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This report focuses on the educational and vocational training measures and schemes which need to be set up to endow all youths with the knowledge and skills they require to facilitate their efficient transition to the labour market. The authors of...
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2008
This presentation summarizes insights gained during a two-week study tour for 30 senior education policymakers from Cameroon, Ethiopia, Ghana, Lesotho, Madagascar and Mozambique organized in June 2006 to Singapore and Vietnam, and of a two-week...
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2008
The theme of the World Development Report (WDR) 2007 is youth, aged 12 to 24. It focuses on decisions concerning the five phases with the biggest long-term impact on how human capital is kept safe, developed, and deployed. For each phase (continuing...
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2008
The 2008 EFA Global Monitoring Report marks the midterm point in the international commitment to provide a quality education to all by 2015. It assesses progress towards expanding early childhood learning programs, achieving free and universal...
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2008
The Dakar forum certainly changed the stakes for African educational systems.This can be seen from the institutional changes which have occurred and fromthe way the practices of States and those of the international community as a whole have evolved...
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2008
This paper by the ADEA Working Group on Distance Education and Open Learning emphasizes the importance of distance education in improving cost-effectiveness, access and quality in African education. However, political obstacles loom on the path to...
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2006
If EFA is to be achieved in 2015, all six-year-old children will have to be in school within three years. The Fast Track Initiative (FTI) aims to help tackle this challenge by: ""{SAUT}supporting any country that meets two conditions:...
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2006
After a brief review of the literature on the effectiveness of schools, the presentation focuses on the characteristics of effective schools in Africa. Citing Ward Heneveld's study based on experiences in Madagascar, Mozambique, Tanzania, and...
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2006
Over the last three or four decades, nearly all countries in sub-Saharan Africa have developed and implemented various forms of sector-specific activities to promote early childhood development (ECD). These activities have assisted a great many...
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2006
Although increased efforts and investments have been devoted to educational development in Africa since 1990, a large proportion of the poorest groups are still excluded from primary education owing to obstacles beyond the control of ministers of...
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2006
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