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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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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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At the time of Independence, in 1975, Mozambique had a very high illiteracy rate of about 93%, there was a lack of qualified personnel and particularly teachers, health care personnel and other specialized people. The country launched massive...
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2008
This report, produced with the help of Madagascar's national education team in 2006-07, is designed to contribute to ongoing education reform discussions. It analyzes the constraints to system expansion and presents possible next steps for an...
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2008
Since the sub-Saharan African countries anticipate a substantial increasein the numbers of youths completing primary education, they will haveto define strategies for meeting this challenge, while at the same time, highrates of unemployment are...
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2008
The purpose of this book is to explore how access to secondary schooling can be increased in sub-Saharan Africa. Many countries have embarked on ambitious plans to universalize access to lower secondary schooling and increase participation at upper...
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2008
The Gambia has been providing nine years of uninterrupted education, exclusive of the pre-school years. A major challenge posed by these shifts has been to diffuse and reconcile, in a sustained manner, the tensions between expanding access to all...
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2008
the policies and strategies adopted by Zimbabwe immediately after independence in 1980 showed huge successes in terms of transforming the elitist system which only catered for 4% of black students into a mass education system which catered for some...
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The post-independence years were marked by the launching of a series of educational reforms designed to instate national sovereignty, correct what had been perceived as defects in the colonial system of education and take up the new challenges which...
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2008
The Minister of Education and Culture presented policy options that have been made in Mozambique in order to develop post-primary education. These options are based on the vision of a holistic and inclusive education with priority given to the...
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