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This study examined teaching professionalism: a comparison of teachers in training. The design for the study is ex-post-facto. The sample included 46 males and 89 females who had done the first and second teaching practice exercises. The data were collected using the Teaching Performance Assessment Form and analysed using mean, paired sample t-test and analysis of variance statistics. The hypotheses were tested at an alpha significance level of 0.05. Results indicate (i) no significant difference between students’ first and the second teaching practice exercise, (ii) no significant difference in students’ performance based on gender, (iii) a non-significant difference in the performance of students as regards their course of study.

This study aims to describe: the relationship between education and society, the notion of education, the notion of society, and the sociology of education. This research is a qualitative research with descriptive method. The information obtained came from one of the teachers who taught at the research site and the surrounding community. The results of this study are the development of education, community participation in education, and the supporting and inhibiting factors in the relationship between education and the community, namely the development of education in the research area is quite good, the community participates in activities carried out by the school, for example when holding competitions, supporting factors that is, there is a systematic program and planning, the condition of the school organization is quite good and the inhibiting factor is the lack of public understanding of the importance of having a relationship between parents and school, the road to school is quite far. Efforts to overcome these obstacles are to provide information as clearly as possible to parents about what is on the agenda in meetings or meetings between parents and the school.

This study aimed at establishing how disciplinary committees managed learner behaviour within the school context. The objectives of the study were to: establish how Disciplinary Committees dealt with acts of indiscipline; explore the perceptions of head teachers, deputy head teachers, senior teachers, class teachers and pupils on indiscipline; and identify strategies used by Disciplinary Committees in handling pupil indiscipline in selected secondary schools of Southern, Zambia. Purposive sampling procedure was used to select the head teachers, deputy head teachers, and class teachers, while random sampling procedure was employed to select pupils who participated in the study. The findings of the study revealed that punishment in form of manual work, suspension, and forced transfers were used. However, the penalty depended on the gravity of the case and this was done depending on the case done by the learners. With regard to the perceptions of the pupils and members of the disciplinary committees, it was found that most pupils knew where to report the cases of indiscipline in school.  They also perceived these committees as effective enough in combating pupil indiscipline in school. As regards the strategies used by disciplinary committees to overcome indiscipline in schools, it was found that sensitization of the learners proved to be the most effective way of improving pupil behavior in schools. Furthermore, incorporating guidance and counselling services was yet another important method which the schools employed. Based on the findings, the study recommended inter alia that regular marking of the school attendance register by teachers should be enhanced and students who absent themselves from school without permission from the school should be dealt with so as to serve as deterrent measure to others. Disciplinary committees in schools should also consider having meetings more frequently so that they can discuss new ways and means of fighting Indiscipline.

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The study was aims to explain the factors that influence business sustainability of MSMEs using external environment, entrepreneurial characteristics, technological sophistication, and business performance as variables in Gresik regency. The study uses a quantitative approach. The sample on this study was MSMEs perpetrators in Gresik regency. Non-sampling sampling with technical compulsions is used to acquire samples from as many as one hundred respondents. While the technique for data analysis is PLS (Partial Least Square), validity tests, reliability tests, and hypothesis testing are also conducted. According to the findings of the study, the external environment, entrepreneurial characteristics, technological sophistication, and business performance all have a positive impact on the business sustainability of MSMEs in Gresik Regency.