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.
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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.
E-learning as a medium for teaching and learning is one of the major cost drivers in open and distance learning. The type and quality of e-learning available in an institution depends on how much the institution actually has to expend on it, especially in an open and distance education where the learner is separated from the teacher. This study therefore, examined the total and unit cost of e-learning in three Nigerian universities providing distance programmes through a descriptive survey employing the ex-post facto design.
Retrieving information in the World Wide Web, the world’s largest collection of documents is a challenging and important task. The scale of the WWW is immense, consisting of at least twenty billion publicly visible web pages distributed on millions of servers world-wide. There is no enforcement on adherence to formal protocols to publish in the web. Authors publish in a wide variety of formats, which includes deliberately misleading search platforms and hence increasing the chance of retrieving irrelevant web pages and this action has led to the degradation of search results.
The issue of sustainable educational development in the case of Nigeria borders much on many factors which to a proportionate extent influence or mar students learning in diverse subject discipline. This study therefore examined the effects of social – economic status, academic ability and motivation on students’ academic performance in basic technology along with the challenges for stakeholders and classroom instruction, all for sustainable education and national development.