Browsing by Author "Rwabuhihi, Emmanuel Festus"
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- ItemAn inquiry into the role played by Ngo's in the improvement of the wellbeing of orphans and vulnerable children a case study of UWESO Masulit a children's village (mcv) Wakiso district(Kampala International University, College of Education Open and Distance Learning, 2007-11) Rwabuhihi, Emmanuel FestusThe Major objective of the study was to find out the life experience by orphans and vulnerable children in the orphanages and the surrounding communities. A total of 50 respondents of whom 20 were orphan girls, 10 orphan boys, 5 care takers were orphan girls, 10 orphan boys, 5 caretakers and 10 were teachers of these orphans. The study was a qualitative and as such a descriptive research design was used. Qualitative techniques of data analysis were also used. The study was carried out at Masulita children's village, an orphanage founded by His Excellence Hon. Janet Kataha Museveni. lt's found in Wakiso District North West of Kampala City 39Km. The researcher used both qualitative and quantitative methods during the study. For the purposes of validity, both primary and secondary data, was used during this study. Instruments used were, documentation, questionnaires, interview schedules, observation, not books and pens, plus a camera. The challenges the research met were as follows:- People were fearing to be interviewed for security purposes. For example orphans fearing to tell out their day to day life experiences. 11. The remoteness of the area also became a challenge due to transport costs from Kampala to Masulita. lll. Busy schedules of administrators, it was hard to get them for interviews because of a lot of work they were assigned to.
- ItemUniversal Primary Education and Academic Performance of Pupils in Selected Primary Schools of Masulita Sub-County Wakiso district, Uganda(Kampala International University, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2010-11) Rwabuhihi, Emmanuel FestusThis study established the relationship between Universal primary education and academic performances of pupils’ in Masulita Sub County Wakiso district Uganda. Specifically, the study wanted to establish (i) the relationship between teaching/learning resources (ii) teacher pupil ratio (ii) pupils’ attendance and academic performance of pupils in Masulita Sub County Wakiso district. The study was descriptive and co-relational in nature based on quantitative approach involving 52 teachers and 225 pupils’ selected from five schools in the Sub County using stratified random sampling Primary data on school resources, teacher pupil ratio and pupils attendance were collected using self-administered questionnaires and analyzed by summary statistics (e.g. Means and standard deviations) and Pearson Linear Co-efficient. Data on pupils’ performance were obtained from the selected school with permission of school administrators and summarized using the same statistics. The study found significant relationship between teaching/learning resources; teacher pupil ratio and pupils’ academic performance while the relationship between pupils’ attendance and their academic performance was found to be insignificant. From these findings appropriate conclusions and recommendations were made. The recommendations form the study were; (i) Government and other relevant stakeholder should ensure that there is provision of the basic teaching/learning resources to enable teachers be well equipped to enhance their delivery in order to bring about improvement in performance of pupils (ii) There is a need to hire teacher basing on the number of pupils in the school and to determine the maximum pupil per teacher beyond which pupils can be divided into streams to bring about closeness between the teacher and the pupil and to enable teacher to cater for individual attention (iii) There should be a joint effort by teachers’ parent and other stake holders in encouraging pupils to always attend classes as missing classes mean missing to get what will constitute the assessment and in turn this brings poor performance, and (iv) School feeding programmes need to be established in all UPE schools in Masulita Sub County to attract pupils stay at school throughout the day since being hungry makes some pupils leave school before time to go and get what to eat from homes.