PREVALENCE AND CARE-PERCEPTION ON PHYSICAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH AMONG ELDERLY PEOPLE IN SOUTH WEST, NIGERA
Get PDFMany countries may encounter a demographic change where the number of elderly people will increase. As a result, the number of very old people needing care, services and medical assistance will increase. Care in the private home is often described as providing the best alternative for many elderly people. The aim of this study was to evaluate elderly people’s home type, different form of abuse experienced, perceptions of how they are cared for and its effect on their physical and emotional health. The was a survey research adopting ex-post facto research design. Multistage sampling technique was used to sample Three hundred and sixty elderly people living in a private home that participated in this study. Three instruments: Elderly Persons Care-Perception Questionnaire (ECPQ), r=0.87, Elderly Abuse Prevalence Questionnaire (EAPQ) r = 0.88 and A structured Interview with inter-rater reliability of 0.93 was used to collect data. Descriptive statistics (mean and standard deviation) and Multiple Regression Analysis was used to determine possible effect among variables. The result revealed a positive and significant relationship between abuse prevalence, care-perception (? = 0.247, t (629) = 6.383, P < 0.05), Care-Perception (? = -.047, t = .55, and physical and emotional health. Furthermore, nearly a quarter or 25% reported significant levels of psychological abuse of neglect which affected their physical and emotional health. It is therefore recommended that strategies to monitor abuse among elderly people be put in place while arrangement is made for public home caregivers to reduce prevalence of abuse
EFFECTS OF GENDER AND YEARS OF WORKING EXPERIENCE ON PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHERS’ HEALTH ASSESSMENT BEHAVIOUR IN IBADAN SOUTH WEST LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA, OYO STATE
Get PDFThe average Nigerian children spend at least seven to nine hours a day and five days in a week in schools where they face significant health challenges resulting from daily activities and risk-taking behaviour which may adversely affect their health and ability to learn. Previous studies revealed poor personal hygiene practices among public primary school pupils. This study, examined the effects of gender and years of working experience on primary school teachers’ health assessment behaviour in Ibadan South West Local Government Area of Oyo State. The study adopted non-equivalent pre-test -post-test control quasi experimental design using 2x2x2 factorial matrix. One hundred and eighty teachers selected through multistage sampling procedure from sixty-five public primary schools in the study area were randomly assigned to experimental group and control group. A structured Teachers’ Health Assessment Behaviour Questionnaire (THABQ), and a self-structured Pupil Health Assessment form were used to collect information from the participants was adapted, a reliability coefficient of .76 was obtained using cronbach alpha. Study lasted for eight (8) weeks. Analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) was used to test the hypotheses at 0.05 alpha level. 107(59.4%) primary school teachers had no time for health assessment of their pupils. Findings showed that there was no significant main effect of gender on primary school teachers’ health assessment behaviour in Oyo State (F (2,177) = 3.360, p>.05, 2 ? =.019). There was a significant main effect of work experience on primary school teachers’ health assessment behaviour inOyo state (F(2,177) = 31.022, p<.05, 2 ? =.149). Interaction effects of work experience and gender was significant on Primary school teachers’ health assessment behaviour (F(1,175) = 17.227, p<.05, 2 ? =.003). It was recommended that there is need for regular advocacies for improvement and sustainable health assessment behaviour among primary school teachers in Ibadan South West Local Government Area