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    Meeting their needs? Discussing young people’s sexual health

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    More than six thousand people aged 16-25 become infected with HIV every day worldwide. But the sexual and reproductive health (SRH) needs of young people are often neglected. The Safe Passages to Adulthood Programme, funded by DFID, held a meeting of researchers, practitioners and policy-makers from many countries. They considered the potential of education to protect young people against HIV.
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    Out of the college, into the classroom: the experience of newly-trained teachers

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    In any education system, the transition from teaching college to classroom can be a shock. What support do new teachers get? How are they ‘socialised’ into the institutional set- up of the school? What use do they make of the skills and knowledge they learn at college?
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    Counting the cost of Free Primary Education in Malawi

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Primary education is a priority amongst governments and international agencies, mainly due to its perceived role in reducing poverty. What happens when Free Primary Education (FPE) is put into practice?
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    Finding the teachers of the future: Lessons from the Caribbean.

    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 college-trained teachers who may have no training in acting as mentors?
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    Does practice make perfect? Teacher training in Trinidad and Tobago

    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 are trained. It examines the curriculum in the country’s two government teacher training colleges and looks in particular at teaching practice.
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    Challenging masculine stereotypes: focus on Brazil

    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 differences of socialisation of young men with more gender equitable attitudes and behaviour?
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    Teacher Education in Malawi: matching supply and demand

    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 system. How can Malawi deliver universal primary education? Where will it find the new teachers it needs?
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    UK and overseas universities: working together to promote development?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    The UK’s Higher Education Links Scheme (HEL) promotes exchanges (usually for three years) between UK and overseas universities. In line with objectives set out in its 1997 White Paper on the Elimination of World Poverty, the UK is keen that HEL should focus on poverty alleviation, sustainable development and gender equity. Is this re-emphasis producing results?
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    Film, book or play?: Community-based HIV prevention in rural Uganda

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2001
    Behavioural change interventions still offer the best chance of preventing the spread of HIV in developing countries. But which methods are most effective? Researchers at the MRC Programme on AIDS in Uganda assess four HIV education strategies: drama, video, community educators (CEs) and leaflets. Each has strengths and weaknesses and a combination of approaches may be needed.
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    Knowledge is power: AIDS education for Ugandan schoolchildren

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2001
    Comprehensive AIDS education can make pupils aware of the need to protect themselves against infection. It can also bring about gradual changes in the wider social environment, making safer sex more acceptable. But what is the best way to introduce AIDS education to schools with scarce resources and a packed curriculum?

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