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Interest in educational reform has grown in recent years as it has become apparent that improvements in public education have not been achieved at a sufficient rate. Yet, as Finn (1987) concludes, mandated reforms seldom produce results (p. 65). Moreover, public education increasingly is viewed as bureaucratic, monopolistic, and unresponsive; thus it has been declared that the quality of public education in this country can only be enhanced through competition, i.e., choice (Cole, 1989;...
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This paper examines the higher education sector in sub - Saharan African countries. It begins by describing the growth and structure of the sector, the amount of resources used and the original rationale for its development. This is followed by an analysis of the labor markets faced by higher education graduates using a wide range of data including rates of return, wage structures and trends, recorded vacancies, levels of expatriate employment and government employment policies. From these,...
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This paper argues that environmental education programmes (EEPs) in the south are based on northern-inspired ‘accommodative’ environmentalism which aims to maintain the status quo. This ‘first thinking’ characterised the decision-making processes behind Ethiopia's EEP, giving rise to three paradoxes. First, there is a contradiction between the centralisation of programme planning and the need for environmental education to be location-specific. Second, there is conflict between the goal of...
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Laser ranging to geodetic artificial satellites is now a proven technique for centimetre accuracy level determination of three-dimensional geodetic coordinates of widely spaced network points. Repeated determinations of the network point coordinates enable the determination of spatial crustal movements as a tool for geodynamics and earthquake research. The Mediterranean forms the boundary zone where the African, Arabian and Eurasian tectonic plates are said to be causing deformation due to...
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A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of master of education of Kenyatta University.
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The study derives from a belief, based on many researchers' writings, that wide and frequent book-reading aids the development of knowledge, emotional maturity and human sympathy, which are all essential attributes in a fragmented culture such as South Africa's. It is not accepted that conventional secondary-school literature-teaching in this country promotes a lifelong reading habit among the majority of pupils and a plea is made for the recognition of Reading as a curricular entity in its...
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Garrett T, Wood N and Branthwaite A. Attitudes to the training of general medical practitioners in Nigeria. Family Practice 1990; 7: 14–19. Nigeria has pioneered a vocational training programme for general medical practitioners. The first major evaluation and review of the curriculum took place in July 1988 when over 50 trainees, supervisors and faculty board members attended a conference at Ibadan University. The opportunity was taken to assess by questionnaire the views of the participants...
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This article will provide a practical, legislative view of the development of the Wisconsin Parental Choice Plan mandated for the city of Milwaukee. Our intent here is to place this initiative within the context of the pressing educational needs of African American children. During the past three years, the debate around choice has been both encouraging and troubling: encouraging because African American parents have demanded greater participation in the educational decisions governing their...
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The author makes the case for the development of adequate antenatal delivery care and family planning programs in order to reduce levels of maternal mortality using the example of Ghana. (ANNOTATION)
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This paper compares graduates of the formal vocational and technical education (VTE) system in Côte d'Ivoire with those of informal apprenticeships, in terms of access to jobs, earnings, and the internal rate of return to investment in education. The structure of the labor market is explicitly considered in the analysis and the selection process into each segment is modelled. It is found that formal and informal VTE are not substitutes but prepare people for different careers. Within the...
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This is a two-part study dealing with the curriculum, school leaving examinations and History as a school subject in England and South Africa. Part One is a developmental study. Developments in the curriculum of both countries since the Second World War are traced. In England this period is characterised by a shift from a somewhat laissez faire approach of the authorities at Whitehall to the curriculum of individual schools to the prescription that seems inherent in the National Curriculum....