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  Adolescent girls literacy initiative for reproductive health (A GIFT for RH)

  Centre for Development and Population Activities, 2003

  This paper reports on a study that examines the impact of a health-focused literacy class in Nepal that combines reproductive health knowledge along with literacy training.
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  Public-Private Partnerships: a new paradigm for sustainable development in education

  World Bank, 2003

  This paper assesses the comparative advantages of three models for Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) in secondary education:Model 1: a private sector firm adopts a school or schoolsModel 2: the private sector firm provides a specific product to a school or the entire systemModel 3: the private sector firm actually operates public schoolsAdvantages of PPPs:business
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  The next steps: experiences and analysis of how to eradicate child labour

  Institute for Applied International Studies, Norway, 2002

  The focus of this anthology is the underlying causes and the long-term solutions to fighting child labour. The mix of analysis from field experiences and theoretical analysis is intended to show how, from both perspectives, consensus is emerging towards a wider development agenda in order to eliminate child labour.
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  Does privatization improve education? The case of Chile's national voucher plan

  School of Education, Stanford University, 2000

  This paper examines the push to expand public funding for private education in the form of vouchers or charter schools.
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  Key issues arising from secondary education reforms in Africa over the past decade

  World Bank in Africa, 2003

  This paper examines the major trends and underlying philosophies of reform efforts directed at re-inventing secondary education in sub-Saharan Africa. It considers their major focus, and more particularly the wider educational development issues raised by the reform efforts.
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  Globalisation and skills for development in Rwanda and Tanzania

  Department for International Development, UK, 2003

  This report is based on a study whose overall aim was to create a context-relevant knowledge base of the implications for education and training policy of globalisation in two low-income sub-Saharan African countries, namely, Rwanda and TanzaniaThe report presents a typology of skills identified in each country as being relevant to their country contexts and development needs.
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  Reaching underserved populations with basic education in deprived areas of Ghana: emerging best practices: section 2: alternative education program profiles

  CARE International, 2003

  As part of the international literature review and national field research, this paper identifies, researches and analyses, the critical component of alternative education programs.Within the paper, the international and national alternative education profiles are grouped (nationally or global) and their environmental context identified (to provide a setting for the programmatic initiatives), p
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  ICT trends in teacher training curricula: an Asia-Pacific perspective

  Asia and the Pacific Programme of Educational Innovation for Development, 2001

  This paper examines a number of ICT trends in education, educational technology and teacher training curricula. Trends in the western world, where there are more pioneering efforts in technology, are cited before focusing on developments in the Asia Pacific region.
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  Reaching underserved populations with basic education in deprived areas of Ghana: emerging good practices. Section 1

  CARE International, 2003

  This paper reports on a study which aims to discover what types of complimentary education services have been effective in reaching the under-served in Ghana, especially female, populations in rural deprived areas, and, what complimentary education mechanisms/processes have been the most successful and why?Findings:the Northern regions of Ghana suffer from an acute shortage of teachers
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  The social functions of the university in the context of the changing state/market relations

  Institute of Philosophy, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland, 2002

  As state/market relations get changed with the advent of globalization, where does that leave universities, traditionally an important part of the public sector?

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