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- This study explored the interconnectedness between distance to campus and the learning abilities of students cum their academic performances. Mixed Methods Design was adopted for the study. Self-designed questionnaires were administered to 934 randomly selected students, while semi-structured interviews were conducted for 8 conveniently selected lecturers from two rural universities in Nigeria and South Africa. The collected sets of quantitative and qualitative data were analysed using descriptive statistics and themes respectively. The finding of the study shows that rural based universities lack adequate campus-based accommodation facilities; the distance between where students live and campus is far, and that affects their learning abilities as well as academic performances. The study recommends that rural based universities should partner with property and transport agencies. While the former will seek to establish adequate accommodation facilities at affordable prices for students, the latter will provide good and flexible transport system which will serve students at minimal cost regardless of the situation of the community. Meanwhile, the university authority should ensure that the number of students enrolled annually is commensurate to the available facilities.
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- Adequate high-level skilled manpower is needed to drive and sustain economic, sociocultural and political development of any nation, to achieve this, quality university education is pivotal. Hence this study examined the relationship of career counseling,study habit pattern family socioeconomic status with academic performance of the University of Ibadan year one students. In Nigeria, the National UniversityCommission (NUC) an umbrella body of all universities both private and government owned introduced Post-Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (Post-UTME) to screen further candidates for university admission. Three hundred (300) students across fourteen faculties were recruited using a multistage sampling technique to respond to a structured measuring instrument, with the participants’ current CGPA. The results established that there was a positive and significant relationship of all the factors with academic performance of the participants; school counseling (r =.610, p<0.01) and study habits (r =.731, p<0.01). The study concludes that school counseling and study habits are important factors for improving academic performance of university students. Thus, the study recommends students’ personal study habits skills development, establishment of faculties/colleges counseling unit in addition to central university counseling center so as to cater for individual student peculiarity via their field of study.
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- This study explored teachers‘ and learners‘ views about factors that contribute to Physical Sciences underperformance in Grade 12 from a rural context. A mixed- methods research methodology was used where a concurrent triangulation research design was employed; where a structured questionnaire was used to solicit learners‘ views, while an interview schedule was used to delve into the teachers‘ views.Descriptive statistics revealed that learners viewed class-size, support, resources, and attitude towards Physical Science as factors that contribute to underperformance. Teachers indicated that it is difficult to give extra support without well-resourced laboratories and parental support. This paper contributes to the existing knowledge about the teaching of Sciences. It further recommends that measures be put in place to ensure that the recommendations of the National policy for the provision and management of Learning and Teaching Support Material are implemented in schools.
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