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Educational investment is an engine of economic development in Eritrea and thus financing education is like a blood to human body; while this is widely accepted, little empirical research has been conducted on the topic. This paper analyses patterns of educational finances in secondary education in Eritrea particularly in the zoba –Maekel. It presents data on selected secondary schools in zoba and other related data tables with the results observed. It also provides the pattern of financing...
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A Project Report by Rono Kimutai, Submitted to the School of Business, USIU-A in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirement for the Degree of Master in Business Administration
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While youth issues are subject of growing attention in the Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) region, data for indicators relating specifically to youth employment remain scarce in most SSA countries. There is therefore limited empirical basis for formulating policies and programmes promoting youth employment and successful school to work transitions. The study is aimed at beginning to fill this gap by generating and analyzing a set of youth education and employment indicators based on World Bank...
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The title deliberately presents a series of apparent trade-offs since they capture some of the policy complexity facing countries such as Kenya which aspire to use education and training strategically to assist in their national development strategies. This complexity is increased when national policy priorities are increasingly entangled with and influenced by those of particular development partners in Kenya, as well as by the changing consensus at the level of what can be termed the...
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This study addressed how four variables used to operationalize learning and sense of community differed between African American and Caucasian students enrolled in an online graduate course. Participants (N = 97) from two sections of the course were sampled. African American students were in the minority in the mixed African American and Caucasian section, while the other section consisted of only African Americans. The results revealed that on the four outcomes measured by the study, the...
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This paper reports on the experiences from an English medium school (EMS) in Tanzania. It places Tanzanian EMSs in the larger context of bilingual education practices and examines the similarities and differences with immersion programmes in other parts of the world. The triglossic community background of these schools is noted, showing that even though the simultaneous acquisition of two or more languages is a theoretical possibility, the conditions for its realization in Tanzanian...
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This article provides a brief examination of the attempts to access basic to all the citizenry in independent Kenya. Universal Primary Education (UPE) has been a long term preoccupation for successive governments which have often made public pronouncements on education that have resulted in massive enrolments. These enrolments have however not been sustained. The article addresses some reasons why previous UPE drives failed and argues that more attention needs to be paid to critical issues...
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In 1983, the Government of Senegal formulated a literacy policy and a five-year action plan intended to reduce the illiteracy rate by 5 per cent per year by redressing the disparities between sexes, ages and urban and rural areas, improving the quality of supply and promoting a literate environment to sustain and develop knowledge once it had been acquired.