Social Sciences and Humanities

This paper was designed to understudy the contemporary issues affecting quality provisions in the Nigerian university context. It has been observed that qualities are declining gradually in the provision of university education in the country. However, studies that have looked into the problems the universities are faced with are yet to close the gap in knowledge of other factors that remain problematic within the sector especially problems created by the private universities. This study uses a standard literature review to study quality and the problems the universities are faced with.

The Korle Bu Teaching Hospital has featured consistently in the news for various forms of financial malpractices in recent times and this could be emanating from weaknesses in the institution’s internal financial control system. To this end, the present study sought to evaluate the existing internal financial control systems of the hospital to assess the extent of their effectiveness and efficiency.

Satisfaction is a kind of steeping away from an experience and evaluating it. One could have a pleasurable experience that caused dissatisfaction because even though pleasurable, it was not pleasurable, it was supposed or expected to be so satisfaction / dissatisfaction is not an emotion.

Objective: Disc herniationaffects the life of person in all parts of life, physically, mentally and socially. From performing activities of daily living, movement is limited, patients are often dependent on the help of others, the thinking and behavior of the patient are changing. The overall assessment of the perception of quality of life is change at least one year after surgeryof intervertebral discs. Design:to ascertain the perception of quality in the daily activities of life after the surgery of discherniation in area of the bio - psycho - social needs.

Agricultural growth and productivity remains central to poverty reduction, particularly in the developing countries, where a large share of the population relies on agriculture and agribusiness for their livelihood. Generally speaking, there is a greater form of limited access to credit by a greater chunk of Ghanaian farmers. The question that can attract multi-billion answers is whether the risks associated with giving loans to farmers in sub-Sahara Africa of which Ghana is no exception are overtly immeasurable. The study made use of cross-sectional source of data.

Agricultural growth has remained one of the greatest issues of concern to the economies of sub-Sahara Africa. It is seen as one of the basic areas which if properly managed would alleviate the severity of poverty that most countries in Africa are saddled with. The study was purely quantitative in nature. The study made use of cross-sectional source of data. The research work randomly selected 100 beneficiary farmers of the MiDA facility and 100 non beneficiary farmers from the Ejura Municipality, specifically from the major farming territory zones of the area.

Waste is items we don’t need and discard. Where does it end up and how to minimize its consequences on human and environment, have been major environmental issues, since the industrial revolution. Now waste worries everyone everywhere, since it grows steadily along with population and economic growth. Big issues are discussed locally and globally in both developed and developing countries in different levels.

The usefulness of this study is to investigate the entrepreneurial orientation developed in order to encourage performance improvement Small and Medium Enterprises . Even the successful implementation kewirausaahaan orientation on Small and Medium Enterprises to encourage applications to the corporate giants. This view is essentially that development of small and medium businesses is more focused on the formation and orientation of the entrepreneurial spirit rather than simply funding assistance and technical skills as long as this government implemented.

Effective method of teaching is a key to students’ high academic performances. However, many teachers are yet to realize this fact. This paper therefore, seeks to investigate impact of learner-centered method of teaching on students academic performances for national development in secondary schools in Abakaliki Municipality. A-10 item instrument tagged ‘Learner-Centered Method Questionnaire’ (LCMQ) was used to collect data for the study. Simple Random Sample Technique was used to select 80 teachers drawn from 10 public and private secondary schools in the study area.

This paper attempts to investigate primary and secondary school teachers’ perception on the contributions of psychology to education. Descriptive survey design was used and one hundred and twenty (120) public school teachers in Abakaliki LGA of Ebonyi State were selected for the study. A 20-item structured questionnaire was used to elicit information. Simple percentage was used in the analysis. The findings of the study include as follows: that perception of primary and secondary school teachers on the contributions of psychology to education is positive.