The purpose of this study was to examine the factors associated with high attrition rate among the UAE citizen teachers who teach in public schools grades 1-12. The factors that this study investigated are: personal factors, economic factors, teacher preparation, employment fact…
This study sought to identify the sources of job satisfaction and dissatisfaction of teachers in urban primary schools in Ethiopia, and to examine how personal and school characteristics mediate teachers' sentiments towards their profession. Participants were classroom teachers …
The primary trouble befalling Nigeria and its Niger Delta has been described as a failure of leadership. At various periods during the late 20th and early 21st centuries, Nigeria endured a bloody civil war and years of repressive military rule. Violence in the Niger Delta region…
The non inclusion of core law enforcement instructions to content curriculum, and the absence of research in transformational curriculum in the Nigerian police academies pose a threat to law enforcement in Nigeria. The specific purpose of this study was to determine whether a tr…
This study hypothesized that different historical records of equal rights and educational policy may account for negative attitudes toward people with disabilities. This hypothesis was tested by comparing the equal rights, beliefs, and attitudes toward excluded groups of two sam…
This study reports the crisis in Nigerian institutions of higher education between 1980 and 2002. Both primary and secondary data were collected from various sources to analyze the political climate and its effects on the Nigerian educational system. Data were gathered from alum…
Little research was found available in the literature concerning the numerous challenges that refugee children and adolescents face in exile. Since access to educational opportunities is perhaps one of the most fundamental of these challenges, it was considered one worthy of fur…
The purpose of this study is to investigate the possible existence of earning differentials between male and female teachers in Turkey. The main question is whether or not there is a wage gap between male and female teachers when human capital variables are held constant. In the…
The purpose of this study was to gain insight into the perceptions of Iranian nurse educators and students regarding the evaluation of teaching effectiveness in university based programs in Tehran (Iran). An exploratory descriptive design was used. The researcher designed a ques…
The purpose of this study was to identify the competencies for Turkish elementary principals. To accomplish this, the Delphi technique was used. Four panel groups were uses as sources of data. One consisted of elementary principals from Ankara. The second panel consisted of prof…
The Problem. The purpose of this research was to investigate to what extent the following factors motivate Iranian students to pursue higher education: Desire for enhancement of prestige, desire for enhancement of personal power, desire for improved economic status, desire for m…
The purpose of this study was to develop a model program of professional preparation for prospective secondary school principals, and continuing education for practicing principals to be offered in teacher training institutions in Iran. Historical and descriptive methods used to…
This descriptive and exploratory study examined the Turkish government's policy regarding access to study abroad, and Turkish student views regarding: (a) access patterns to universities and colleges in the U.S., (b) motivations for study abroad in general and U.S. schools, and …
This study was undertaken to: (1) identify the organizational climates of the Public Secondary Schools (Middle and High) in the city of Shiraz, Iran, and its related outlying areas; (2) investigate pupil control ideology of these schools' professional staffs; (3) discover possib…