10/27/2012

Can You Save A Lot By Eating More Fruits And Vegetables?

The benefit in eating more fruits and vegetables is not a financial gain it is in a healthy gain. Adding more fruits and vegetables to your diet will begin to clean your system out and it will also clean your wallet out too. Although there are no known statistics for the weekly grocery list for a vegan or vegetarian, we can do an approximate guess on the average cost per week. However, keep in mind these numbers can inflate or deflate based upon the ages of the people in the family and will vary depending on the part of the country in which they live. Statistics that have been found for the average college student who is vegan spends is roughly

10/19/2012

Menace Of Sorting In Universities

Education has been universally acclaimed as an indispensable tool for socio-economic revolution and transformation which is achieved through empowerment of its beneficiaries with knowledge, skills, attitude and disposition to enable them effect personal and national development. At present the ability of the university education in Nigeria to perform the above function effectively appears to be in doubt. This is as a result of the prevalence and ongoing intensity of the occurrence of sorting in the universities.
Sorting which is basically when an academically defiant student sorts himself out with the teacher or lecturer or the other persons in authority with a view of securing favors to wipe out that deficiency. This sorting term was an invention that creeped into the Nigeria University system in 1992, during the military regime of General Babaginda when very meager Salaries were paid to University lecturers. Out frustration, some naïve lecturers started illegal collection of money and gift items from student in exchange of impressive grades in favors of the students.

10/13/2012

Maintenance of Discipline in Schools


Behavioral problems in schools generally are and have been an area of concern for teachers, education policy makers and the public in general. Discipline of the learners in schools has been and is still regarded as a valuable cornerstone of learning. Discipline refers to the kind of order involved in trying to reach appropriate standards or follow appropriate rules of engaging in a valued activity. The valued activity of learners involves all that is meant to be formally learned in school.
Discipline refers to understanding of what is right and wrong or self-discipline being more than obedience to rules. Learners will be self-disciplined if they understand their responsibilities and behave accordingly in a classroom or learning environment or valued activity.
Actions that are or can be linked to any anti-social behavior such as laziness or acts of violence are always associated with a lack of discipline.