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A Papua New Guinean innovation attempts to broaden the basis of secondary schooling to include practical community-oriented work, whilst avoiding the dangers identified in Foster's ‘vocational school fallacy’ thesis. The evidence suggests that tensions between the vocational/community dimensions of the project and the academic were increasingly resolved in favour of the latter. This arose from the difficulties of implementing new assessment techniques, together with pressures to maintain...
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(1987). School Effectiveness Research in Papua New Guinea. Comparative Education: Vol. 23, No. 2, pp. 209-223.
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Summary. A new teaching programme for fourth-year medical students in child health in Harare, Zimbabwe is outlined. A 2-week attachment to a rural district-level hospital is intended to orient the students to primary health care and to the practice of clinical medicine in a low resource environment. The attachment has become popular with students and it is hoped that it will improve attitudes of teaching staff in the medical school towards primary health care.
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Egypt is a poor society seeking ways to develop to give a better standard of life to its growing population. Since the 1952 revolution it has become something of an axiom that the country must develop its human resources to the full if development itself is to be a possibility. For this reason education is seen as playing a vital role in the future development of the society as well as being a basic human right. Its role is conceived of both in terms of the training of human resources and of...
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The state of scientific and technological research and of their development in Egypt must be seen against the pattern of the country’s modernisation and of its system of higher education and training. In an earlier chapter the modernisation plans of Muhammad Ali were discussed. Egypt’s reorientation away from Ottoman politics towards those of Europe stems from this period.
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Abstract Papua New Guinea has a serious shortfall in national scientific manpower in part due to low numbers in tertiary science courses and high attrition rates in these courses. The possibility that a contributory factor to these failures may be ineffective study was investigated by administering the Study Process Questionnaire to students in the first year undergraduate science course at the University of Papua New Guinea. Scores for both study motives and strategies were higher than...
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From 1981 to 1983, the writer was resident in the Republic of Niger, and worked with the Niamey Department of Development Project. This regional project was funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and operated under the auspices of the Niger Ministry of Rural Development. The goal of this large, integrated, rural development project was to educate rural villagers in numerous areas through a network of rural training centers. Although the transfer of...
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A large amount of resources are spent each year on management training for Sub‐Saharan Africa. For example, in fiscal years 1984 and 1985, the World Bank alone committed an average of US$25 million per year for management training. The overall figure, combining all countries and donors, would be much higher. Worldwide, the Bank committed US$240 million for all types of training in 1985. These funds are used for fellowships, hardware, local training, study tours and expatriate experts....