Strategic administrative initiatives in schools helps in identifying emerging trends and anticipate future challenges, allowing them to prepare and respond proactively so as to bring change in students’ academic performance. For three consecutive years (2016 -2018), Kisii County’s mean standard score in Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education declined resulting to an average mean standard score of 3.765 (D+) which was still below the National Mean Standard Score of 3.962. The purpose of this study was to determine the extent to which strategic administrative initiatives influence academic performance. Education Production Function theory was applied. The study employed a descriptive survey design. Target population of 353 principals and 4354 teachers were considered from 353 public secondary schools in Kisii County. Slovin’s formula with a margin error of 0.05 was used to sample 28 principals and 341 teachers as respondents. Stratified random sampling was used to get school categories. Instruments for this research included: questionnaire for teachers and interview schedule for principals. Validity of research instruments was ascertained by supervisors’ inputs from the School of Education Kisii University. Questionnaires were considered reliable since Cronbach’s Coefficient Alpha 0.998 obtained was higher than the critical Cronbach alpha of 0.7 on a scale of -1 to +1 by use of test re-test method. Data was analysed both qualitatively and quantitatively. Qualitative data on interview schedules were organized based on research objective and themes of study. Data was presented using percentages, means, frequency distribution tables and bar graphs for easier interpretation. This study’s findings were: The strategic administrative initiatives have a positive influence on academic performance. This study is significant as it indicates that county and sub-county secondary schools need to improve on the application of the strategic administrative initiatives in the academic activities/programs for them to do better academically. In conclusion, National and Extra- County secondary schools’ strategic administrative initiatives have a high positive influence on academic performance compared to county and sub-county secondary schools.

Curriculum based ideological and political education is a new requirement for talent cultivation in universities in the new era of education reform. It includes diversified curriculum based ideological and political education elements such as norms, culture, and competition in traditional ethnic sports, and is the main path to achieve the fundamental task of cultivating morality and talents. On the basis of exploring the effectiveness of traditional ethnic sports teaching in undergraduate colleges under the background of curriculum ideological and political education, this article analyzes how to carry out traditional ethnic sports teaching in undergraduate colleges under the background of curriculum ideological and political education, and give full play to the educational value of traditional ethnic sports.

Nihilism is arguably the most misunderstood term in the history of philosophy. It is best understood as a risk inherent in the act of thinking itself, as noted by the 20th-century philosopher Hannah Arendt, rather than as a collection of "dangerous thoughts." Any notion, no matter how solid or widely accepted it initially appears to be, will eventually cause us to question its veracity if we give it enough thought. Additionally, we can start to question whether or not individuals who embrace the idea understand (or care) whether or not it is accurate. You can stop worrying about why there is so little agreement on so many topics and why other people seem to know so much about things that seem so uncertain to you. I believe that nihilism is beyond good and evil. But people in general have a predilection for negative nihilism. They ignore its positive counterpart out of ignorance. Nietzsche, for instance, had the latter in mind when he wrote those iconoclastic works. Baudrillard, in his most famous work on simulation and simulacra, also dedicates a whole chapter to nihilism. He also had the same in mind. The list is quite interminable. Some deconstructionists with American roots (Yale School of Critics) have also broached this topic to shed light on the modus operandi of deconstruction. I believe it was J. Hillis Miller who replaced the term with ‘parasite’ in his seminal essay The Critic as Host. He was defending ‘Deconstruction’ in the same vein as Philip Sidney did in the 16th century. The accusations levelled against poetry by Plato aeons ago seemed so rebarbative to him to have motivated him to write an ‘An Apology for Poetry’. The apology here was not an apology. It was a tirade against Plato’s Republic. Miller, on the other hand, was not only countering accusations but also explicating American deconstruction. The essay written way back in 1977 has so far received an astounding 935 citations. When I read the essay, I understood it made more sense and was less farfetched than its French counterpart.

This study examined workplace humanization and job effectiveness of business education graduates in tertiary institutions in Rivers State. Two (2) objectives, research questions and null hypotheses were stated, answered, formulated and tested to guide this study. Descriptive survey design was adopted in this study and the population consists of one thousand two hundred and eighty-three business education graduates in public tertiary institutions in Rivers State and the sample size of this study was two hundred and ninety-seven respondents drawn from the population with the use of Taro Yamen formular, hence simple random sampling techniques was adopted in this study. A self-developed questionnaire titled “Workplace Humanization and Job Effectiveness of Business Education Graduates Questionnaire (WoHuJEBEGQu) was used to obtain data for this study. In addition, the said instrument employed face and content validity, which was validated by experts in the study area and a reliability index coefficient of 0.81 was obtained using test-retest method of Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient (PPMC). Mean and standard deviation was used to answer and analyzed the research questions while independent t-test statistical tool was used to test the null hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. Findings of this study revealed that job security and equity in remuneration are the variables of workplace humanization that enhances job effectiveness of business education graduates in tertiary institutions in Rivers State to a high extent. In addition, there is no significant difference in the mean responses of male and female business education graduates on extent job security and equity in remuneration enhances job effectiveness in the aforementioned institutions in Rivers State. It was therefore recommended among others that management of institutions should display equal fairness in the areas of employees’ remuneration so that there will not be room for any marginalization.