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This study exposes a comparative treatment of the private returns to education in Palestine and Turkey over the period 2004-2008. Comparable data, similar definitions and same methodology are used in the estimations. The estimates are provided first for average returns to education second for returns at different levels of schooling and finally for returns by different sectors of employment. The results suggest that returns to schooling are higher for Turkey at the various levels of...

This article reports on the knowledge, attitudes and perceptions relating to HIV/AIDS and condom use, and reported sexual behaviours among senior secondary school learners in Kumba, Cameroon. The goal of the study was to determine how at risk learners perceived themselves to be of contracting HIV/AIDS within the parameters set by the Health Belief Model (HBM). The objective of the article is to report on the components of the HBM with statistically significant explanatory associations with...

For many poor South African children, who are predominantly located in the historically disadvantaged part of the school system, the ongoing low quality of education acts as a poverty trap by precluding them from achieving the level of educational outcomes necessary to be competitive in the labour market. An important question is the extent to which this low quality of education is attributable to poverty itself as opposed to other features of teaching and management that characterise these...

School retention in South Africa and performance in the major school-leaving matric examination are characterised by significant inequalities on the basis of race and socio-economic status. In order to know at what point in the educational trajectory policy interventions and school improvement programmes will be most effective, it is necessary to trace the development of these educational inequalities to earlier phases of schooling and before. This paper reports on findings from a unique...

Contents Abdulkader Tayob, Inga Niehaus and Wolfram Weisse Introduction Inga Niehaus Emancipation or Disengagement? Muslim Minorities and their Islamic Schools in Britain, the Netherlands and South Africa Yusef Waghid Critical Islamic Pedagogy: Possibilities for Cultivating Democratic Citizenship and Cosmopolitanism in Muslim Schools Abdulkader Tayob Islamization for South African Muslim Independent Schools Aslam Fataar Identity, Religious Conversion and Spatial Mobility. The Case of Fuzile...

Le contexte de cette recherche est celui de l'integration pedagogique des TIC en education dans deux etablissements publics secondaire du Cameroun. Elle s'inscrit dans l'objectif de mieux comprendre le role du genre dans l'education et l'apprentissage avec les TIC au Cameroun. Deux categories d’indicateurs ont ete analyses : l’impact des TIC dans l’enseignement et l’apprentissage et sur le genre. Les statistiques descriptives et l'analyse des contenus nous ont permis d'obtenir les resultats...

Fieldwork was conducted in the active north crater of Oldoinyo Lengai volcano, Tanzania. Gases, aqueous fumarole condensates, and freshly erupted natrocarbonatite lavas were collected from several hornitoes associated with the same eruptive center and are considered to represent genetically related products of the same shallow magma chamber. Apparent trace-metal mineral-mineral partition coefficients were derived for the major carbonate phases, gregoryite and nyerereite, and several...

Basaltic lavas of Nyos volcano (Cameroon) mostly contain mantle peridotite xenoliths consisting of spinel-bearing lherzolites and harzburgites. Based on the trace-element patterns, especially rare earth element (REE) patterns, two groups of samples have been distinguished: group 1 samples are characterized by spoon-shaped REE patterns, and group 2 samples show light (L) REE–enriched patterns. Mineralogical characteristics together with major- and trace-element compositions point to a low...

NCLB seeks to level the playing eld by narrowing class and racial gaps in school performance by establishing common expectations. No Child Left Behind Act (2001) increases the standards of accountability for states and schools, thus requiring educational leaders to rethink current school strategies. Holding individual schools accountable for the academic achievement of traditionally under-served groups of children, such as low-income students, students with disabilities, and students of...

The national reform of vocational and technical school in South Africa is the extension and development on the basis of curriculum reform of year 2005,which has inherited the reform view taking outcomebased education as the core as well as given attention to the particular demand of professional school-running characteristics of technical schools,and it has two important aims:on one side,help the courses of technical schools adapt to the value and views of democracy,solidarity,equality and...

In order to ensure the quality of teacher education,South Africa has established the continuous integration of quality assurance system,which includes institutional audits,programme accreditation,teachers' qualification accreditation,and teacher's professional development.In response,South Africa has also found a number of teacher education quality assurance bodies such as Higher Education Quality Committee,South African Council of Educators,Sector Education and Training Authority and so...

In order to improve teachers' quality,South Africa government implements the system of teachers' qualification accreditation which ensure teacher education institution work effectively,and play a great role in the improvement of middle and primary school teachers' quality.Teachers' qualification accreditation in South Africa has a typical feature in the basis,standers,requirement and procedure of accreditation,qualification conversation etc…,and also it can provide beneficial international experience.

This paper addresses a range of critical problems involving higher education funding, curricula, staff recruitment, retention and development, and student affairs that the system of higher education in Ethiopia is facing. After discussing the fundamental contributions of higher education to technological innovations, better health, improved service delivery, labour productivity, pluralism, and democratic governance, the paper examines the current state of affairs of higher education in...

We describe the nature of recent (50 year) rainfall variability in the summer rainfall zone, South Africa, and how variability is recognised and responded to on the ground by farmers. Using daily rainfall data and self organising mapping (SOM) we identify 12 internally homogeneous rainfall regions displaying differing parameters of precipitation change. Three regions, characterised by changing onset and timing of rains, rainfall frequencies and intensities, in Limpopo, North West and KwaZulu...

This article aims to move beyond issues of access to schooling for girls to investigate the constructions of gender through a macro-level analysis of policy and micro-level analysis of practice at a secondary school in Tanzania. State-sanctioned school texts are examined, as well as classroom discourse and teachers’ understandings of gender, to show how both “gender as equity” and “gender as power relations” perspectives interact in schools. While there have been advances in the recognition...