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This is a thesis regarding a local event that occurred in Babati district in North-Eastern Tanzania during the autumn of 2009. In the district the period between June-November is normally a dry per ...
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Exclusion from Education a Matter Beyond School : A study of girls’ experiences of exclusion from education in Uganda
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This paper outlines the ways in which the quality assurance system developed by the Higher Education Quality Committee (HEQC) of the Council on Higher Education conceptualizes and takes into account issues of equity in South African higher education. The paper takes as its point of departure the historical roots of equity in South African higher education. It points out the challenges that the legacy of apartheid poses to the achievement of equity of outcomes in higher education and the ways...
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This article addresses the historical contributions of African students to higher education in the United States from 1925-1959. During this period, African students in the United States actively pursued, what Nnamdi Azikiwe, the great African nationalist and former student himself termed, the “golden fleece.” It represented the promise of American higher education as a panacea to African ills, particularly colonialism. The tendency has been to view African studentship in the United States...
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The impact of specific actions designed to streamline and tighten the workflow processes of key actors in Madagascar's primary education sector are evaluated. To inform the strategy for scaling up, a randomized experiment was carried out over two school years. The results show that interventions at the school level, reinforced by interventions at the subdistrict and district levels, succeeded in changing the behavior of the actors toward better management of key pedagogical functions. In...
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Background The primary objective of this study was to determine the prevalence of neurocognitive impairment among HIV‐positive individuals in Botswana, using the International HIV Dementia Scale (IHDS). We also compared performance on the IHDS with performance on tests of verbal learning/memory and processing speed, and investigated the association between performance on the IHDS and such variables as depression, age, level of education and CD4 count. Methods We conducted a cross‐sectional...
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Political scientists have repeatedly demonstrated that several states on the African continent fall into the category of failed, quasi, or weak states. Though these distinctions are useful, for the most part they neglect to acknowledge how and by whom governance functions, such as the provision of public goods, are being carried out in the context of state weakness. Increasingly the provision of such goods has become the work of non-state actors, such as religious, international, and rebel...
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Vocational education and training (VET) was introduced into the secondary school curriculum in many developed countries because of its economic and social benefits. Papua New Guinea (PNG), a developing nation, appeared to overlook VET as an important tool for economic and social development since independence in 1975. Its secondary schools have provided only an academic pathway for the top quarter of its students. Thousands of secondary school students become school leavers at Grade 10 and...
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In this chapter I focus on a group of Jewish Ethiopian youth at the Alon boarding school who were offered a theatre project as one of their recreational activities. In this case study my intention is to consider the politics of the boarding school as one of the settings of community-based theatre in Israel, and to investigate the extent to which a specific group of young black immigrants managed to make do with theatre for their own needs in such a location. The chapter opens with an...