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A number of obstacles, relating to both supply and demand, bar the way to access to schooling for rural children. Among these obstacles, problems related to teachers are particularly acute: the shortage of teachers, their under-qualification, weak...
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This paper is based on a survey conducted via a questionnaire administered to schools selected according to criteria of effectiveness in Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania and Zambia. The principals of these schools were asked to respond, on the...
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The aim of the seminar was to stimulate the debate over the development of curricula meeting the current and future needs of African contexts. More specifically, it sought to identify and analyze the challenges raised by such a process, the...
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The presentation is primarily based on a review of African experiences of bilingual education. This research is an integral part of the follow-up activities to the 2003 Biennale on improving the quality of education through the use of African...
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This paper is an explication of how the African Virtual University (AVU) has implemented a Teacher Education Program. The project is meant to train teachers in mathematics, science and the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs)...
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The critical analysis of the performance of countries in the South towards the achievement of the objectives set at the education For All (AFA) Forum in Dakar confirms that present key concerns remain the necessity of quality education.Very often,...
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A school project is a contractual process through which stakeholders agree to put their educational plans into formal terms in a «school contract that sets forth the school's goals, determines its requirements and the resources needed, and sets...
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Direct assistance to schools is a mechanism in which lump-sum subsidies are granted to all public schools on the basis of a financing formula based on the number of pupils enrolled and the number of classes per school. Once the education ministry...
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n the last decade, local, state and national parent associations (PAs) have become more involved in activities to promote education in Africa, with the growing recognition that PAs are important institutional partners in efforts to support EFA and...
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