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Capacity building in any activity involves making available the critical mass of skilled manpower, the necessary equipment and an enabling infrastructure. In geospatial information production and management, advances in space and information technologies have impacted positively on critical capacity globally through availability of geospatial information technology (GIT) tools. To be fully utilized however, the acquisition of GIT must be fully complemented by readily available skilled...
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The prospects for educational development are excellent in Madagascar, in light of the increasingly favorable, policy environment for the sector. Public spending for education, relative to the gross domestic product declined in the 90s, coinciding with a five-fold rise in the country's interest payment for external debt. As the debt service burden began to ease in the late 90s, public spending on education began to recover, and can be expected to grow. A key challenge however, is to...
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The prospects for educational development are excellent in Madagascar, in light of the increasingly favorable, policy environment for the sector. Public spending for education, relative to the gross domestic product declined in the 90s, coinciding with a five-fold rise in the country's interest payment for external debt. As the debt service burden began to ease in the late 90s, public spending on education began to recover, and can be expected to grow. A key challenge however, is to...
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Inspired by the 1990 Jomtien World Conference on Education for All and by the experience of non-governmental organisations such as BRAC, Save the Children/USA established a community schools project in southern Mali, working with 777 villages to establish and run their own primary schools between 1992 and 1998. These schools enrolled over 45,000 pupils who would otherwise have had little chance of going to school. Nearly half of these pupils were girls. School Management Committees (SMCs),...
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What is the case for a renewed engagement with adult basic education in developing countries? In particular, with regard to Africa, what is the value of such education? What are the main issues? What advice should be offered about how best to develop it? In addressing these questions, the present paper summarises main points from a recent study [indexed at TD/IRD 88.292] which was conducted at the World Bank's Sub-Saharan Africa Regional Department The study is part of a wider effort since...
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Language is a crucial means of gaining access to important knowledge and skills and thus determines academic achievement. For this reason, language diversity has a powerful influence on the outcomes of schooling in a multicultural society. Attrition rates among linguistically diverse school populations worldwide show that learners with a limited proficiency in the language of learning are most at risk of underachievement. This article deals with theories of first and second language...
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This study was a survey that investigated how realistic is it to expect the use of computers in the teaching and learning of school mathematics at senior secondary level in Botswana. Data sample consisted of 43 subjects, of whom 35 were mathematics teachers from seven senior secondary schools in the southern part of the country, six participants were school head and two were principal education officers. While teachers completed a 30-item questionnaire, the other participants were...