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CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Background to the Study The heads of educational enterprises such as principals of secondary schools, vice chancellors of Universities, Rectors of the polytechnics have the responsibility of seeing to the smooth running of a school. The extent to which the principal succeeds in carrying out this responsibility depends on a number of factors and one of them has to do with the records that he is expected to keep. These records give a lot of information about the school that will enable him or her to take decisions and also assess the progress of the school. Different people such as the headmaster, the class teacher, and the local government education authority keep different records about the school. School records are official documents, books and files containing essential and crucial information on actions and events which are kept and preserved in the school offices for utilization and retrieval of information when needed (Durosaro, 2002). Such records are...

What is potash? Potash is the common term for fertiliser forms of the element potassium (K). The name derives from the collection of wood ash in metal pots when the beneficial fertiliser properties of this material were first recognised many centuries ago. Potash in Nature Potassium occurs abundantly in nature. It is the 7th most common element in the earths crust. Certain clay minerals associated with heavy soils are rich sources of K, containing as much as 17% potash. Sea water typically contains 390 mg/l K representing a huge total amount of the element globally. Small quantities of K naturally occur in rain – up to 4 ppm. Large potash bearing rock deposits occur in many regions of the world deriving from the minerals in ancient seas which dried up millions of years ago. Potash for fertiliser is mainly derived from this potash rock, requiring only separation from the salt and other minerals and physical grading into a form suitable for fertiliser manufacture or farm spreading. F...

Scope of Political Economics For purposes of exposition the field of political economy is often divided into four parts: production, consumption, distribution, and exchange. Some authors omit one or another of these divisions, treating its problems under the remaining heads. Production The department of production is concerned with the creation of wealth through the united efforts of land, labor, and capital. The creation of wealth involves the bringing into existence of utilities, that is, of capacities to satisfy wants. Utilities are created by changes in form of goods, or in their location, or by keeping them from a time of less demand to a time of greater demand. Consumption Consumption is concerned with the destruction of utilities in goods. It is the utilization of wealth, the carrying out of the purpose for which wealth is produced. Distribution The department of distribution considers the manner in which the wealth which has been produced is divided among the agents whic...

Political Economy Definition: refers to the study of how economic theory and methods influences political ideology. Political economy is the interplay between economics, law and politics, and how institutions develop in different social and economic systems, such as capitalism, socialism and communism. Political economy analyzes how public policy is created and implemented. Originally, the term is used for studying production, buying, and selling, and their relations with law, custom, and government, as well as with the distribution of national income and wealth. Political economy originated in moral philosophy. It developed in the 18th century as the study of the economies of states, polities, hence the term political economy. In the late 19th century, the term economics came to replace political economy, coinciding with publication of an influential textbook by Alfred Marshall in 1890. Earlier, William Stanley Jevons, a proponent of mathematical methods applied to the subject, adv...

What is nitrite Nitrites are nitrogen-oxygen chemical units which combine with various organic and inorganic compounds. Uses for nitrite. The greatest use of nitrates is as a fertilizer. Once taken into the body, nitrates are converted to nitrites.: Nitrite’s health effects Infants below six months who drink water containing nitrite in excess of the maximum contaminant level (MCL) could become seriously ill and, if untreated, may die. Symptoms include shortness of breath and blue baby syndrom Nitrites are cause for concern in infants under 6 months of age and farm animals. They affect the blood’s ability to carry oxygen. Nitrites get into the body when nitrates are ingested, both from food and water, and nitrate reducing bacteria in an infant’s digestive tract converts the nitrate to nitrite. Once the nitrite enters the blood stream and binds to the hemoglobin, oxygen cannot be carried, and “blue-baby” syndrome (bluish tint to skin due to lack of oxygen) occurs, as well as shortn...