ADEA Biennale, 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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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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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 paper consists of four parts. The first one provides a tentative conceptual framework for reflecting and debating current realities of post-primary education on the ground, and a range of reference points that may assist in looking towards the...
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2008
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 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
Higher education plays a critical role in preparing the knowledge workers and competent leadership that Africa needs for sustainable development. The effectiveness with which higher education fulfils this role is influenced by the preparedness of...
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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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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