It is the duty of government to make and implement policies that will see to the betterment of its people. It is their duty to create order and an enabling environment for the flourishing of its people and cater to the future of the said people. In time, the government and society at large would be delineated into bits of structures which ideally should work together for common goal. However, as society grows and the complexities of governance and particularly policy making widens, certain po... read more

The study of home economics has been of increase in the recent times, many students and even youths have been able to build career from studying this course, the impact of home economics studies will be highlighted in this study.

It is difficult and maybe even impossible to imagine future learning environments that are not supported, in one way or another, by Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). When looking at the current widespread diffusion and use of ICT in modern societies, especially by the young – the so-called digital generation – then it should be clear that ICT will affect the complete learning process today and in the future. Virtually everywhere across the globe; the African Union (AU), Europ... read more

The use of information technology has brought great improvement to the life of mankind in all human endeavorus, most especially in education. Computers and other aspects of information technology are now used in education to monitor students’ achievements, teach students and also as instructional media to assist in teaching in the classroom, especially in home economics (Adeyonju, 2004). Teaching process is considered paramount, especially when we consider teaching and learning as the acquisit... read more

The word 'instruction' is the act of teaching or passing information unto others while 'media' is any material or equipment that conveys information from a source to a receiver or vice-versa. However, the concept of instructional media, because of its numerous definitions, has been defined in different ways by several authorities and authors. Each author describes the concept from his or her own perception of it. In the past, instructional media was called teaching aids, but because of the im... read more

Education, according to Coombs (2000) consists of two components. He classified these two components. He classified these two components into inputs and outputs. According to him, inputs consist of human and materials resources and outputs are the goals and outcomes of the educational process. Both the inputs and outputs form a dynamic organic whole and if one wants to investigate and assess the educational system in order to improve its performance, effects of one component on the ... read more

Academic libraries collect material to support the teaching and research objectives of their parent bodies. The library serves both the teaching and non teaching staff of the polytechnic, researchers from other academic institutions, and students. Experience has shown that the majority of users of academic libraries are students. The library collection is organized to give easy access to material. According to Maloney (2004) the role of the library is to organize information resources and servi... read more

Mother tongue as the first language of instruction in schools is an essential tool in whatever field we may find ourselves, without it any meaningful form of intellectual pursuit will be hindered. As we all know that most children who begin their education in their mother tongues make a better start as they demonstrate increased self confidence, and continue to perform better than those who start school in a new language (English). (Cummins,2000) The outlook of the education is brighter when ... read more

Education is the best legacy a nation can give to her citizens especially the youth. This is because; the development of any nation or community depends on the youth. Education is aimed at developing the well-integrated person so as to enable him to get adjusted in the society. Hence, the aim of education may be put as bringing out board personality changes in the individual which include attitudes, interest, ideas, ways of thinking, work habits, personal and social adaptability etc. besides imp... read more

Science is a great enterprise which nations depend on, in-order to advance technologically. Science therefore is receiving much emphasis in education because of its significance and relevance to life and society. Biology is the science in which we study living things. You can learn about an organism by reading about it. You can also learn about the organism by picking it up and studying it. The former is a theoretical approach, while the later is the practical approach. It must be borne in... read more

The Chambers Universal Learners Dictionary define a library as a building or room containing a collection of books or some other collection, for example, gramophone records. Shair (1963) also defines a library as an organization of one or more trained people who use carefully selected or organized books, periodicals and other similar materials as a means of giving to those who may appropriately use it to the fullest extent of their need or desires the information, enrichment or delight which ... read more

student achievement is the way they perform during their academic session, many schools has underestimated the effectiveness of teacher's performance on the academic achievements of their students, According to Nwilo (2005), students performance is directly proportional to the performance of their teachers.

In recent times, education stakeholders have expressed their concerned over the poor performance of students in the school certificate examination. Some blamed the school administrators (principals) and the teachers while some blamed the students themselves and the parents. Whoever to be blamed, the fact remains that, the school and its organizational management has correlation with the academic achievement of the students. Leith (2004). The school principal who is the manager has a lot of roles... read more

The advent of globalization characterized by widening consumer choice has intensified competition in both local and international markets. Consumers were now exposed to a wider range of generic products which enabled them to choose products of high quality at low prices. One of the strategies that could give organizations a competitive advantage could be the offering of quality products and services to consumers at competitive prices. The success of Japanese organizations in the late 20th centur... read more

The important of community of Inquiry philosophy for children (COIP4C) system of education is the strategic life planning and management that set the components of a system into action to produce an output beneficial to all parts, mutually and cumulatively. The values focus on the vision that will direct our actions for the betterment of education in the society. Therefore good environmental scanning and improvement will ensure the realization of the education of our dream-education buttressed ... read more

Critical Thinking leads to precision and relevance, it is way of thinking positively not negatively, also method of thinking about thinking which is the key to think critically, when one control his/her conscience thought processes without conscience thought process one control with other people ideas. Critical thinking founding views in mind or planning in our mind by ourselves without letting public to know about it (Marzano, Robert) et al.

Prior to the establishment of institute of management and technology Enugu, there existed till 1967 a college of technology up to the ordinary diploma level. An institution of administration which provide short in services training courses for civil servants of various grades and a cooperative college which offered a certificate course in cooperative studies to co-operative aspects from the ministry of industry, trade and cooperative. These institutions were separated and separately located.... read more

After 1990, the Slovak Republic saw an emergence of a negative attitude towards technical education at primary schools. However, since the beginning of the 21st century the Government has been aware of the unfavourable development of technical education in Slovakia, and according to its autumn 2012 policy statement, it considered “education, science, research and innovation, information and digitization to be essential pillars of the knowledge-based society and economy”.

A child is the source of rejuvenation of man and his community (Kalu, 1982). In (1959) the United Nation general assembly unanimously passed the declaration on the rights of the child which stated that mankind owns the child the best, it has to give and that every child is entitled to protection in the early years (adequate health care, food and social service and prepare for later years without respect to social status, sex, race and so on). United Nation convention and Africa charter (1987)... read more

Research provides inconsistent findings regarding the importance of parent-child communication and other forms of parental involvement activities to children’s school success (Domina, 2005; Englund, Luckner, Whaley, & Egeland, 2004; Fan & Chen, 2001; Hoover-Dempsey et al., 2001; Mattingly, Prislin, McKenzie, Rodriguez, & Kayzar, 2002). Some studies report positive associations with aca- demic achievement (Callahan, Rademacher, & Hildreth, 1998; Fan, 2001; Hong & Ho, 2005; Houtenville & Conway,... read more