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Abstract The question of how to make higher education more inclusive has been a central concern in South Africa and elsewhere over the past two decades. However, in South Africa there remains a disjuncture between policy aimed at promoting inclusivity and the experiences of students and staff in the higher education sector. In this article, the relationship between equity of access and equity of outcomes and the expectations that follow from these policy imperatives are examined from the...
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This study examines an important dimension of the global challenge to achieve Education for All: the professional lives of female teachers in rural communities in Sub Saharan Africa. Teachers from five countries (Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa and Sudan) provide a focus for exploring the relationship between official representations of teachers' work and the professional lives teachers create and experience. The official perspective is drawn from an analysis of documentary evidence...
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Matching grants are one of the most common policy instruments used by developing country governments to try to foster technological upgrading, innovation, exports, use of business development services and other activities leading to firm growth. However, since they involve subsidizing firms, the risk is that they could crowd out private investment, subsidizing activities that firms were planning to undertake anyway, or lead to pure private gains, rather than generating the public gains that...
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The study sought to investigate the factors that militate against the provision of quality education at Grade Seven level in Gokwe South Central Cluster of Zimbabwe. The study adopted a qualitative interpretive research methodology. A purposive convenient sample of twenty school teachers and five school heads from Gokwe South Central Cluster formed the study. Data was collected through questionnaires and face-to-face interviews. The study began the process of data analysis by transcribing...
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This study sought ways of enhancing computer application skills among post graduate students at Masters level. It was motivated by three factors which were the observation that adult students faced challenges with computer applications traced to their formal education curriculum which did not include computers contrary to their employment demands for proficiency in computer applications, the need to contribute to limited literature on andragogy rather than pedagogy for Masters students in...
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Unemployment or the search for paid employment in Nigeria has become endemic. This is support by theclaims that Nigerian education system is bookish and academic oriented and lacked vocational andentrepreneurial values. Hence, the need to refocus education towards programmes that will inculcateknowledge and skills that prepare citizens for employment and self-reliance, economic diversification andsustainable development. The paper examines the business education programme and...
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Introduction and Background One of the many challenges facing educators in Zimbabwe and the world over is the decision on how to allocate students to classrooms, subjects and groups, since pupils differ in a number of aspects. Pupils throughout the world have acquired different interests, personality traits, knowledge, aptitudes, skills, attitudes and motivations. They also perceive and process information in very different ways. Aggarwal (2004) asserts that students in a class are different...
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Questo saggio prende in considerazione i retaggi della educazione dell’apartheid e le nuove direttive entrate in vigore dal 1994, innanzitutto problematizzando il concetto di retaggio dell’apartheid e poi esaminandolo all’interno del piu vasto contesto storico che vede l’emergere di un sistema di scolarizzazione di massa differenziato su base razziale, nelle particolari condizioni politiche ed economiche del Novecento. I principali retaggi che la nuova politica del periodo post-apartheid si...
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Abstract As of 2009 service learning has been integrated into the music programme at the Odeion School of Music, University of the Free State (South Africa), as a compulsory module for final-year students. In order to uphold academic and institutional standards, it was stipulated that the said module had to include mechanisms that would promote quality interaction and engagement activities within a framework that would ensure the implementation and coordination of meaningful, sustainable...
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The social model of disability, which provides the ideological basis for the recent UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, emphasizes the need for society to change, in order to remove all forms of disability discrimination and allow for full participation. However, literature debates have raised questions over the relevance of this ideology to the majority world context. This thesis aims to explore this dilemma, by examining the influence of the social model on a range of...
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Climate change is already having an impact on social, environmental and economic systems worldwide and will continue to pose significant challenges for human development over the decades to come. Communities that rely on natural resources for their livelihoods, especially in developing countries, are among those hardest hit. The international community is investing in planning and action to help countries adapt to climate change. The urgent question is how to channel funds towards the most...
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Voices of the silent majority: the transmission of Sunnī learning in Fāṭimī EgyptCortese, D. - 2012
In this paper I will share some preliminary remarks as to the extent to which Sunnī scholarship continued, was disseminated and possibly even prospered under a regime that upheld Shī‘a Ismā‘īlīsm as its official madhhab. The Fāṭimids offer us the chance to explore a rather unique phenomenon in medieval Islamic history: the ‘survival’ of the intellectual tradition of a Muslim religious majority that came to be under a Muslim religious minority rule for some 250 years. I will explore in...
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The aim and purpose of this paper is focusing on effective teaching and teaching practice perspective with a view to providing insight into its concept, dimensions, models, objectives, roles and suggest the way forward. Teaching is a complex activity. Its mastery requires systematic training. In Kenya, teacher education institutes have developed a teacher education component referred to as teaching practice which is used to provide pedagogical competence and professional experience to novice...