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This report focuses on youth living in rural areas of South Africa who areaged between 15 and 28 and who left school without a grade 12 certificate.It examines the non-formal and formal educational and training opportunitiesavailable to youth who...
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This paper summarizes Latin-American trends in recent policies and programs addressed to increase disadvantaged youth employability and employment. Revising the financial, institutional and learning arrangements of the programs,??linked or not...
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This desk study was based principally on the documents of education, agriculture, and health sectors and organized around the same. Non-Formal PPET policy provisions and implementation are weak in the education sector. Non-Formal PPET is extensively...
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2008
Issues of providing equitable access to post-secondary education are common inmany developing countries. These issues are compounded by lack of targeted, deliberate articulation between formal and non-formal streams within certaineducation systems.....
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This paper briefly inventories the reasons that formal education systems are not currently educating all children in SSA and cannot accommodate significantly more children in post-primary education (chapter 1). It goes on to explore the evolution of...
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Thisexperience focuses on young drop-outs from the educational system, which is now known as the CED (Education Centers for Development) strategy, started in 1993, when 20 pioneer centers supervised by the former DNAFLA (Directionnationale de l'...
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Despite a sincere commitment to achieve Education for All, there is a huge gender gap in secondary schooling: In African countries only one in five girls enrol in secondary school,and countries have large gender gaps. Boys continue to have higher...
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While there is much talk about 'the tragedy of education in Africa', exciting opportunities now exist for governments across sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) who are prepared to embrace the full potential of open and distance learning (ODL), in...
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This paper is a critical review of selected ODL interventions at post-primary school level in Africa. The purpose of the review is to show the state of ODLon the continent and shed some light on its potential to address problems of educational...
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This paper argues that post primary education in Africa is uneven, biased by gender, location, class and region, resulting in the illiteracy of the majority of girls and women in Africa.The paper argues for provision of good quality formal and non-...
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