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    Premarital Sexual Relationships and Academic Performance among University Students: A Case of Ardhi University, Tanzania
    (The Mwalimu Nyerere Memorial Academy, 2020-06-01) Jesse, Angela M.; Ongara, Suzan
    Engaging in premarital sexual relationship is found to have effect such as HIV/AIDS infection, STDs/STIs, early and unplanned pregnancies and stress to most youth worldwide. Despite the mentioned effects, most of the youth including university students are still engaging in premarital sexual relationships.This being the case, it was necessary to conduct a study on premarital sexual relationships and academic performance among university students in the study area. The aim was to find out why University students engage in premarital sexual relationship. And how engaging in premarital sexual relationship affect students’ academic performance in the study areas? The Social Exchange Theory (SET) was used to guide the study. In addition, a Cross-sectional research design was used in this study whereby both probability and non-probability sampling procedures were employed. The study found courtship, peer pressure, poverty, mass media and curiosity as the drivers for students’ engagement in premarital sexual relationship. The study concludes that, although there are positive impacts of engaging in premarital sexual relationship among university students, negative effects outweigh positive impacts; and these include stress, which results from fear of being cheated upon or losing a partner, poor performance, and unwanted pregnancies leading to abortion. The study recommends that, the youth specifically university students should be educated on the impact of engaging in premarital sexual relationships on academic performance. Moreover, different programs should be established within universities to expose first-year students to what may happen if they engage in premarital sexual relationship.
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    Socio-cultural factors affecting community secondary school students’ academic performance: case of Mvomero District, Tanzania
    (Sokoine University of Agriculture, 2011) Komunte, Flora
    There is no doubt that education has an enormous potential to deliver people out of poverty, bridge the inequality gap and accelerate socio-economic growth and development. Community secondary schools currently are important to ensure universal access of secondary education and improve education quality. Efforts have been made to improve the condition in the community secondary schools and poor academic performance. Efforts included increasing teachers’ employment but there are many issues that hinder the effectiveness including socio-cultural factors. The overall objective of this study was to determine socio-cultural factors affecting community secondary school students’ academic performance in Mvomero district. The study adopted a cross sectional design. The study involved 110 respondents; these are 100 students and 10 key informants. Respondents were obtained through random sampling technique. Data were collected through the structured questionnaire administered to students, Checklist administered to key informants, that is, parents/guardians of students; teachers and people who lived nearby the community schools. Focus group discussions (FGD’s) were also used during the study to complement information. Findings were analyzed using Statistical Package for Social Sciences Version 16.0 software programme and STATA data analysis software followed by interpretation of results. Study findings illustrated that socio- cultural factors such as family size; family members capable of working; education of the parents; parents’ occupations; distance to and from school and students’ time spent on doing domestic chores affected students’ academic performance. Study findings revealed that there were poor parents involvement in the academic issues related to their children. Moreover, study findings showed that students’ behaviours