- Does practice make perfect? Teacher training in Trinidad and Tobago
- June George; Patricia Worrell; Jocelyn Rampersad; Balchan Rampaul; Jeniffer Mohammed / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
- How appropriate is the curriculum in teacher training courses in Trinidad and Tobago? Can the experience of teaching practice be improved? A two-part study by the University of the West Indies investigates how primary school teachers ...
- Finding the teachers of the future: Lessons from the Caribbean.
- June George; Janice Fournillier; Marie-Louise Brown / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
- How can developing countries identify potential teachers? Can they be trained and inducted into teaching within a working school environment? How do teachers trained on-the-job fit into education systems predominantly staffed by colle...
- Challenging masculine stereotypes: focus on Brazil
- Gary Barker; Marcos Nascimento / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
- Much research and thinking on adolescent boys focuses on the negative aspects of their behaviour such as violence, delinquency, callous attitudes towards young women and unsafe practices. What can we learn from research on the differe...
- Teacher Education in Malawi: matching supply and demand
- Demis Kunje; Joseph Chimombo; Keith Lewin / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
- When the Malawian government introduced a policy of free primary education in 1994, school enrolments soared from 1.9 million to about 3 million. This massive surge has placed severe constraints on the financing of the primary school ...
- Tackling adult illiteracy: encouraging news from Uganda
- Anthony Okech; Roy A. Carr-Hill; Anne R. Katahoire; Teresa Kakooza; Alice N. Ndidde; John Oxenham / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
- As the number of adult literacy programmes grows, is there evidence that they work? How can we evaluate whether those who have passed through adult education schemes have achieved basic literacy? Should donors do more to fund adult li...
- Push-outs or drop-outs? Can Indian primary education become inclusive?
- Sarada Balagopalan; Ramya Subrahmanian / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
- Change is coming to India’s schools. For the first time large numbers of dalit (low-caste) and adivasi (tribal) children are enrolled in primary schools. Is India doing enough to encourage them to stay and to progress?
- Experiments in teacher training: improving primary science education in Fiji
- Neil Taylor; Keith B Lucas / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
- The value of quality science education to developing countries is widely accepted and has prompted an investment in school science education. But concerns about instructional quality and student achievement are becoming acute. Why is ...
- Reading between the lines: why literacy for women?
- Anna Robinson-Pant / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
- Can we be sure that literacy really promotes ‘development’? Is literacy a universal skill that can be delivered by all aid workers? What kinds of skills should literacy programmes for women emphasise? Why do women often drop...
- Emergency tactics: education in crisis situations
- Kacem Bensalah; Margaret Sinclair; Fatma Hadj Nacer / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
- Natural and man-made disasters cause severe damage to education systems. Could they also provide an opportunity to reshape teaching for the better? In the aftermath of complex humanitarian emergencies, can initiatives in peace educati...
- Transforming teacher education in small states: lessons from Belize
- Cynthia Thompson; Michael Crossley / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
- What strategies are most effective for small states reforming their teacher-training systems? Can distance learning play a part? A report by the University of Bristol and Belize Teachers’ Training College (BTTC) examines an initi...
- Exploring the implications of gender-focused research for health and health care
- Women's Health and Development Programme, WHO, 1998
- Studies on health differences between men and women tend to emphasise biological factors as determinant. Instead, this technical paper, written by the Gender and Women’s Health Department at the World Health Organisation (WHO), e...
- Do budgets really matter?: evidence from public spending on education and health in Uganda
- E. Ablo; R. Reinikka / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1998
- Surveys can provide a useful reality check where institutions are weak. Certainly, budgets and official statistics are inadequate as a guide for policymakers. Ablo and Reinikka demonstrate that budget allocations alone can be misleadi...
- Reflect: Evaluating a New Approach to Adult Literacy
- ActionAid International, 1997
- In October 1993 ACTIONAID, (a British based international NGO working in 20 countries) began a two year action research project to explore possible uses of Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) techniques within adult literacy programme...
- Women's Voices, Women's Lives: The Impact Of Family Planning, A Synthesis of Findings from the Women's Studies Project
- Family Health International, 1998
- The studies examined how women's family planning experiences -- their contraceptive use and non-use, their pregnancies and childbearing, and their experiences with family planning and reproductive health programs -- affected other asp...
- A Reversal of Fortune for Korean Women: Explaining 1983's Upward Turn in Relative Earnings
- Yana van der Meulen Rodgers / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999
- Relative earnings for Korean women across education groups dropped substantially between 1971 and 1983. The pronounced recovery after 1983 is largely explained by a strong compression in market returns to skills. Between 1971 and 1983...
- League table of women at top levels of government
- The Progress of Nations Report, UNICEF, 1999
- Women make up only 7% of ministerial positions, globally. Even within this small percentage, they remain heavily concentrated in the areas of social affairs, including education, health and family. The total number of women ministers ...
- Income distribution and social expenditure in Brazil
- Benedict J Clements / International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997
- This paper examines trends in income distribution in Brazil and the determinants of income inequality, including social expenditure. The distribution of income in Brazil is among the most unequal in the world and also highly skewed re...
- Sexual Health Exchange
- Royal Tropical Institute, 1999
- The Sexual Health Exchange is a quarterly, 16-page journal on HIV prevention programming in the wider context of sexual and reproductive health. It is produced by the Royal Tropical Institute (KIT) in collaboration with SAfAIDS (South...
- IGI Global
- IGI Global is an international academic publisher of more than 2,000+ reference books, 150+ journals, encyclopedias, teaching cases, proceedings, and databases covering the utilisation and management of information science and technology, as it is applied to the areas of: education, social science, library science, healthcare, business, public administration, computer science, and engineering....
- International Journal of Information and Education Technology (IJIET)
- International Journal of Information and Education Technology (IJIET) is an international academic journal which gains a foothold in Singapore, Asia and opens to the world. It aims to promote the integration of information and education technology. The focus is to publish papers on state-of-the-art Information and Education Technology. Submitted papers will be reviewed by technical committees of t...
- Thai Society of Higher Education Institutes on the Environment (TSHE)
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- Health and Education Advice and Resource Team (HEART)
- HEART is a consortium of leading organisations in international development, health, nutrition and education. It works together to support the use of evidence and expert advice in policymaking. HEART helps time-pressured decision-makers better understand, interpret and apply health, nutrition and education evidence. It is primarily designed to provide the most relevant evidence to address pa...
- UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education (UNESCO-IHE)
- UNESCO-IHE is an international institute for water education.
- Centre for Development Finance (CDF)
- The Centre for Development Finance focuses on improving the delivery of public goods that contribute to inclusive social and economic opportunity in India.
- Centre for International Education, University of Sussex (CIE)
- The Centre for International Education (CIE) provides a focal point for work on education and development in low-income countries.
- The Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA)
- The Finnish Institute of International Affairs is a research institute that produces high quality, topical information on international relations and the EU.
- London School of Economics (LSE)
- The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) is a social science universities.
- ephemera
- ephemera is an independent journal, supported by the School of Business and Management, Queen Mary, University of London.
