Abstract The research focused on legislative oversight and economic governance in Namibia by evaluating the role of Parliament in the budget process, namely consultations, formulation, debate and approval, implementation and auditing and assessment. The research therefore examined the work of Parliament and its Standing Committees in the budget process and established the problems that were being encountered in particular since 1995 when Parliament adopted a report on the report on the Agenda...
ABSTRACT The possibility of a school’s culture influencing school performance has triggered wide spread research in recent years, with the introduction of organisational culture as a field of management studying the 1970s. This topic gained the wide interest of scholars’ attention by 1980. Building from sociological and anthropological perspectives, scholars have argued that organisations could possess a culture-which is the taken-for-granted assumptions and behaviour that makes sense of ...
ABSTRACT The study sought to establish the challenges that are faced by full time teaching heads in primary schools in Shurugwi district with a view to suggest strategies that can be used to solve these challenges. Literature review indicated that heads are faced with challenges that include dual roles and time management. It also suggested that these can be solved through delegation of duties and having non teaching heads in all schools. The research was qualitative in nature so it adopted a...
ABSTRACT This study focused on marine fisheries data collection, management and utilization which diminished the ability of fisheries to be effectively managed and leading to under-reporting. The Delphi methodology was selected as the most appropriate means to achieve the goals and objectives of this study because it provided a way to solicit and gain consensus by experts on Namibian fisheries data collection and management. The major findings were mostly the low interest of stakeholders in t...
ABSTRACT This study sought to analyze inclusive education in Harare Northern Central District: Policy versus Implementation. The main research question sought the knowledge gaps between inclusive education policies and their implementation. Sub-questions drawn from the main question were asked to solicit data from school heads. Phenomenological research design was employed while a Purposive Criterion Sampling was used to come up with three school heads and nine teachers. An interview guide an...
ABSTRACT This study explores ways of enhancing performance management processes at the Directorate of Customs and Excise (DCE) within the Ministry of Finance (MoF) of the government of the Republic of Namibia. It investigates critical factors that accelerate employee performance and exposes some of the challenges that hinder the effective implementation of performance management processes in DCE. It is important to explore performance measurements and strategies that could be employed by DCE ...
ABSTRACT This study focusses on the current retention rate of girls in rural secondary schools that were part of the piloted schools in the then Kavango Educational Region but now fall in the Kavango West Educational Region after the split of Kavango into two regions (East and West) by the forth Delimitation Commission in 2013. The aim of the study is to identify what the current retention rate of the girls is, the type of barriers they are faced with and how to overcome them. The key researc...
Abstract The purpose of this study was to evaluate the implementation of the policy on “Discipline from Within” in selected secondary schools in the Oshana region of Namibia. A qualitative comparative case study was used to compare how the “Discipline from Within” policy was implemented in two best disciplined secondary schools and two poorly disciplined secondary schools in Oshana region. The population comprised of all secondary schools in the Oshana region. A purposeful sampling s...
ABSTRACT Research shows that learner academic achievement depends on school leadership. However, evidence has shown that identifying the effects of principals on learner academic achievement is challenging. Consequently, the present study investigated the role of principals’ leadership style on learner academic achievement. To achieve this aim two case studies of high and low performing combined schools in Zambezi region were selected interviewing two principals and seven teachers using an...
ABSTRACT The study sought to investigate views of respondents on how the school cluster system serves as a teachers‟ support service with the ultimate goal to improve learners‟ academic performance and teachers‟ professional development. The study used a qualitative approach and adopted a case study research design. The study involved three Cluster Centre Principals (CCPs), two Satellite School Principals (SSPs) and five teachers from secondary schools. Data were mainly collected throu...
ABSTRACT NAMCOL makes use of formal education teachers who are appointed by the College as part-time tutors. Tutors are appointed on a seven-month contract starting from March up to September of each year. They are allocated one to two class groups depending on the number of learners enrolled per subject and are remunerated on an hourly basis. Many tutors therefore, prefer to teach more than one class group and decline to be appointed for one group only because the more class groups they teac...
Abstract The purpose of this study was to investigate the challenges faced by school board members in executing their roles in the rural primary schools of the Omusati Region. The Namibian Education Act, promulgated in 2001, was committed in ensuring democracy through active involvement of all stakeholders (principals, teachers, parents, other stakeholders and learners in secondary schools) in the decision-making processes in schools through school board members. However, the evolution of sc...
ABSTRACT The Computerized School Selection and Placement System introduced in Ghana is yet to fully realize its usefulness as there are still elements of influence in the placement system far from the raw scores. The increasing level of inefficiencies therefore requires an investigation into stakeholders‟ perception on the CSSPS and its ability to resolve the challenges of the manual placement system. The study adopted a mixed research design involving the administration of questionnaires t...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to examine the parental attitude towards female-child education in the Kintampo North Municipality. Respondents were two hundred and forty (240). This consists of thirty (30) teachers, one hundred students 190 students and twenty (20) parents. Two methods of data analysis were adopted, first, descriptive statistics involving the use of frequency, percentages and pie chart were used to present the data use to present data collected. The frequency was then...
ABSTRACT This study primarily aimed to investigate management practices that are used to manage teachers, students, material resources and stakeholders’ in the underperforming junior high schools and to examine the management practices that affect teaching and learning activities. The study also aimed at recommending strategies for improving management practices in the underperforming junior high schools in the Atwima Nwabiagya district. The research consisted of a mixed method approach and...