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Wuttor, Akorfa – ProQuest LLC, 2022
With Ghana's domestic economy revolving around service and agriculture, business education has over the years remained the second-largest demand among young adults. Despite the education policy reforms since the pre-colonial era to date, many university graduates in Ghana complete school with uneven quality. Consequently, low-performing students…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Class Size, Crowding, Teacher Student Ratio
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Moran, Peter William – History of Education Quarterly, 2019
This article examines the impact of African American migration into Kansas City, Missouri, on the city's segregated school system in the 1940s and early 1950s. Substantial increases in the number of African American elementary school-age children produced chronic overcrowding in the segregated black schools, which was not easily relieved due to…
Descriptors: African American Students, Neighborhoods, School Districts, Race
Silvia Robles; Max Gross; Robert W. Fairlie – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2020
One frequently cited yet understudied channel through which money matters for college students is course availability--colleges may respond to budgetary pressure by reducing course offerings. Open admissions policies, binding class size constraints, and heavy reliance on state funding may make this channel especially salient at community colleges,…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Community Colleges, Open Enrollment, Course Selection (Students)
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Hellmann, Jens H.; Jucks, Regina – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2017
In higher education, just amounts of tuition fees are often a topic of heated debate among different groups such as students, university teachers, administrative staff, and policymakers. We investigated whether unpleasant situations that students often experience at university due to social crowding can affect students' views on the justified…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Fees, Higher Education, Foreign Countries
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Maemeko, Eugene; Mukwambo, Muzwa; Nkengbeza, David – Journal of Curriculum and Teaching, 2021
The purpose of this article was to find out social challenges learners residing in informal settlements in Katima Mulilo Town face. Informal settlements crop up as people move from rural settings to urban areas as they seek better facilities, a process known as urbanisation. However, not all who migrate into urban areas end up getting the required…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Barriers, Social Influences, Migrants
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Wang, Yi-Ping – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education, 2016
Tourism development could drive the enhancement of national income and the demands for international tourism that tourism benefits have become the key source of national revenue. The integration of cultural relics with tourism development to drive the national or regional development has currently become the world trend. Making good use of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Tourism, Cultural Background, Questionnaires
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Haidari, Sayed Masood; Karakus, Fazilet; Koçoglu, Ayhan – Journal of Theoretical Educational Science, 2020
This study explored the views of the lower secondary gifted students in relation to the learning climate established in their regular schools and the gifted education centers, with a focus on their psychological safety, in the Turkish context. It also investigated what these students and their teachers expect from a potentially safe and desirable…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Student Attitudes, Academically Gifted, Gifted Education
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Karasavidou, Efstratia; Alexopoulos, Nikolaos – European Journal of Educational Management, 2019
Despite the fact that crisis management is essential for school's smooth operation and crises occur at schools and education institutions around the world, Greek school is characterized by limited readiness to manage its potential crises. This study investigates the attitudes and perceptions of teachers concerning crisis events in school units…
Descriptors: Crisis Management, Emergency Programs, School Safety, Safety Equipment
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Ngwira, Happy; Potokri, Onoriode Collins – Problems of Education in the 21st Century, 2019
The quest of beginner teachers becoming experienced teachers remains a major issue within the educational terrain. Induction experience(s) of beginner teachers particularly women in selected community secondary schools in South Africa was the focus of this research. In this research, the problems that women beginner teachers face at some selected…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Beginning Teacher Induction, Women Faculty, Community Schools
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Chanimbe, Timothy; Dankwah, Kwaku Opoku – Interchange: A Quarterly Review of Education, 2021
Free secondary education remains limited in the developing world, where some 80% of 264 million children currently unable to access secondary education across 65 countries associated with the Global Partnership for Education are based. Despite a 2015 commitment by UN member countries to provide free secondary education by 2030, most countries with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Schools, High Schools, Educational Policy
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Luvanga, Baraka Gaitan; Mkimbili, Selina Thomas – African Journal of Research in Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2020
This paper presents the findings of a study that explored the link between teachers' views on the challenges to inquiry-based science teaching (IBST) practice in the chemistry classroom and their need for professional development. The study used a multiple case study design and collected data using interviews. Participants were purposively…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Inquiry, Science Instruction, Chemistry
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Niazi, Muti-ur-Rehmaan Khan; Asghar, Muhammad Aslam; Ali, Riasat – Pakistan Journal of Distance and Online Learning, 2018
The purpose of the study was to find out the effects of existing physical environment of chemistry lab on cognitive learning of chemistry students in the rural and urban schools of Rawalpindi Division at secondary school level. The population of the study consisted of all science teachers and science students of all male and female schools in…
Descriptors: Science Laboratories, Cognitive Development, Physical Environment, Environmental Influences
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Babatunde, Ehinola Gabriel – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
Primary school Enrolment Trend, Class-Ratio and Head Teachers overcrowded classrooms management strategies in Northern Senatorial District of Ondo State, Nigeria was investigated. The purpose of the study is to examine the current enrolment trend in public primary schools in northern senatorial District of Ondo State. Also, is to ascertain the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary Schools, Enrollment Trends, Teacher Student Ratio
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Gurantz, Oded – Journal of Higher Education, 2015
In California, the combination of budget cuts and high unemployment from the Great Recession has resulted in "overcrowded" conditions, with more students attempting to enroll in fewer available classes. State-level policy recommendations have focused on altering registration priorities to mitigate the impact of overcrowding, but it is…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, School Registration, Enrollment, Economic Climate
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Baghoussi, Meriem; El Ouchdi, Ilhem Zoubida – Arab World English Journal, 2019
To help learners acquire and develop the necessary skills for the 21st century, Algeria has adopted the Competency-Based Approach (CBA) along with the Project-based Learning (PBL) approach within its educational system. Theoretically speaking, the goal behind such reform is to shift from a content-based to a process-based learning/teaching and…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Student Projects, Competency Based Education, Student Centered Learning
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