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This study was an action research to improve the orientation and mobility skills of a level 100 student with visual impairment at Wesley College of Education, Kumasi, Ghana. The data was collected through the use of interviews and observations. The sample size for the study was one (1) level 100 student with visual impairment. Data collected for the study was represented on tables and descriptively analysed. The results from the interventional strategies revealed an improvement in the performance of the student based on the skills he was taken through. The problem of fine motor skills which were pre-requisite skills needed for the use of the white cane was addressed after the visually impaired student was taken carefully through the selected activities. The study finally outlined some measures needed to overcome the problem identified on the student and recommended some important measures in training visually impaired persons to be able to move.

The study is an action research which investigated the deficiency in listening skills exhibited by one pre-schooler with low vision at St. Joseph Practice School, Bechem, Ghana. It has the overriding goal of designing appropriate interventions to redress the identified gap. The study revealed that, listening does not develop automatically but deliberate and conscious training. The skills involved in listening were identified as awareness to the presence of sound, identifying the source of the sound, discriminating one sound from another and attaching meaning to what is heard. These are listening skills areas which may pose a challenge to pupils with visual impairment. To achieve the goal of the research, two sets of instruments were employed. Observation and interviews were used to collect data on the problem. Data collected on the problem was discussed, analyzed and presented on a table and a bar graph. It was found out that sound discrimination and sound comprehension are the listening skills areas pose a challenge to pupils with visual impairment and that there was an improvement in the performance across the various listening skill areas. It was recommended that younger children, especially the visually impaired, often times be taken on sound listening trips.

Examination malpractice is an unwholesome practice encapsulating different types of malicious means adopted by unserious students to cheat during examinations in order to score high marks and pass the examinations. The incidence of examination malpractice has become so endemic that the penalty hitherto melted out to its perpetrators is almost having no statistically significant effects on them. There is an astronomical increase in the number of people and institutions involved in this social malaise. The public has not thought of the effects and the repercussions of their endorsement of examination malpractice. This paper therefore addresses the prevalence of examinations malpractice, the forms and agents involved in examination malpractice. The paper also highlights the effects of examination malpractice on the economy.