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Abstract
This paper examined the impact of long distance trekking on students’ academic performance in FCT Post-Basic Education and Career Development (PBECD) schools. The paper revealed that factors responsible for long distance trekking by public Post-Basic Education and Career Development (PBECD) students includes; high cost of transportation fares, lack of schools buses and economic hardship. The paper also identified reduction in the studies times and habits, health challenge and poor school attendance, physical exhaustion and fatigue and poor academic performance as impact of long distance trekking on students of public Post-Basic Education and Career Development (PBECD) schools in FCT. Based on this findings, the paper recommends the following. Governments should provide adequate school buses to all public Post-Basic Education and Career Development (PBECD) schools in FCT to support student movement to school. Principals of public Post-Basic Education and Career Development (PBECD) schools in FCT can collaborate and partner private institutions and international organizations to seek support for school buses for students and teachers. Parents and communities should support public Post-Basic Education and Career Development (PBECD) schools in FCT by providing schools buses to aid students and teachers movement to schools in the territory.