scholarly journals Challenging and Changing Lives: The Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) Peer Counseling Program, a Model for Tertiary Institutions

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 73-80
Author(s):  
Paul Antwi ◽  
Frances Emily Owusu-Ansah ◽  
Bernice Ofosuhene S. Peasah ◽  
Victoria De-Graft Adjei ◽  
Stephen Jantuah ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Positive Impact ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Peer Counseling ◽  
Counseling Program ◽  
Developmental Pathway ◽  
Tertiary Institutions ◽  
Kwame Nkrumah ◽  
Education Of Students ◽  
Peer Counselling ◽  
The Impact

This paper is about the KNUST Peer Counsellors Program (KPC); an initiative of the KNUST Counselling Center (KCC). Over the years, the number of Peer Counsellors has increased. Students at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) have likewise increased. The aim of the paper was basically to examine the impact of the peer counselling experience on the students who volunteer to be trained and serve as Peer Counsellors. To the best of our knowledge, no study as yet has examined impact of peer counselling among university students in Ghana. Yet, we believe it is a program worth further exploration and development to equip the youth with altruistic values. Reports from the Peer Counsellors affirm the positive impact of the experience on their lives as young people. It projects a viable developmental pathway, career wise, for some of them aside the promotion of own and others wellbeing. Administrative and functional structure of the KPC is described in the paper and recommended as a program for other tertiary institutions to augment formation and education of students.   Citation:Owusu-Ansah, F. E., Peasah, O. S. B., De-Graft Adjei, V., Jantuah, S. and Hackman, J. (2021). Challenging and Changing Lives: The Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) Peer Counseling Program, a Model for Tertiary Institutions. International Journal of Technology and Management Research (IJTMR), Vol. 6 (2): Pp.73-80. Received: January 3, 2021Accepted: September 1, 2021

scholarly journals Entrepreneurship Education in Nigeria Tertiary Institutions and its Impact on Students’ Entrepreneurial Career Intentions. A Study of Students at Federal Polytechnic Ekowe

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kurotimi Maurice Fems
Keyword(s):  
Phenomenological Study ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Entrepreneurship Education ◽  
Entrepreneurial Intention ◽  
Positive Influence ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Tertiary Institutions ◽  
Career Intention ◽  
Laboratory Technology ◽  
The Impact

 Purpose: Entrepreneurship education as an influencer of graduate entrepreneurial intention is gaining massive attention amongst practitioners, policy makers and academics across the globe. The proliferation of entrepreneurship courses in universities around the world is evident of this wide acceptance of entrepreneurship education as a strategy for graduate entrepreneurship. The purpose of this research paper is to ascertain the impact entrepreneurship education has on students’ entrepreneurial career intentions.Methodology: The article includes a review of literature in entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurial intention to gain background knowledge. This research is a qualitative, interpretive phenomenological study and relies on narrative as a means of knowing, and as a form of communication. The scope of the study is year one students at the Federal Polytechnic of Oil & Gas Ekowe in the departments of Computer Science, Science Laboratory Technology and Statistics. The questionnaire was designed in a semi-structured way and distributed to students to return after 7 days to allow for proper articulation of narratives.Findings: A total of 42 students participated in the interview and 42 returned. 28.57% representing 12 students showed intention to start a business, 40.48% (17 students) desire to get a job after graduation while 13 students (30.95%) are unsure what they want to do after graduation. The results indicate that entrepreneurship education has a positive impact on students’ entrepreneurial career intention but other than EE, it was also revealed from participants’ narratives that age, prior experience and parents’ status have positive influence on graduate entrepreneurial decisions.Implication of Findings: Findings will aid curriculum designers and educational policy makers to scrutinize and re-examine EE programmes and how they are taught to enhance practice.Originality: Narratives and storytelling methods are not the common methods adopted in entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurial intention research. More research should be carried out using this method to validate results from this approach.

scholarly journals INTEGRATION OF SCIENCE IN SHAPING THE CHARACTER OF THE STUDENTS (From the Perpsective of Islamic Education)

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Zein
Keyword(s):  
Research Method ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Islamic Education ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
Social Lives ◽  
Global Era ◽  
Library Research ◽  
The Impact

Religion and science cannot be separated from one to another. Both aspects rely on each other in order to develop. Constructively, the development of science and technology has led to the advance of the era in which has a positive impact to the human lives. Modern infrastructure like those on industrial facility, communication, and transportation simplify the mobility of the society.  This study explains about the integration of science in shaping the charters of the students in the perspective of Islam by using library research method. The library research method is also known as a the method of literature study.  The Islamic education in shaping the students' character in the competition of global era due to the impact of science and technology is very essential and cannot be denied from the social lives. In Islamic education, in order to achieve the success in the world than it has to be based on the science and vice versa. The Islamic education is a system which tries to implement the noble values of the students which include the aspects of knowledge, self –awareness, and application. Any activities that the teachers do should be able to influence the character of the students as a trigger to shape their personality. The Islamic education, in fact, has set the things relating to how the teachers behave, for instance, how they delivering their learning materials, tolerance, and some related matters. The purpose of this behavior is to shape the students to be a good human either in their society or country.

scholarly journals Have FDI quantity and quality promoted the low-carbon development of science and technology parks (STPs)? The threshold effect of knowledge accumulation

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. e0245891
Author(s):  
Shujing Zhang ◽  
Beibei Hu ◽  
Xiufeng Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Positive Impact ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Knowledge Accumulation ◽  
Science And Technology Parks ◽  
Technology Parks ◽  
Level Of Knowledge ◽  
Low Carbon Development ◽  
The Impact

In recent times, China has emphasized five major development concepts to promote high-quality development: coordination, green, innovation, openness, and sharing. As a metamorphosis of these ideas, Chinese science and technology parks (STPs) are gathering areas of high-tech industries and represent advanced productive forces. Their greenness, openness, and innovative developments herald the future development trends of China. Based on the data of 52 STPs in China from 2011 to 2018, this study analyzes the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) quantity and quality on the low-carbon development of the STPs. We use Hansen’s nonlinear panel threshold regression model with knowledge accumulation as the threshold variable. The results show the following: First, there are complex nonlinear relationships between FDI quantity, FDI quality, and the low-carbon development of the STPs. Second, FDI quantity has a significant positive impact on the low-carbon development of the STPs only when the level of knowledge accumulation is below a certain threshold. Beyond this threshold the effect is no longer significant. Third, FDI quality has a significant positive impact on the low-carbon development of STPs only when the level of knowledge accumulation is lower than a certain threshold; beyond which, the impact is no longer significant. These results can serve as a reference for China to effectively promote economic low-carbon growth of STPs and achieve green, open, and innovative development.

scholarly journals Relevance of Counselling Services among Graduate Students at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, (KNUST), Kumasi, Ghana

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 81-86
Author(s):  
Paul Antwi ◽  
Victoria De-Graft Adjei ◽  
Regina Nuako ◽  
Bernice Ofosuhene S. Peasah
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Management Research ◽  
Effective Utilization ◽  
Kwame Nkrumah ◽  
Counselling Services ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Counselling Center

This is a study showcasing the utilization and knowledge of Counselling Services by Graduate Students at KNUST. The counselling Center of KNUST has been in existence over a decade and most of the clients that patronize its services are undergraduate students with few being Graduate Students. This paper was basically aimed at examining the level of awareness the KNUST Counselling Center, the services provided for members of the university community including graduate students and patronage of the services among Graduate students. There is minimal literature about studies done on Graduate students and counselling and there has not been such study to examine the impact of counselling among Graduate students in a university in Ghana. Therefore, it is hopedthat this study will lead to further studies among graduate students towards better ways of resolving their issues to improve their mental health. From the study, most Graduate students attest to the fact that Counselling is very important and some confirmed that they would recommend the KNUST-Counselling Center to other students. The services and benefits of the KNUST Counselling Center are described in this paper. Alternative ways for effective utilization of the services of the counselling center are explained to support graduate students to improve their mental heal while in school.   Citation:De-Graft Adjei, V., Nuako, R. and Peasah, B. O. S. (2021). Relevance of Counselling Services among Graduate Students at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, (KNUST), Kumasi, Ghana. International Journal of Technology and Management Research (IJTMR), Vol. 6 (2): Pp.81-86. Received: April 19, 2020Accepted: September 1, 2021

scholarly journals Influence of the Cognition of Student Entrepreneurs on Decision Making Based on Factor Analysis

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (12) ◽  
pp. 158
Author(s):  
Shaoying Wang ◽  
Linghui Liu ◽  
Shaoyu Wang
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Cognitive Ability ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Market Competition ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Monitoring And Control ◽  
Student Entrepreneurs ◽  
Entrepreneurial Decision ◽  
And Control ◽  
The Impact

With the progress of science and technology, the emergence of new technologies has greatly promoted young college students' entrepreneurial boom. However, the progress of science and technology not only brings more opportunities for entrepreneurship, but also makes the market competition more intense. High-speed information updating makes the risk of entrepreneurship sharply increase. Individual entrepreneurship gradually transforms into group entrepreneurship, further increasing the complexity of decision-making. In order to reduce entrepreneurial decision-making errors, this study empirically analyzed the impact of entrepreneurial cognitive ability on entrepreneurial decision-making of entrepreneurial groups of students in Beiijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and other regions who have been entrepreneurs for three months to six years. The data of five factors, entrepreneurial consensus ability, professional allocation ability, monitoring and control ability, decision-making speed and effect of decision making, were collected through questionnaire. The relationships between the factors were initially determined using SPSS, and the causal relationship was further analyzed using multi-variable regression analysis. The results showed that entrepreneurial consensus ability and professional allocation ability had a significant positive impact on decision-making speed, monitoring and control ability had no significant impact on decision-making speed, professional allocation ability and monitoring ability had a significant positive impact on decision-making effect, and entrepreneurial consensus ability had no significant impact on decision-making effect. In conclusion, entrepreneurial cognitive ability of student entrepreneurs has a significant impact on entrepreneurial decision-making.

Entrepreneurship education in Ghana – the case of the KNUST entrepreneurship clinic

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 573-590 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ralph Nyadu-Addo ◽  
Mavis Serwah Benneh Mensah
Keyword(s):  
Experiential Education ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Entrepreneurship Education ◽  
Monitoring And Evaluation ◽  
Future Research ◽  
University Management ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Kwame Nkrumah ◽  
Step Model ◽  
The Impact

PurposeEntrepreneurship education thrives on the pillars of experiential education. Using the case of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Ghana, the purpose of this paper is to examine the entrepreneurship clinic (EC) as a viable pedagogy for the promotion of experiential education in entrepreneurship.Design/methodology/approachThe paper relies on insider action research to analyse, within Joplin’s five-step model, the case of the EC at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Ghana.FindingsThe analysis showed that the KNUST clinic comprises five main activities including preparation, orientation, selection and matching, coaching and monitoring and evaluation. In relation to Joplin’s five-step model, the first three stages of the clinic provide focus for the clinic while the remaining two stages – coaching and monitoring and evaluation – entail activities that are geared towards action, support, feedback and debrief. Through the clinic, thousands of tertiary students have been trained in entrepreneurship and new venture creation; some selected participants have been coached while others have had the opportunity to qualify for business incubation.Research limitations/implicationsAlthough the paper discusses some achievements of the clinic in relation to enrolment and fundraising, it does not assess the impact of the clinic on the entrepreneurial competencies, intentions and initiatives of participants, hence, these issues are recommended for future research.Practical implicationsThe paper demonstrates that it is feasible to implement the EC methodology, irrespective of the cost and time implications that are often associated with experiential educational methodologies. However, support from university management, funding raising from internal and external sources and technical support from industry and government agencies are key to the sustainability of clinics.Originality/valueThe paper adds novelty to the entrepreneurship education literature by bringing to the fore how a university in an emerging African economy is implementing and managing the EC pedagogy.

scholarly journals Impact of Work Life Balance on Organizational Commitment of University Teachers: Evidence from Jashore University of Science and Technology

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (04) ◽  
Author(s):  
Arifa Akter ◽  
Mohammad Awal Hossen ◽  
Md. Nazrul Islam
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Commitment ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Pearson Correlation ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Work And Family ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Work Life Balance ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
University Teachers ◽  
The Impact

Increased imbalance between work and family life of university teachers is an alarming issue now-a-days. The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between work life balance and organizational commitment of teaching employees of Jashore University of Science and Technology in Bangladesh. Data has been collected from 80 respondents through a questionnaire survey. Pearson correlation and regression model have been developed based on this dataset to get the result. The result shows that significant number of teachers perceived there is a positive impact of work life balance on the level of commitment towards their organization. This study certainly answers the question regarding the impact of work life balance on organizational commitment of the teaching employees. Moreover, further studies are encouraged to analyze the impact of work life balance by incorporating all the stakeholders of an organization which may help to generalize the findings of this study.

ASSESSING THE IMPACT OF A SENIORS' PEER COUNSELING PROGRAM

1989 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beryl J. Petty ◽  
Sandra A. Cusack
Keyword(s):  
Peer Counseling ◽  
Counseling Program ◽  
The Impact

Impact of Digital Technology Training on English for Science and Technology Teachers in India

RELC Journal ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 117-133
Author(s):  
Santosh Kumar Mahapatra
Keyword(s):  
Administrative Support ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Evaluation Criteria ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Training Programme ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Service Training ◽  
Field Notes ◽  
The Impact

With digital literacies becoming an essential competency for teachers across the world, recent educational policies in India emphasize teachers’ ability to use digital technologies for pedagogic purposes and the use of digital technologies by teachers as one of the evaluation criteria for ranking institutions. In the absence of any properly established policy on in-service training in digital technologies for teachers, such policies cannot be expected to promote effective learning. Moreover, little effort is being made to keep track of the impact of training in digital technologies on teachers’ pedagogic practices. In light of the above background, the proposed multiple-case study aims to explore changes in the practices of three English for Science and Technology (EST) teachers in India. The main objective of the study is to compare the teachers’ technology integration practices before and after they participated in a 12-hour need-based training programme in digital technologies. Data for the study were collected through questionnaires, interviews, classroom observations, field notes and e-portfolios. Results suggest that the programme had a positive impact on their practices and there was difference in the way the three teachers selected, used and thought about digital technologies. Factors such as motivation, administrative support, students’ response to the use of technologies, and awareness about students’ language needs shaped their practices.

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