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This paper uses exogenous variation in rainfall across districts in Uganda to estimate the causal effects of household income shocks on children's enrollment and academic performance conditional on gender. I find negative deviations in rainfall from the long-term mean to have negative and highly significant effects on female enrollment in primary schools and the effect grows stronger for older girls. I find no effect of rainfall variation on the enrollment of boys and young girls. Moreover,...

This article introduces new data from Mali, including surveys of 200 university students and 1,000 citizens and interviews with 30 educational professionals, to emphasise Malian perceptions of the post-democratic educational expansion. It complements interviews with data on passage rates and curriculum from the Ministry of Education. Despite marked increases in enrolment, Malian respondents describe three major concerns about the “educational crisis”: educational quality, private/public...

To evaluate mediational intervention for sensitizing caregivers (MISC). MISC biweekly caregiver training significantly enhanced child development compared with biweekly training on health and nutrition (active control) and to evaluate whether MISC training improved the emotional well-being of the caregivers compared with controls.Sixty of 120 rural Ugandan preschool child/caregiver dyads with HIV were assigned by randomized clusters to biweekly MISC training, alternating between home and...

In 2003 Kenya abolished user fees in all government primary schools. Analysis of household survey data shows this policy contributed to a shift in demand away from free schools, where net enrollment stagnated after 2003, toward fee-charging private schools, where both enrollment and fee levels grew rapidly after 2003. These shifts had mixed distributional consequences. Enrollment by poorer households increased, but segregation between socio-economic groups also increased. The shift in demand...

This paper discusses Environmental Education in Nigeria as a key to creating environmental consciousness / awareness in pupils/students from their early educational career. Insufficient educational information could lead to ignorance of some important issues pertaining to global and regional concerns. The rapid societal transition with its 'positive' and 'negative' effects is enough of a scenario for the stimulation of global re-orientation of education and reduction of apathy mostly in the...

The purpose of this paper is to provide a general overview of an initiative known as ICT for rural education development (ICT4RED), as part of the larger TECH4RED. With a specific focus on the research and teacher proffesional development components. The ICT4RED initiative is supporting rural teachers to integrate tablets in teaching mathematics and science in schools in Cofimvaba in the Nciba district of the Eastern Cape in South Africa. The teachers have to “learn to earn” the technology...

This article examines young Syrians' perceptions of higher education after the 2001 reforms, which expanded access to higher education and permitted the establishment of private universities. Data come from in-depth interviews conducted with 22 Syrians residing in Damascus, aged 18–32 in 2009. Analysis indicates youth are critical of the higher education system broadly, and that their discontent stems from two sources: (1) the high level of state involvement in determining youth life paths...

Historically the voices of young people have been excluded from research and debates about how to respond to environmental degradation and climate change. To include the perspectives of young people in the climate change and adaptation debate, we conducted a Photovoice and draw-and-write project with 29 school students in Ethiopia, through which students were given a platform to explore their social representations of the environment. Thematic analysis of our findings suggested that young...

This study explored the effectiveness of video as a tool to either complement or replace existing lecturedemonstration training for small farmer groups.The effectiveness of video in decreasing the knowledge gap among farmers who differ by gender was also evaluated.Quantitative and qualitative data were gathered through a quasi-experiment including a pretest and a posttest design with three experimental groups.Results showed that video could be an effective complement and replacement for the...

As part of the process of assessment of Masters Real Estate (MRE) curricula in South Africa, real estate professionals in the property industry were surveyed to rank topics included in the curricula in order of their importance. Results reveal that professionals consider Property Finance as the most important topic in the curriculum and Information Technology as the least important topic. Findings will guide universities offering MRE programmes in South Africa and elsewhere in the processes...

This paper reports on a study that investigated lived experiences of international post-graduate students from African countries in one School of a South African university. The researchers saw a knowledge gap regarding how much the institution ‘knew’ about these students’ experiences and sought to address the question: What can be learnt from these experiences regarding access to the institution? The study adopted a qualitative research approach involving two in-depth focus group interviews...

The Malawi Growth and Development Strategy 11, the blueprint that maps out the national development agenda from 2011 – 2016, recognises technical and vocational education and training (tevet) as a tool for propelling Malawi into a producing and exporting nation rather than the current predominantly consuming and importing one. However, the technical and education sector in Malawi is plagued by an acute shortage of well-trained instructors. Most instructors in technical colleges in Malawi do...

In higher education worldwide there has been a shift from quality control to quality assurance. Quality assurance in South Africa has been seen as an important element in the democratisation and transformation of education. The emphasis on quality assurance in education and training was seen as emancipatory because under apartheid the education which most of the population had access to was of very poor quality. The ‘quality’ discourse and quality assurance in higher education in South...

While it is largely agreed that online gaming business is on the growth path in South Africa, there is a dearth of researches related online gaming industry. In particular, it is not known to what extent or which online gaming constraints negatively affect consumer online gaming continuance intention. This study seeks to fill this void by attempting to make a rigorous empirical examination of the direct relationship between the six identified online gaming constraints (social, time,...