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The Effects of Cost Elimination on Secondary School Enrolment in Sub-Saharan Africa
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Gabriel Asante – Educational Review, 2024
Following the widespread adoption and implementation of Education for All (EFA) at the World Education Forum held at Dakar as part of the Millennium Development Goals in 2000, school enrolment at the basic level of education has increased in Sub-Saharan Africa. With the region having the lowest rate of youth enrolled in upper secondary schools in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sustainable Development, Secondary Education, Costs
Multilingual Examinations: Towards a Schema of Politicization of Language in End of High School Examinations in Sub-Saharan Africa
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Antia, Bassey E. – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2021
In many countries of sub-Saharan Africa, the release of each year's results for the end of high school examinations heralds an annual ritual of public commentary on the poor state of national education systems. However, the exoglossic/monolingual language regime for these examinations is infrequently acknowledged as contributing to the dismal…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Social Differences, Exit Examinations, High School Students
Planning and Implementing Policies for Special Education and Rehabilitation Services in Sub-Saharan Africa: Problems and Suggestions
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Malakpa, Sakui W. G. – Journal of the International Association of Special Education, 2009
Despite genuine efforts, countries in sub-Saharan Africa significantly lag behind sister nations of the world in providing basic education and more so in providing special education and rehabilitation services for students with disabilities. This work gives an overview of the magnitude of this problem and outlines some of its causes. In addition,…
Descriptors: Educational Planning, Disabilities, Foreign Countries, Special Education
Evidence Based Education Request Desk. EBE #845
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Regional Educational Laboratory Southeast, 2011
Gifted students have unique educational needs. Although gifted students are as varied as other students in terms of their learning styles and preferences, all gifted learners have exhibited unusual performance or potential and they have distinctive characteristics, shared by most of these students, which require effective responses from educators.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Talent, Academically Gifted, Information Technology
Languages and Education in Africa a Comparative and Transdisciplinary Analysis
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Brock-Utne, Birgit, Ed.; Skattum, Ingse, Ed. – Symposium Books, 2009
The theme of this book cuts across disciplines. Contributors to this volume are specialized in education and especially classroom research as well as in linguistics, most being transdisciplinary themselves. Around 65 sub-Saharan languages figure in this volume as research objects: as means of instruction, in connection with teacher training,…
Descriptors: African Languages, Language Planning, Multicultural Education, Beginning Reading
The NEPAD e-Schools Demonstration Project: A Work in Progress. A Public Report
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Farrell, Glen; Isaacs, Shafika; Trucano, Michael – Commonwealth of Learning, 2007
The NEPAD e-Schools Initiative is a multi-country, multi-stakeholder, continental project to teach ICT skills to young Africans in primary and secondary schools and improve the provision of education in schools through the use of ICT applications and the Internet. The first phase of the Initiative is a "Demonstration Project"…
Descriptors: Private Sector, Program Evaluation, Demonstration Programs, Program Effectiveness