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Adolescent girls literacy initiative for reproductive health (A GIFT for RH)
Centre for Development and Population Activities, 2003This 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.DocumentPublic-Private Partnerships: a new paradigm for sustainable development in education
World Bank, 2003This 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:businessDocumentThe next steps: experiences and analysis of how to eradicate child labour
Institute for Applied International Studies, Norway, 2002The 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.DocumentDoes privatization improve education? The case of Chile's national voucher plan
School of Education, Stanford University, 2000This paper examines the push to expand public funding for private education in the form of vouchers or charter schools.DocumentKey issues arising from secondary education reforms in Africa over the past decade
World Bank in Africa, 2003This 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.DocumentGlobalisation and skills for development in Rwanda and Tanzania
Department for International Development, UK, 2003This 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.DocumentReaching underserved populations with basic education in deprived areas of Ghana: emerging best practices: section 2: alternative education program profiles
CARE International, 2003As 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), pDocumentICT trends in teacher training curricula: an Asia-Pacific perspective
Asia and the Pacific Programme of Educational Innovation for Development, 2001This 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.DocumentReaching underserved populations with basic education in deprived areas of Ghana: emerging good practices. Section 1
CARE International, 2003This 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 teachersDocumentThe social functions of the university in the context of the changing state/market relations
Institute of Philosophy, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland, 2002As state/market relations get changed with the advent of globalization, where does that leave universities, traditionally an important part of the public sector?Pages
