The book assesses the impact of disciplinary procedures on guidance and counseling programmes in secondary schools in a developing country Kenya. It is premised on the assertion that discipline together with guidance and counseling are corrective agents of modeling students' personality and behaviour. The book identifies factors within the disciplinary procedures that influence efficiency of guidance and counseling programmes in schools. It also articulates the guidance and counseling parameters that are dependent on disciplinary procedures for their efficient implementation. Other barriers...

This book is a reflection on the factors contributing to primary school pupils' drop-out in a rural set up of a developing African country. It scrutinizes the efforts invested by stakeholders to retaining pupils in school besides considering weaknesses in the approaches employed by the stakeholders. The reflection is anchored in the reality that although primary school enrolment has improved tremendously worldwide in the last decade, Sub-Saharan Africa still struggles to reduce the phenomenal problem of pupils dropping out of school after enrolment. The problem of school retention is...

The book assesses the impact of credit financing on the performance of Micro and Small Enterprises (MSEs) in rural- urban set up of a developing economy. It notes that credit financing has a significant role on their performance, both in terms of growth, information seeking behavior and attainment of customer value and satisfaction as indicators of MSEs performance. Further, it notes that although credit models that are operational in Kenya seem to be working with regard to low cost of sustainability among micro-financiers and high recovery rates from borrowers; they have failed to address...