South Africa and Education
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- The BLDS education collection
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- Impacts of teacher migration
- A. Sives; W.J. Morgan; S. Appleton / Centre for Comparative Education Research, University of Nottingham, 2004
- This paper highlights the importance of the role of teachers in developing countries not only as educational leaders, but also in recognising their contribution to wider community and national development. The paper argues that the mi...
- Examining the current state of school infrastructure in the light of the South African constitution
- R.A. Wildeman / Education Rights Project, South Africa, 2002
- This paper isolates poor infrastructure provisioning as a key problem for the delivery of effective education in South Africa. It summarises the legislative and policy context governing the provisioning of school infrastructure; revie...
- ICTs for teacher training, Egypt and South Africa
- J. Leach / Digital Education Enhancement Project, Open University, 2004
- This document provides the results of research which aimed to investigate how information and communications technologies (ICT), effectively used, could significantly improve the teaching and learning of literacy, numeracy and science...
- Obstacles to obtaining primary education on commercial farms in South Africa
- Human Rights Watch, 2004
- This document argues that the South African government is failing to protect the right to a primary education for children living on commercial farms by neither ensuring their access to farm schools nor maintaining the adequacy of lea...
- Exposure to life skills education leads to increased condom use among South African youth
- Population Council, USA, 2004
- This article, published in 'Horizons' by the Population Council, looks at the impact of a life skills programme in South Africa, which aimed to help youth protect themselves against HIV infection and safeguard their reproductive healt...
- Review of education programmes in the Safe Passages to Adulthood programme
- I. Warwick; P. Aggleton / Centre for Sexual Health Research, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Southampton, 2002
- This document outlines discussions from the Expert meeting for the Safe Passages to Adulthood programme, where researchers, practitioners and policy makers explored the potential of education to protect against HIV/AIDS, as well as th...
- ICTs for non-formal education in Africa
- D. Wagner; B. Day; J.S. Sun / Imfundo, 2004
- Examines the ways in which ICTs can improve the skills of Africa’s young people and adults who do not have basic literacy skills and/or have not completed primary or secondary school. The report looks at: mo...
- How to measure, and identify key factors in, advancing gender equity in Africa, tested against case studies
- E. Unterhalter; E. Kioko-Echessa; R. Pattman; R. Rajagopalan; F. N’Jai / Institute of Education, University of London, 2004
- This paper presents a suggested methodology for developing a scorecard on girls' access to and retention in formal primary schooling in Commonwealth countries in Africa. While acknowledging the limitations of scorecards in capturing t...
- Do cash transfers make significant conributions to eradicating child poverty?
- A. Barrientos; J. DeJong / Childhood Poverty Research and Policy Centre, 2004
- This paper addresses the effectiveness of cash transfers in addressing childhood poverty in developing and transition economies. It argues that the provision of cash transfers and basic services to the poor are complementary activitie...
- How do gender constructions influence adolescent approaches to risk-related sexual behaviour?
- D. A. van Dijk / Centre for International Development Issues, University of Nijmegen, 2002
- This paper from the Centre for International Development Issues presents the results of research conducted among young people in South Africa, aiming to gain a better understanding of the sexual context of adolescents in the country. ...
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