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This paper critically reflects on the lived meaning of out-of-field teaching for professional development. Out-of-field teaching is a commonly used term that refers to teachers who are assigned to teach subjects and year levels when they are not suitably qualified to do so. Out-of-field teaching is a transnational common practice with developing concerns in countries such as the United States, United Kingdom, Turkey, South Africa and Europe (Norway and Germany). Understanding the...
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South Africa under apartheid practiced a policy of Christian National Education, teaching children within a narrow framework of religion and values. Post-apartheid, the government has worked to balance equality and pluralism. Problems easily arise in the educational sphere when parents object to the content of required courses. The principle of reasonable accommodation provides guidance in such situations. The practice and implications of reasonable accommodation may be found in legal...
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In Nigeria the current prevalence of HIV is 4.1% with over 3.5 million infected and estimated 1.5 million in need of anti-retroviral treatment. Epidemiological and implementation studies are necessary for monitoring and evaluation of interventions. To define research areas which can be addressed by participants of the Nigeria Field Epidemiology and Training Programme (NFELTP) a workshop was held in April 2013 in Abuja, Nigeria. Priority research areas were identified using criteria lists for...
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Thesis submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree Master of Technology: Information Technology in the Faculty of Informatics and Design at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology
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The study assessed the Ghana School Feeding programme on the enrolment of beneficiary schools in the Tamale Metropolis of the Northern Region. The case study design was used particularly targeting teachers, caterers, head teachers and key actors in the four selected beneficiary schools. Questionnaires and interview guides were used. The key findings revealed that, there has been a significant increase in enrolment of beneficiary schools. Pupils are motivated to stay in school, and as a...
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In 2000 the Namibian Government introduced decentralisation reforms in education in the form of school clustering. This article analyses the role of local politics in the implementation process. The key role players are education inspectors, school principals and teachers. We found that these stakeholders have influenced the reform's limited outcomes by contesting and supporting it, by engaging in contested and consensual political relationships with one another, and through competition over...
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In 2000 the Namibian Government introduced decentralisation reforms in education in the form of school clustering. This article analyses the role of local politics in the implementation process. The key role players are education inspectors, school principals and teachers. We found that these stakeholders have influenced the reform's limited outcomes by contesting and supporting it, by engaging in contested and consensual political relationships with one another, and through competition over...
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Integrated Community Centre for Employable Skills (ICCES) is an agency under the Ministry of Employment and Social Welfare with policy objective of filling the gap in employment generation by developing the young human resources in line with the poverty alleviation goal of the government of Ghana. The purpose of the study was to find out how the ICCES training programmes are achieving their purpose of increasing access of young person’s to skills acquisition and empowerment for productive...
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Comment la laicite des lycees francais en Tunisie permet-elle, dans les murs de l’enceinte scolaire, de legitimer la verite religieuse ou areligieuse des lyceens tunisiens et binationaux ? Comment sert-elle la pluralite des pratiques religieuses des familles qui y scolarisent leurs enfants ? Au travers d’une analyse qualitative des choix scolaires motives par des strategies d’entre-soi social et religieux, l’article montre que ce systeme d’enseignement favorise, d’une part, l’autonomie...
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In recent decades, extreme rains and drought have struck urban regions in Africa like never before. Nevertheless, limited information is available on which to base development of early warning systems
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New and social media are gaining popularity as forms of communication which are popularising the concept of citizen journalism. A substantial number of researches have been conducted on the usage of new and social media for communication and self concept. However there has been a perceived dearth of studies on the communication use of these media by Journalism and Mass Communication students. Thus, the study was carried out to examine social media use among undergraduates and how it affects...
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This paper presents the findings from a program evaluation of an ICT in education project within the USAID-funded Girls Improved Learning Outcomes (GILO) program. The evaluation uses a framework of four dimensions of ICT sustainability to examine the appropriateness of the design and implementation of the project, which provided simple, relevant technology to 166 schools in Upper Egypt. Project implementation, as described in this article, was carried out with a view towards both rapid and...
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Vocational Education and Training (VET) policy in South Africa is based on a narrow set of assumptions regarding the identity of learners and the reasons that they are in public further education and training (FET) colleges.These assumptions reflect an international orthodoxy about the centrality of employability that is located within what Giddens (1994) has described as "productivism", a view that reduces life to the economic sphere.Through exploring the stories of a group of South African...
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The distance learning program School Management supports decision makers at the school and ministerial levels in the shaping of formal and informal learning processes at different levels in schools and curricula in Eritrea. This paper examines how the distance learning program is interconnected to educational system development. (DIPF/Orig.) Das Distance Learning Program School Management fur Eritrea unterstutzt die professionell Handelnden in den Schulen und die ministeriellen...