ADEA Biennale, 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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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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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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This paper reviews the experiences with PPP around the world, discusses the challenges faced by countries in SSA and identifies promising practices that countries may wish to consider as they design polices to accelerate the expansion of access to...
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The study shows a public and private partnership (PPP) model which has been the successful in the development of secondary education in Mauritius. The private education sector has contributed significantly to the high literacy rate in Mauritius When...
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In the last decade, Uganda has implemented comprehensive reforms in Post Primary Education and Training system in general and the Business Technical and Vocational Education and Training (BTVET) sub-sector in particular. Findings show that the...
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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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Public-private partnerships (PPPs) are one of the keys to development and post-primary educational policies and the implementation of reforms. This is a particularly important aspect as far as drawing up post-primary reforms is concerned. In several...
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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