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<p>School heads as senior executives are thought to provide the institution ethical tone at the top to impact on subordinates. As a result, the study investigated how heads ethical leadership and teacher professional values influence students’ academic achievement, using a survey of 370 respondents in senior high schools in the Northern Region of Ghana. Questionnaires were used to collect data and analysed using descriptive and inferential statistics. It emerged from the study that ethical leadership practice of school heads and unadulterated professional values are fundamental to teachers, students and the entire school organization. Results from the study showed that mentorship, honesty and trust were core ethical leadership attributes of heads. The current study and other empirical research points to the fact that teacher professional values including reliability, professionalism and trust are keen in teacher’s career success. The study recommends that practicing and prospective heads are made to go for professional development sessions on ethical leadership behaviours. Again, induction and effective orientation on professional standards and values should form part of teacher recruitment and lifelong learning since they are vital for positive teacher identity and excellent learning outcomes.</p><p> </p><p><strong> Article visualizations:</strong></p><p><img src="/-counters-/edu_01/0716/a.php" alt="Hit counter" /></p>

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This study was to seek the opinion of teachers and students on school-based factors that affect education and completion in Sekyere South District and the Asante Mampong Municipality of Ghana. The population for the study was teachers and students selected from nine circuits in these two-study areas. In all one thousand and eighty teachers and students were sampled to take part in the study. Questionnaire was used for data collection. Data was analysed descriptively using frequencies and percentages, means and standard deviation. The study revealed that school location, inadequate learning materials, lack of well-equipped school libraries were some of the factors affecting students' education and completion in these educational directorates. The study recommends that the district and municipal directorates of education and other stakeholders in education take it upon themselves to educate students on the adverse effects of truancy and reducing large class size in addition to providing learning resources. Teacher and student motivation are crucial in enhancing optimal performance and quality education. Hence, educational stakeholders in the study area should strategize to reward hard working teachers to enable them give of their best to step up performance in school and ensure school completion. It is also recommended that periodic workshops should be organized for teachers, to educate them on best practices in education today to improve education and school completion in the study area.

The current study investigated the outlook of sandwich programmes from the lenses of students, based on the acceptability of the programme, quality of the teaching and learning process as well as the challenges sandwich students face. With a survey research design, 250 sandwich students answered questions on the three constructs. At the end of the study, the researchers found evidence that there were no significant differences in the acceptability of sandwich programme, quality of sandwich programmes, challenges of sandwich students, based on gender as well as age. Males and females as well as older and younger students provided similar responses. Secondly, there was a significant difference in the three constructs, based on programme of study. Students offering different programmes provided different information. Thirdly, out of the three constructs, the challenges that sandwich students face had a significant difference in terms of their employment status. Students who were employed and those who were not employed gave different responses. Fourthly, there was a strong positive correlation among the three constructs. Finally, age, quality of sandwich programmes, and challenges of sandwich student’s constructs were good predictors of the acceptability of the sandwich programmes. The researchers recommend that there should be a close look at the age of students, the quality of teaching and learning process, and the challenges of sandwich students in order to determine the sustenance of sandwich programmes. Keywords: Acceptability of Sandwich Programme, Quality of Sandwich Programmes, Challenges of Sandwich Students, Sandwich Students, Distance Education.