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Item Career Guidance and Academic Performance in Secondary Schools in Gulu City(Gulu University, 2023-12-20) Adong G,MonicaMost secondary schools in the City have been registering a decline in the academic performance and inadequate career guidance services could have attributed. The purpose of the study was to investigate career guidance and academic performance in secondary schools in Gulu City with a view to improve on the standards of academic performance in the City. The objectives of the study were: to determine the status of career guidance in secondary schools in Gulu City; to establish the level of academic performance in Secondary Schools in Gulu City and to measure the relationship between career guidance and academic performance in secondary schools in Gulu City. The Cross sectional correlational survey research design which incorporated mixed methods of data collection involving quantitative and qualitative approaches was adopted for this study. A sample size of 113 respondents was selected from a target population of 160 respondents from five (5) accessible schools in Gulu City. Data were collected using self-administered questionnaires and interview guide and analyzed using percentages and Pearson Product Moment Correlations Coefficient. The study found that the status of career guidance was moderate in the selected schools as most of the secondary schools in Gulu City had career guidance functions and the most common ones were career talks, mentorship programs and teachers helping students when making choices of subjects. The study found that the level of academic performance in most schools in Gulu City was only average (50%) as many secondary schools in Gulu City had registered improvement in the grades of students in both UACE and UCE exams in the previous years. The study findings revealed that career guidance had a positive significant influence on academic performance in secondary schools in Gulu City. The study finally concluded that, career guidance practices was paramount in enhancing academic performance in secondary schools provided it was well implemented. It was recommended that there is need for management of secondary schools to put much emphasis on career guidance in order to realize improvement in academic performance in their schools as the study indicated a positive significant relationship between career guidance and students’ academic performance. The study further recommended that more research should be done on challenges faced in conducting career guidance in secondary schools in Uganda.Item EDUCATION SYSTEM AND SUSTAINABLE PEACE BUILDING IN THE TRANSITIONAL POST CONFLICT ERA: CASE OF KITGUM TOWN COUNCIL(Gulu University, 2013) Kibwota Richard OkidiMost countries in the world are always faced with issues of sustainable peace building after the end of conflicts. One area that can provide a good medium for propagating sustainable peace building in a transitional post conflict area is the education system. The values of sustainable peace that includes respect for human rights, holistic development, post-conflict recovery and poverty eradication initiatives, citizenship and patriotism can all be embedded in the policy, curriculum and content of the education system. This study, carried out in the transitional post-conflict area of Kitgum Town Council sought to examine the interplay between education and sustainable peace building in a post conflict setting. Through a cross-sectional survey research design, the study findings identified indicators of sustainable peacebuilding evident in the education system, including strategies for embedding peacebuilding both in the formal and informal education mechanism, and in service delivery and poverty action programs. However, these initiatives are lacking in focus, and are undermined by corruption, political mechanisms and governance challenges. The study recommends the use of a rights-based approach to enhance good governance to promote transparency, and to focus on the effective use of the formal and informal education systems as vehicles for change, improving community perceptions of peace as a public good, and for the attainment of sustainable peace as a collective responsibility.Item RECOVERY OF FRUIT-FEEDING BUTTERFLY COMMlJNITIES IN BlJDONGO FOREST RESERVE, UGANDA(Gulu University, 2018) Oloya JosephThe effect of anthropogenic activities on the regeneration of forest structure and recovery of anin1al communities is not well known. This study assessed the recovery pattern of fruit feeding butterflies as bio-indicators of environmental disturbance, after about 72 years of selective logging and arboricide treatment in the Budongo Forest Reserve, Uganda. Butterflies were sampled in four selectively logged forest habitats and one primary forest using white cylindrical traps baited with fermented smashed bananas. Sampling was conducted for five straight days within a week between 0700-1700 hours, for five Months. The study compaired the spatial and temporal variation in butterfly species richness, abundance, diversity and community composition in the five forest compartments and also datamined specialist butterfly species characterizing each of the five. A total of 3, 780 individuals, representing 85 species belonging to three families and 28 generations were recorded. There was significant difference in butterfly abundance and diversity between the five compartments and months of study. However, there were no significant differences in the total species richness among the five compartments. This study found no significant directional patterns in the species density, diversity and abundance of butterflies along the successional gradient (gradation of recovery from the youngest to the oldest logged with respect to the primary forest). Communities of all selected logged compartments differed significantly from each other and from the primary forest. The unlogged primary forest had the highest butterfly indicator species compared to the logged compartments. These results demonstrate that logged forest compartments don't yet provide suitable habitats to fully support butterfly communities like the unlogged primary compartments, highlighting the eminent need to conserve primary forests as a long term conservation strategy for butterfly species.Item Quality Benchmarks and the Management of Massification in Science-Based Faculties at Gulu University(Gulu University, 2014-01) Lam-Lagoro JamesThe study addressed the management of massification in the Science-based Faculties at Gulu University guided by the National Council for Higher Education Quality Benchmarks. The study used the single-case study and parallel sample cross-sectional survey design. It covered three science-based departments: Human Anatomy, Computer Science and Bio-Systems Engineering. 294 respondents participated in the study out of the 417 targeted. The sampling techniques used were purposive, random and stratified. Data collection instruments included closed ended structured questionnaires, oral interview schedules, direct observation guide, focus group discussion guides and the archival record guides. Raw data was presented and analyzed by use of descriptive statistics. Major findings indicated that the science-based faculties at Gulu University are experiencing massification: Increasing students’ enrolment against insufficient educational resources, inadequate and un-customized infrastructure, large students to lecturer ratio and unplanned diversification of programmes. In light of the findings therefore, the study recommends that Science-based faculties at Gulu University should draw their development plans mindful of the National Council for Higher Education’s (NCHE) quality standards in order to address massification tendencies in the University. It further recommended that the University Management must tally students’ enrolment commensurately with improvement in the education resources, facilities and infrastructure. The study suggested that further research needs to be carried out in the Universities, to determine how the challenges posed by massification can be addressed and turned into opportunities. Finally it opined that massification should be studied from the perspective of Corporate Management especially with regards to infrastructural planning, education resource allocation and funding.Item Traditional Gender Roles and the Management Performance of Female head Teachers of Primary Schools in Gulu District(Gulu University, 2008) Adimola, Amongi Margaret