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  Costing teacher education in Ghana: micro realities and macro contexts

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Rapid school enrolment expansion in many developing countries, and subsequent concerns over worsening educational quality, has prompted renewed interest in teacher education. But despite its central role in every educational system across the world, teacher education remains under-researched.
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  Mixed Messages

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Can education spearhead the fight against HIV/AIDS? In Uganda the government uses the national curriculum to promote sexual health in schools. Yet if school culture reinforces gender inequality - a fundamental cause of HIV spread - will government strategy work? Are schools a risk factor in the spread of this deadly virus?
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  Adaptive learning: lessons from Southern Lao PDR

  Marine Resources Assessment Group, 2002

  These guidelines share the experiences of applying an ‘adaptive learning’ approach to the management of small waterbodies in Southern Lao PDR.Adaptive learning is a management approach that explicitly recognises that uncertainties exist and, instead of glossing over them, seeks to reduce them at the same time as managing the resource.
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  Better livelihoods through literacy or literacy through livelihoods skills?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Does literacy come first and development follow? How much literacy is needed as a pre- requisite to development? Can effective training in livelihood skills be added to large scale literacy programmes? Or is it more effective to add literacy education to programmes set up mainly to teach livelihood skills?
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  Generating decent work for young people

  International Labour Organization, 2002

  This paper summarises some of the main global trends related to youth unemployment and underemployment. It highlights some of the key issues involved in generating decent work - in conditions of freedom, equality, security and human dignity for young women and men.
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  Child labor and school decisions in urban and rural areas: cross-country evidence

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2002

  This paper simultaneously examines a list of determinants of child schooling and employment decisions to enable the identification of factors that are more important than others while investigating their pertinence across countries and urban and rural areas within a given country.
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  Child labour and its impact on children’s access to and participation in primary education: a case study from Tanzania

  Department for International Development, UK, 2003

  This study into child labour, or the working child, is a preliminary investigation of those children who work hard both at their education and who make an invaluable contribution to the economy of their homes and the locality in which they live.Specific questions addressed in the research are:what are the child labour practices in terms of type, quantity and quality?what is the impa
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  An analysis of primary teacher education in Trinidad and Tobago

  Department for International Development, UK, 2003

  This country report is a synthesis of reports of several sub-studies on primary teacher education in Trinidad and Tobago.The research itself focused on the following topics:On-the-Job Pre-Service Teacher Training Programme (OJT Programme)characteristics of beginning teachers’ college trainees (post OJT)trainees’ views of themselves and the teaching professionthe documented a
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  Teaching adults to read better and faster: results from an experiment in Burkina Faso

  World Bank Publications, 2003

  Two cognitively oriented methods were tested in Burkina Faso to help illiterates learn to read more efficiently. These were (a) speeded reading of increasingly larger word units and (b) phonological awareness training to help connect letters to speech.Learners were given reading tests and a computerized reaction time test.
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  The paradox of education and unemployment in Egypt

  Egyptian Center for Economic Studies (ECES), Egypt, 2002

  This paper addresses the paradox of the Egyptian education system which the author argues is incapable of providing markets with the quantity and quality of educated individuals most in demand.The main findings of the paper are:Egyptian educational outcomes are not consistent with market demand; the education system is producing the wrong mix, but also the wrong qualityEgypt has inv

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