Mohammed Gunu Ibrahim

• Lecturer at University for Development Studies

This study examines the relationship between remittance inflows and school enrolment rates across primary, secondary and tertiary levels of education in Africa. The authors employ data from 43 African countries spanning 2000–2021 and apply the generalised method of moments (GMM) estimator for analysis. The results reveal that remittance inflows hav...

Good governance has been advocated as the ideal which governments should embrace. The concept relates to a governance system that is transparent, accountable, effective and participatory. This study investigated the relationship between these tenets of good governance and citizen participation in local governance in Ghana. The study utilized...

The study examined how Inquiry-Based Learning affects students' academic progress in science lessons and whether this approach can help low-proficiency users of English to comprehend scientific concepts. The study used a Quasi-Experimental design and looked at it through the lens of Self-Determination theory. The study included a total of 40 second...

This study explores the causes, forms and effects of teacher misbehaviour on the educational progression of basic school level students in the Tamale Metropolis in the Northern Region of Ghana. The study employed the survey design and adopted a quantitative approach in analyzing the data. The findings revealed that absenteeism, drunkenness, sexual...

There is an increasing interest in school leadership's ability to maintain school discipline whilst protecting students' rights and dignity as well as self-esteem. The accelerating interest in school leadership's ability to maintain a disciplined school is anchored on the belief that school discipline determines student learning outcomes. Whilst th...

Researchers across the disciplines use different designs in the quest to authentically reflect the phenomena they investigate. One design claiming to capture the lived experiences of individuals in an appropriate way is qualitative-case study. This article focuses on generalisability of qualitative case study research findings by reflecting on educ...

Professionals all over the world including teachers need to update their knowledge and skills often through diverse Continuous Professional Development Programmes (CPDP’s). Using the Descriptive Survey Design and Mixed Method Approach, this paper assesses the policy requirements and the potency of these training programmes in relation to the workin...

Drawing on the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown experience, higher education institutions in Ghana invested in and are deriving strategies to fully utilise the Online Teaching and Learning platform. However, these strategies will not be successful if ICT is not fully integrated into the school curriculum. In Ghana, efforts have been made by different gov...

This study examines the impact of government educational expenditure and school enrolment on economic growth in Ghana over the period 1970-2017. The research employs the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) technique based on the results of the Phillips-Perron unit root test. The findings show that government educational expenditure within the per...

Professionals all over the world including teachers need to update their knowledge and skills often through diverse Continuous Professional Development Programmes (CPDP's). Using the Descriptive Survey Design and Mixed Method Approach, this paper assesses the policy requirements and the potency of these training programmes in relation to the workin...

The study seeks to access challenges of the school feeding programme and its effects on enrolment and attendance in the Northern Region of Ghana. The review of relevant literature in this study identified the challenges within the school feeding programme which included political interference, non-involvement of the Ghana Education Service and the...

This research is about the nuisances of social media applications on a Wi-Fi network at a university campus in Ghana. The aim was to access the security risk on the network, the speed of the network, and the data consumption of those platforms on the network. Network Mapper (Nmap Zenmap) Graphical User Interface 7.80 application was used to scan th...

Abusive disciplinary measures create hardships for students. This article explores alternative disciplinary measures which can replace the abusive punishment in Ghanaian High Schools. It hopes to propel a change of approach in policy, teacher professionalism and practice. It is a qualitative case-study which was conducted using semi-structured inte...

This paper examines education policy-making in Ghana. It focuses on the roles different policy actors should play to depoliticise the process of education policy-making. The depoliticisation agenda as contains in this presentation has the potential to promote Sustainable National Development. This paper examines how far key actors like political pa...

In this article, school disciplinary exclusions in high schools in Ghana are highlighted to explore alternatives to school exclusions. The 2017 budget and the preceding budgets of the Republic of Ghana clearly indicate that the bulk of the nation’s expenditure is spent on education. Part of the 2017 budget is especially targeted at making the senio...