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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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In general many African countries have made rapid progress from a low enrolmentbase, largely due to national policies and investment in education as wellas sustained external support by partner agencies. A logical consequence of these achievements...
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2008
Despite rising enrolments in Africa, gender parity has not yet been attained.The constraints on girls' education are due to both the internal workings of educational systems and their socio-cultural environments. When it comes to post-primary...
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2008
The paper is a comparative synthesis of two separate studies commissioned by the Working on Finance and Education (WGFE) on the financing of higher education on two African countries, one Anglophone Kenya and the other Francophone Senegal.. The...
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2008
The presentation shares a synthesis of lessons learned since the launch of Education for Rural People (ERP) in 2002 under the leadership of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations as part of the implementation process for...
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2008
FAWE presents a comparative study on vocational training in sub-SaharanAfrica with a focus on post-conflict situations. The study reviews TVET policies in Burundi, Liberia and Sierra Leone from a gender perspective. The review provides a sense as to...
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2008
Private supplementary tutoring, in which pupils in full-time schools (both public and private) receive extra lessons after school hours, at week-ends and during vacations, became a major phenomenon in parts of Asia a few decades ago. More recently,...
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2008
The present study was launched by the French Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs as a complement to the AFD (French Development Agency) study on mechanisms for funding vocational training, in order to compare various vocational training funds...
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2008
This paper, written from the perspective of higher education, aims to identify, contextualize and offer discussion on key issues at the interface between secondary/ further and higher education that have a significant bearing on effectiveness and...
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2008
In the present Mauritanian context, where economic growth has been boosted by oil production and heavy metal mining, a major challenge has to be met: providing the labour market with the human resources required to respond to the demand. The recent...
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2008