This paper examines the changing trends in Nigerian education, from the liberal arts and the use of General Purpose English in the past to the emphasis on science and technical education, considered as the bedrock of a nation’s development through technology. It discusses the inadequacy of the General Purpose English approach in teaching English to vocational and technical students. It considers the fact that the English needs of vocational and technical students are different from others, especially in the liberal arts and humanities.
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Environmental influence is a strong determinant of students' performance in school Mathematics being a subject that dread so many students, is supposed to be learnt in a conducive environment where everything needed for its effective teaching is adequately provided for to ensure its effective impartation. In Nigeria, environment has been a major problem to the achievement of the goals and objectives of education. In this paper, the various environmental factors that can greatly influence students' performance in mathematics were considered.
Kidnapping is a national threat and capable of disintegrating the country if not properly checked. Kidnapping simply means to seize and detain unlawfully, by force or fraud and to remove persons to an undisclosed location against their will and usually for use as a hostage or to extract ransom. It is sad that this unwholesome act has made many entrepreneurs to relocate their businesses to other parts of the country where kidnapping is less vulnerable while others have relocated to neighbouring countries where their return on investment will be highly secured.
The purpose of this study was to investigate the Influence of Television on Academic Performance of Senior Secondary School Students in Zaria Educational Zone, Kaduna State. Descriptive research design using survey method was adopted. The population for the study was drawn from six (6) senior secondary schools in Zaria, Sabon Gari and Giwa Local Government Area in Zaria Educational Zone, Kaduna State, Nigeria. Three hundred and fifty (350) senior secondary school students were randomly selected using proportional sampling technique.
The research work was carried out to ascertain the causes of gender disparity in technical-vocational skills acquisition programme. Two research questions were raised to guide the study, while a survey design method was used for the study. A total population of 185 respondents was used for the study. A 20-item questionnaire was used to elicit information from the respondents. The findings showed that the unconscious influence of the society and parental/guardian opinion cause gender disparity in the acquisition of technical-vocational skills.
Child bride is an age long problem that education and other agent of socialization has wiped off in most parts of the world, but unfortunately it has persisted in Nnewi communities of Anambra State. Factors responsible for it’s perpetuation there becomes of great concern. The researcher employed survey research method and a sample of fifty (50) women were selected using multistage sampling technique from Nnewi main town. A questionnaire was used in data collection and data collected were subjected to simple frequency counts and percentage.
Entrepreneurship was introduced into the Nigerian school curriculum as a means of solving unemployment problem facing young school graduates and to inculcate enterprise culture on the citizenry to realize the vision and objectives of a private sector driven economy for economic global transcending. These young school graduates seem not be able to effectively match entrepreneurial skills acquired with industrial expectations (business management).
This paper attempts an ethical explanation to the phenomenon of examination malpractice. It relates the moral situation in Nigerian society to the “Hobbesian State of Nature”. The paper argues that attributes of “State of Nature” can be found in almost all facets of our national life be it political, economical or educational. The paper therefore states that the root of examination malpractice is in the moral decadence of the society hence measures taken so far to curb the menace have proved abortive.
This paper discuss some issues and challenges of entrepreneurship education in tertiary institutions in Nigeria. This is based on the provisions of the National Policy on Education (2004) which lays emphasis on the need for beneficiaries of vocational and technical education to be entrepreneurs so as to achieve selfemployment after graduation and also to eliminate poverty, hunger and disease and the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals (MDG) which are to be realized before 2015. It highlight areas, in entrepreneurship concept.
The process of teaching the hearing-impaired is a complex mental task in which the knowledge of the professional sign language tutor is combined with the previous knowledge acquired through experience, as a result of associating with the hearing-impaired. The learning difficulties and communication constraints which created a wide gap between the hearing-impaired and their counter parts (hearing people) has been a source of concern over the years.