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Uganda is one of the few African countries with a functional national assessment system. Established in 2003, the National Assessment of Progress in Education (NAPE) Program is executed by the Uganda National Examination Board (UNEB). The program uses a learning outcomes measurement framework to annually measure achievement in literacy and numeracy proficiency on the basis of a cross-sectional, nationally representative sample of learners from the primary three (P3) and primary six (P6)...
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Uganda is one of the few African countries with a functional national assessment system. Established in 2003, the National Assessment of Progress in Education (NAPE) Program is executed by the Uganda National Examination Board (UNEB). The program uses a learning outcomes measurement framework to annually measure achievement in literacy and numeracy proficiency on the basis of a cross-sectional, nationally representative sample of learners from the primary three (P3) and primary six (P6)...
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Egypt is one of the most vulnerable countries to climate change due to the expected detrimental impacts on coastal zones, agriculture, water security as well as indirect social and health impacts.Egypt is responsible for 0.57% of the global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.Although Egypt is a non-annex I country not requiring any specific emission reduction or limitation targets under the Kyoto protocol, its National plans have included mitigation measures to reduce its greenhouse gases.The...
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Thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Information Technology at the Polytechnic of Namibia
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This study draws on the concepts of instrumental and expressive orders to analyse school practice in two Anglophone and two Francophone primary schools in Cameroon, and how micro processes of language socialisation in the schools studied instantiated Anglophone and Francophone education traditions and related to macro processes of systems of education. Using a multimodal method of data collection, including participant observation, focus group and individual interviews, the study adopts a...
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This paper investigates the impact of social transfer programmes on school enrollment and child labour in Malawi utilizing a micro-simulation evaluation method. Four hypothetical cash transfer programmes, differentiated in terms of their conditions on children´s enrollment and gender, are considered. Results show that boys´ enrollment increases in all four scenarios, whereas girls´ enrollment increases only when the conditionality on enrollment is enforced.
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This paper investigates the impact of social transfer programmes on school enrollment and child labour in Malawi utilizing a micro-simulation evaluation method. Four hypothetical cash transfer programmes, differentiated in terms of their conditions on children´s enrollment and gender, are considered. Results show that boys´ enrollment increases in all four scenarios, whereas girls´ enrollment increases only when the conditionality on enrollment is enforced.
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This study, informed by the academic literacies approach, was part of a broader study that sought to establish students’ perceptions of the efficacy of the English language interventions at a university using a case methodology. A sample of 142 students responded to a structured questionnaire on English Language Literacy Support Programmes for Students offered by the University’s Writing Centre. The non-probability sampling method was used in selecting the students. Data were also collected...
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This paper reports on part of the findings of a study on care and support for sexually abused teenagers with intellectual disability in Gauteng Province, South Africa. The focus is particularly on influences of under reporting of sexual abuse of teenagers with intellectual disability by carers, teachers and social workers. Data were collected from 32 participants purposefully recruited from two special schools located in a peri-urban South African city setting. These included 18 teachers, 6...
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This paper reports on an instrumental case study that employed narrative and teacher change methodological and analyticalframeworks to investigate Kenyan science teachers’ views of the effect of student learning on their teaching. Interpretation of theteachers’ views revealed that they: 1) gained an increased awareness and understanding of their students’ science learning abilitiesthat allowed them to take increased responsibility for own learning, 2) developed and accepted new understanding...
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Augmenting a Mincerian earnings function with governorate level data, this paper estimated the external return to higher education for individuals in Egypt in 2010. The results suggested that these externalities are negative and exist only for female workers, while for males these externalities were again negative but statistically insignificant. A unit increase in governorate average higher education is associated with a 68% decrease in females’ hourly wage. This could be explained by the...
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The study investigated Public–Private Partnership in supporting orphans in primary education in Dar es Salaam Region, Tanzania. It identified strategies used by public–private partners in supporting orphan pupils in primary education. It examined how well the public-private partnership work in supporting orphans pupils in primary education and lastly it identified the modality for Public-Private Partnership to develop more effective ways for supporting orphan pupils in primary education....