June 2010

The gender gap in vocational education: Increasing girls access in the 21st century in the Midwestern states of Nigeria

  There is an indication of inequality in educational chances for boys and girls. The girls are less favoured in enrolment ratio especially in the vocational subjects of agriculture, business education and engineering. The situation has been precipitated by social, cultural and economic factors. This paper examined the effects of cultural expectations and roles, sex-stereotyped occupations, classroom lessons,...

Author(s): A. C. Egun and E. U. Tibi

June 2010

A curriculum design and instructional development proposal for an intelligence studies program

  This article presents a prescriptive curriculum design for a new Bachelors of Arts program in Intelligence Studies. Commencing from an earlier qualitative and quantitative empirical study that conducted and analyzed an extensive assessment of the discipline subject content, this work offers detailed recommendations for curriculum, instruction, assessment, and program evaluation aspects of this Intelligence...

Author(s): David H. Gray