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The paper addresses the lack of training and education as it is seen as South African entrepreneurs most severe barrier, especially for previously disadvantages individuals such as women. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to introduce and evaluate the Women Entrepreneurship Programme (WEP) as a training intervention. The WEP will be evaluated by measuring the skills transfer that took place and whether the participants’ business performances increased after the intervention. The sample...
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For Sub-Saharan Africa as a whole, but particularly for countries in the Sahel zone, full primary enrolment and completion at acceptable quality as codified in the Millennium Development Goals and the Education for All objectives still remains a major challenge. In order to enhance education supply, many of these countries have launched large scale teacher recruitment programs in recent years, whereby the teachers are no longer engaged in civil servant positions, but on the basis of...
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For Sub-Saharan Africa as a whole, but particularly for countries in the Sahel zone, full primary enrolment and completion at acceptable quality as codified in the Millennium Development Goals and the Education for All objectives still remains a major challenge. In order to enhance education supply, many of these countries have launched large scale teacher recruitment programs in recent years, whereby the teachers are no longer engaged in civil servant positions, but on the basis of...
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Modern Arabic Education in Mali: The madrasas and Corresponding Higher Arabic Education Dinie Bouwman Arabic.traditionaleducation.istaughtToIslamicaonmuchalargeeducation,largerscaleextent,inthecontemporaryArabiclegacyisoftaughttheMali,inmedievalaandmodernnotIslamiconlyArabicin traditionalIslamiceducation,thelegacyofthemedievalIslamic .education.Toamuchlargerextent,ArabicistaughtinamodernArabic schoolformcalledmadrasa,whichdevelopedundertheinfluenceofFrench...
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Significant relations among language impairments, academic difficulties, and behavioral problems have been well established in previous research, primarily with impaired children or non-minority samples. However, how and why these three developmental domains tend to co-vary has received only limited attention. Preliminary research suggests that academic deficiencies mediate the relation between language impairments and problem behavior. This study assessed 97 urban African American...
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The Rejection of Formal Education in the 5™ Region of Mali Anneke Breedveld Our Perspective Onethatschoolday,seemedlifeOusman,intoDjenne.1beourpartHe11of-year-oldparticularlythecurriculum.self-appointedelaboratedFreshfromonguide,theEurope,regulartolduswebeatingsaboutwere schoollifeinDjenne.1Heparticularlyelaboratedontheregularbeatings thatseemedtobepartofthecurriculum.FreshfromEurope,wewere stunned,andexpressedourdisagreementwithsuchpractices.Buttheladstoodup...
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Many of the goals of South Africa's new democracy depend on the production of professionals who have not only the knowledge and skills to make our country globally competitive, but also a commitment to working and living here. Despite numerous reforms, the South African health system, ten years into democracy, remains divided: first world private care that ranks with middle income countries internationally at the one end, and at the other extreme, in the rural public sector in particular,...
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Paper presented at the Social Sciences in an African Context Conference, Birchwood Conference Centre, Benoni, 27-29 September
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Since the introduction of German dual vocational training programmes to the Egyptian education system in the early 1990s, despite the high profile of tourism's role as one of Egypt’s most important economic sectors, the Egyptian-German Hotel School Paul Rahn in El Gouna is the only example of a dual vocational based school in the country’s hotel sector. Its mission has been defined as the provision of qualified staff for the hotel industry and providing career opportunities to young people,...
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Preface, Introduction, Part I: Establishing Education Policies for Sub-Saharan Africa: A Critique 1. Whose Education for All? 2. Education Policies for Sub-Saharan Africa as Viewed by the World Bank 3. The Formulation of Educational Policies and the Coordination of Aid - Some Examples Part II: African Culture and the Content of Schooling 4. A Renewed Curriculum Dependency? 5. Education for All - In Whose Language? 6. Language of Instruction in Tanzania and Namibia Part III: A Life After...
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The Farmer Field School (FFS) approach is gaining prominence as an extension approach but its usefulness in influencing farmers to understand and uptake new technologies is still a question lingering in the mind of many FFS practitioners. This study was conducted to determine the effectiveness of the approach in knowledge acquisition, adoption and dissemination of soil and crop management (S&CM) technologies among small-scale farmers in Kenya. Eight technologies were scaled-out using the...
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Abstract The Mali agricultural sector and the country's food security are potentially vulnerable to climate change. Policies may be able to mitigate some of the climate change vulnerability. This article investigates several policy changes that may reduce vulnerability, including climate-specific and other policies. The policy set includes migration of cropping patterns, development of high-temperature-resistant cultivars, reduction in soil productivity loss, cropland expansion, adoption of...