In order to establish the Socio-Economic impact of Child Labour in the County of Cornwall‚ a snapshot survey was taken of children and parents of children engaged in the practice. The survey was conducted across all five parishes in the county. The child sample population consisted of 50‚ both boys and girls while the sample for parents were 25. The population was distributed evenly across the parishes of St. James‚ St Elizabeth‚ Westmoreland‚ Trelawny‚ and Hanover. Refer to Figure 1 Of the
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Race and socio-economic status should not define citizenship. Every individual has the right to exercise citizenship regardless his/her race‚ ethnicity‚ wealth‚ education‚ or social standing. Many have argued for the cause‚ yet to date‚ the reality seems bleak. In this essay‚ I will discuss on the tensions caused by race and socio-economic status and its relation to citizenship. To do this‚ I will provide a case-study‚ based on my observation of Jakarta‚ the capital city of Indonesia. Jakarta is
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factor in which is the social and economic experiences that help mold one’s personality‚ attitudes‚ and lifestyle. It can also define regions and neighborhoods. Socioeconomic factors also include the ethnicity‚ and sense of community. Socioeconomic status is based on family income‚ parental educational level‚ parental occupation‚ and social status in the community. Families with low socioeconomic status often have less success in preparing their young children for school because they typically don’t have
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Correlates of Academic Procrastination and Mathematics Achievement of University Undergraduate Students Mojeed Kolawole Akinsola University of Botswana‚ Gaborone‚ BOTSWANA Adedeji Tella Osun State College of Education; Ila-Orangun‚ NIGERIA Adeyinka Tella University of Botswana‚ Gaborone‚ BOTSWANA Received 3 November 2006; accepted 19 April 2007 Procrastination is now a common phenomenon among students particularly those at the higher level. And this is doing more harm to their academic achievement
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EFFECTS OF OVERPOPULATION ON THE ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF STUDENTS IN GOVERNMENT SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN OWERRI MUNICIPAL COUNCIL OF IMO STATE A RESEARCH PROJECT (ED 451) SUBMITTED TO THE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION‚ ALVAN IKOKU FEDERAL COLLEGE OF EDUCATION‚ OWERRI. IN AFFILIATION WITH UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA NSUKKA (UNN) IN PARTIAL FULFILMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR AWARD OF BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN EDUCATION ACCOUNTANCY (B.SC.ED) BY OSUJI MACGOWIN C. BD/06/28011 MARCH
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Choose one of the following socio-demographic characteristics: age‚ sex‚ ethnicity‚ or socio-economic status (SES). Describe its relationship to crime‚ paying attention to whether that relationship is observable at the individual and/ or the aggregate-level. What are the major theoretical explanations for that relationship? To what extent are the results of prior empirical research consistent with those theoretical explanations? Women have traditionally been perceived as “the nurturer’s” in
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1. Background Academic performance is the priority to students as well as the teachers in any school system. Some of the socio-cultural factors which affect the students achievement are parents’ educational status (M. Khata‚et al. 2011). Parent educational status is used as an indicator of Socio Economic Status (SES) to reflect the potential for social and economic resources such as household incomes that are available to students because it tends to remain the same over time ( Sirin 2005). Moreover
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Statistics shows that two of every ten college students today is a single parent‚ whether male or female. And the number of single parents in college is on a steady rise. This shouldn’t really be surprising since single-parent households have been on a sharp and steady increase for several decades. Today‚ there are more single parents enrolled in college than ever before. Single parents face difficult challenges‚ and single parents who are also college students have additional stresses and demands to
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A CASE STUDY OF SCHOOL - RELATED FACTORS AFFECTING NIGERIAN SECONDARY SCHOOL PUPILS’ ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE By Dr. Olaniyi Bojuwoye ABSTRACT A ten-item questionnaire containing various descriptions of school-related characteristic which have been found to adversely affect pupils academic performance was administered on 809 teachers and 1012 students of secondary schools from ten randomly selected states in Nigeria. The respondents ranked the characteristics in terms of their degree of effect
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students are taking. Students react to college in a variety of ways. For some students‚ college is stressful because it is an abrupt change from high school. For freshers at the university‚ the sudden amount of free time; class that only meet one or two times a week for two hours or so; leads to the development of habits that can impair academic performance and increase stress levels. For others‚ separation from home is a source of stress because for many students this is the first time they are living
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