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As presently conceptualized, entrepreneurship education is implemented in Nigerian tertiary educational institutions to equip the undergraduate with business skills that would make them self-employed rather than job seekers, at graduation. The assessed relationship between personal attitude and the entrepreneurship intention among students in Federal Polytechnic in Northern Nigeria This study was guided by a hypothesis. The study adopted causal comparative (Ex-Post-factor) design. The population of the study was made up of all the students in federal polytechnics in Northern Nigeria. Simple random sampling method named Dip-hand sampling method was used to select the sampled states for the study while proportional sampling method was used in selecting respondents from each school in the selected federal polytechnics, while the sample size was 1,135. The instrument for the study was researcher's developed Likert-type questionnaire named influence of entrepreneur courses in the development of students' career opportunities in Universities Nigeria. Split-half reliability was used to test the reliability of the instrument with reliability index of 0.79. PPMC was used to test hypothesis six at 0.05 alpha level of significance. It was concluded that students in Federal Polytechnic in Northern Nigeria have personal attitude towards entrepreneurship intention. It was recommended that Government should provide loans to encourage small and medium scale enterprises.

The public vaccination activity carried out within the Health Polytechnic of Kerta Cendekia is a form of the active role of the academic community of the Health Polytechnic of Kerta Cendekia in dealing with Covid-19 and supports the accelerated vaccination program carried out by the Government of Indonesia. The activity will be held on September 17, 2021, at the Health Polytechnic of Kerta Cendekia Campus. The target of this vaccination activity is the academic community of the Health Polytechnic of Kerta Cendekia and the community around the campus who need vaccines, both the first and second doses. This activity was held in collaboration with the Health Polytechnic of Kerta Cendekia with the Sidoarjo District Health Office. This vaccination activity was attended by 176 people who attended to vaccinate, both the first dose and the second dose. The activity starts at 9.20 WIB and ends at 14.00 WIB. This activity has involved 9 lecturers, 4 staff, and 14 students. In addition, this activity also involved 4 alumni who acted as vaccinators. The activity ran smoothly, in an orderly manner, and still implemented physical distancing in its implementation.

The study focuses on post occupancy evaluation of students' satisfaction with hostels facilities in Federal Polytechnic Offa, Kwara State with a view to determine factors that promote users' satisfaction with the hostel facility in terms of its services/amenities provided, structural features, environmental features, accommodation details and locational attributes. The hostel is wholly under the management and control of the Polytechnic. Four Hundred and Sixty (460) respondents were taken as the sample size for the study. 28 structured questionnaires were administered to the workforce of the hostel management using purposive sampling while 432 structured questionnaires were administered to the students occupying the school hostel. A total of 341 (74%) questionnaires was returned and found valid for analysis. Data analysis was conducted using descriptive statistical techniques such as frequency distribution table, Weighted Mean Score (WMS) and Relative Importance Indexes (RII). Findings revealed that there were mixed levels of satisfaction with elements of student hostel facilities. There was a strong indication of satisfaction with the environmental features compared to the other four elements of the hostel facilities. The students were dissatisfied with facilities either because they are inadequate in number or quality or because of the location. The study recommends that the polytechnic management should ensure that facilities that aid students' academic performance should be prioritized. This will help to improve the satisfaction level among students with hostel facilities.

PurposeInterest in creating high performance organizations (HPOs) has been growing in the Middle East and Middle Eastern managers have been looking into practices that will help them elevate organizational performance. Unfortunately there is a shortage of HPO studies conducted in the Middle East which could help these managers. The purpose of this paper is to examine the applicability of the recently developed HPO Framework in a Middle Eastern context, namely at Palestine Polytechnic University (PPU). The goal of the study was to evaluate whether this framework could be applied in the Middle Eastern context and thus help improve performance of Middle Eastern organizations.Design/methodology/approachA workshop was conducted with management and staff of the university at PPU's premises in Hebron. During the workshop, management, staff and teachers filled in the HPO questionnaire, which gauges the current HPO status of an organization. The resulting HPO score of PPU, and the comparison with the scores of other Middle‐Eastern organizations in the database of the researchers, were discussed during a workshop with representatives of PPU and initial improvements were established and put down in an action plan.FindingsWith an average HPO score of 6.8, PPU was an average scoring organization that performed more or less the same as the other Middle‐East organizations. However, two main issues for PPU emerged that had to be addressed in order to transform the university in an HPO. The first issue was that PPU's performance management process had to be improved, as not everything that mattered to PPU's performance was communicated to everybody adequately enough. The second issue was that the performance‐driven behavior of PPU's people had to be strengthened, as the decision‐making and action‐taking processes took too long and people were nor resilient and flexible enough to deal quickly with changing conditions.Practical implicationsPractically, the research findings could help managers of Middle Eastern organizations to achieve sustainable high performance in their organizations.Originality/valueThe research described in this paper constitutes one of the first studies into the determining factors of sustainable high performance in the Middle East and as such, it adds to the strategic management literature by showing that the HPO concept can be applied in the Middle East to evaluate the high performance status of Middle Eastern organizations.

This study aimed to determine: Student management planning and implementation in improving cadets' discipline at the Malahayati Aceh Shipping Polytechnic and the Obstacles faced in managing students in improving cadets' discipline. Data collection techniques through observation, interviews, and documentation studies. The subjects of this study were directors, heads of academic administration and cadets, instructors/lecturers/teachers, and cadets and cadets. The results of the study are: 1) Planning for cadet and cadet management at the Malahayati Aceh Shipping Polytechnic is carried out based on vision and mission and consists of a) planning for the acceptance of cadets and cadets; b) planning for character development for cadets and cadets; c) planning the implementation of cadets and cadets' learning; and d) planning for the implementation of cadet and cadet learning evaluations. 2) The implementation of cadet and cadet management is by carrying out all regulations such as the cadet and cadet regulations as well as procedures that have been previously arranged and the implementation of all planned programs, namely the implementation of cadet and cadet admissions new, implementation of character training, implementation of learning, and implementation of learning evaluation; 3) The obstacles faced in carrying out student management to improve the discipline of cadets and cadets are not too heavy. The obstacles encountered are only internal, namely between caregivers, instructors and cadets and cadets.

Between 29 April and 1 May, 2008 we attended an international conference that discussed Central Asian security issues. Political scientists and politicians from 17 countries and several international structures gathered in Tashkent for this highly representative forum to assess the already obvious threats to Central Asian security; discuss the new and less obvious threats and challenges; and outline potential cooperation trends aimed at ensuring regional security in the 21st century. The authors, who by citizenship belong to the member states of "organizations and alliances that follow different vectors," have taken the trouble of showing the road toward their countries' potential partnership in the key regional stability spheres. They deliberately avoided agitation and propaganda either of the "pro-Russian" or "pro-Western" security vectors in Central Asia to insist that cooperation rather than rivalry among the main actors present in the region can finally produce a security system that will meet the national interests of the regional states and of the world community as a whole. This is an economically justified and civilized pattern of international relations.