ABSTRACT The research was conducted to find answers to questions concerning the incidence of sexual harassment among Senior High School female students in the Effutu Municipality by examining student‟s knowledge on the forms, causes and impacts of sexual harassment among students. The objectives of the study were to examine students‟ level of knowledge about sexual harassment in schools, to assess students‟ perception about sexual harassment in educational settings and to assess the f...
ABSTRACT The purpose of the study was to find out the challenges of supervision in public junior high schools in the Techiman West and South Circuit of the Techiman Municipality. The objectives of the study were to find out the challenges supervisors face in the discharge of supervisory duties. Descriptive survey design was used for the study. The study involved head teachers of the public junior high schools in the Techiman West and South Circuit. Purposive sampling was employed to select 8...
ABSTRACT This study discusses Riddling (Salinlɔha) among the Dagbamba in the Northern Region of Ghana. The study shows that the Dagbamba riddle has the antecedent and a response and an opening formula as the basic structure. It is also shown that there may be a semantic fit or mismatch with the relationship between the antecedent and the response. There are three types of Dagbamba riddles; these include the simple riddle, the tone riddle and the song riddle. The song riddle is peculiar beca...
ABSTRACT This study examine the factors affecting girl child education in Dabaa Community in the Atwima Nwabiagya District. The objective of the study was to establish the socioeconomic factors, socio-cultural factors and school -based factors that affects girl child education in the Darbaa Community. Descriptive survey design using mixed method approach was adopted for the study. Purposive sampling technique was used to select seventy (70) participants comprising of 62 students, 4 teachers ...
ABSTRACT The objective of the study was to identify the impact of phonological awareness on the reading and spelling abilities of Form 1 students of St. Francis Junior High School. It was also meant to find out factors that inhibit the teaching and learning of phonological awareness in the school. Lastly, the study was to identify phonological awareness strategies that would help pupils improve upon their reading and spelling competences. Qualitative research design was used to carry out th...
ABSTRAC The Non-Formal Education Division was established under the Ministry of Education, Ghana in 1991 and mandated to eradicate illiteracy in Ghana by the year 2015. Unlike formal education institutions which have standardized processes, procedures and certification systems that enable and facilitate monitoring and evaluation of programmes, non-formal education systems, by virtue of their peculiar characteristics, are relatively difficult to monitor and evaluate. This study sought to asse...
ABSTRACT This research investigates the causes of transliteration errors among the pupils/students from Basic Four to Seven in the Pokuase Community of the Greater Accra Region of Ghana. It unravels why the Twi language has such a strong influence on the English language usage among the basic school children even in a cosmopolitan community. The research employed a mixed method approach which was executed through the use of questionnaire, interview, essay writing and picture description to ar...
ABSTRACT The topic for this study is the teaching of rhymes and songs at the Kindergarten and the primary objective of this study is to identify problems associated with the teaching of rhymes and songs at the Kindergarten, and how can these rhymes and songs be taught effectively. This study was conducted at Agorteman Municipal Assembly Basic School in Kwashiekuma Circuit in Ga West Municipality in Greater Accra Region of Ghana. Purposive sampling method was used to select six teachers for ...
ABSTRACT Many firms experience fundamental organizational restructuring which can affect the welfare of employees. In spite of the number of studies endorsing the negative influence of organizational restructuring on employee’s well-being, little is known in Ghana. Using Denmark embassy as a case, the study explored how organizational restructuring induces job stress. This study specifically examines factors that induce stress at Denmark embassy in Ghana. Using a logit model, the study foun...
ABSTRACT This study investigated the fricatives of Asante, Bono and Denkyira with the aim of establishing the acoustic properties of the fricatives. Three fricatives [f], [s] and [ç] of Asante, Bono and Denkyira were examined in [a, ɛ, ɪ] vowel contexts. Fifteen (15) male and fifteen (15) female speakers between the ages of 20-35 years were recruited for the study. All the fricative consonants were within the scope of prevocalic and intervocalic using CV and CVC syllables respectively. T...
ABSTRACT The study examined customer perception of service delivery by the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) in the Cape Coast District in the Central Region of Ghana. The descriptive design was adopted for the study and convenience sampling technique was used to sample 120 respondents for the study. Self-administered questionnaire was used for data collection. The descriptive statistics was used to analyze the data including means, standard deviations, frequencies and percentages. Bivariate...
ABSTRACT The study was aimed at finding out the perceptions about community participation in project initiation, project planning and designing and project implementation, monitoring and evaluation. It also seeks to find out the socioeconomic impact or effects of world vision’s poverty reduction interventions in the Assin North District of Ghana. The study was conducted in four major local communities within the Assin North Districts namely: Assin Endwa, Assin Akropong, Assin Wurakesi and A...
ABSTRACT The emergence of new contaminants, owing to the persistently high levels of water pollution, has rendered most conventional water purification techniques inadequate and/or relatively costly. In this study, a simple, effective and affordable prototype membrane filter was fabricated, with the use of Comsol Multiphysics simulations. These simulations were used in the real-time prediction of the water-retention and lifetime of the fabricated membrane. The river and hand-dug well water sa...
ABSTRACT The study assessed organisational performance in Ghanaian public sector especially ISD with specific reference to Cape Coast.The study used descriptive survey as its design and used the census method to select all 18 staffs for regional and metropolitan offices in Cape Coast as the sample size for the study. The researcher employed a self-administered questionnaire to collect data for the study which helped to produce 100% retrieval rate. The questionnairewasmade up of 22 items. The ...
ABSTRACT The financial systems of the 21st Century have been growing with speed, sophistication and becoming more complex world over. Per this, the economic and social environment in which people take financial decisions has also changed drastically. This has increased individual employees’ responsibility in managing their own finances and securing their financial freedom. The study examined the relationship between financial literacy and retirement planning of employees in Ghana Immigratio...