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Mizel, Omar – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2009
"School-based management" (SBM) rose to become a prominent trend in educational reform in Western countries during the last few decades of the 20th century and has likewise been introduced into a number of Asian and African nations. A key component of SBM is the increase of internal accountability within the school with the aim of…
Descriptors: School Based Management, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Accountability
Sch Soc, 1969
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Educational Improvement, Educational Quality, Enrollment
Srivastava, Prachi, Ed.; Walford, Geoffrey, Ed. – Symposium Books, 2007
The increased marketisation and privatisation of schooling in economically developing countries struggling to achieve Education for All and Millennium Development Goals warrants a focused examination of the phenomenon. However, there is little work on the nature and extent of private provision in countries that, on the one hand, are striving to…
Descriptors: Private Education, Private Schools, Private Sector, Low Income Groups
Bush, Tony; Oduro, George K. T. – Journal of Educational Administration, 2006
Purpose: This paper aims to examine the challenges facing new principals in Africa. Design/methodology/approach: Based on recent research and literature, the paper analyses the experience of principals and proposes an induction model for principalship in Africa. Findings: School principals in Africa face a daunting challenge. They often work in…
Descriptors: Leadership Training, Foreign Countries, Instructional Leadership, Administrator Responsibility
Nenty, H. J.; Adedoyin, O. O.; Odili, John N.; Major, T. E. – Educational Research and Reviews, 2007
More than any other of its aspects, assessment plays a central role in determining the quality of education. Quality of primary/basic education (QoE) can be viewed as the extent to which the process of education at the primary education level maximizes desirable outcomes in terms of cognitive, affective and psychomotor behaviour of the learners.…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Foreign Countries, Elementary Education, Statistical Analysis
Ntakiyimana, Felicien – Exchange: The Early Childhood Leaders' Magazine Since 1978, 2005
With the multiplication of armed conflicts around the world, especially in Africa, there are more and more children who are exposed to war related violence. War sows the seeds of fear, restlessness, uncertainty, and despair. Families are scattered, and children are left without care; parents are detained, killed, or disappear. No wonder children…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Work, Foster Care, Depression (Psychology)
Mostert, J. W. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 2006
This article will first provide a theoretical overview of the problems that learners experience in distance education. It will also deal with some of the implications for course design. Problems associated with study through a distance education institution include loneliness, time management, examination skills and the format of the study…
Descriptors: Independent Study, Distance Education, Time Management, Prior Learning
Evoh, Chijioke J. – Educational Media International, 2007
The focus of this study is on lessons learned by collaborative partnerships that use ICTs to expand access to and improve the quality of secondary education in South Africa. Secondary education is the most strategic, and unfortunately the least developed education sector in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Empirical studies show that, in addition to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Technology, Secondary Education, Private Sector
Robson, Sue; Sylvester, Kanyanta Bonaventure – Educational Research, 2007
Background: There is an emerging corpus of work on the impact of the HIV/AIDS epidemic on education in sub-Saharan Africa. This mainly employs demographic models to make projections of student enrolments and teacher requirements. However, there is a paucity of research in basic schools to examine the experiences of AIDS-affected teachers and…
Descriptors: Public Health, Foreign Countries, Incidence, Strategic Planning
Agency for International Development (IDCA), Washington, DC. – 1993
Since 1989, the United States Agency for International Development (AID) Africa bureau has operated under an Agency-wide Congressional Basic Education earmark, which specifically required the creation of five new basic education programs in sub-Saharan Africa between 1989 and 1991. The Bureau exceeded that goal by initiating primary education…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Educational Quality, Efficiency, Elementary Secondary Education

Fry, Edward – Reading Teacher, 1995
Offers four brief stories about teachers and teaching in Africa and the Caribbean. Points out that being interested in reading around the world and, in particular, in Third World countries has helped the author and many other people. (SR)
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Educational Quality, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
Adler, Jill; Setati, Mamokgethi – Perspectives in Education, 2005
In his article, A class act -- Mathematics as filter of equity in South African schools, Michael Kahn analyses South African data from matriculation examinations and draws on and re-examines previous analyses he himself has done. This document highlights the important insights into participation and performance in mathematics in South Africa that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematics Education, Mathematics Achievement, Equal Education
Neale-Shutte, M.; Fourie, J. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 2006
The paucity of clear, comprehensive and current information about higher education, and internationalisation in African higher education, scratches African countries from contention in both the race within Africa, and the race globally, for quality higher education for the world's mobile students. In addition to a lack of information, other…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, International Education, Case Studies
Zhang, Yanhong – Comparative Education Review, 2006
In this article, the author documents the learning disadvantage of rural primary school students in sub-Saharan Africa and attempts to identify the factors underlying such disadvantages. Analyzing data from 14 school systems participating in the second study of the Southern and Western Africa Consortium for Monitoring Educational Quality (SACMEQ…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Quality, Reading Achievement, Academic Achievement
Edmundson, Andrea, Ed. – Information Science Publishing, 2007
"Globalized E-Learning Cultural Challenges" explores the issues educators, administrators, and instructional designers face when transferring knowledge and skills to other cultures through e-learning. Most e-learning courses have been designed in Western cultures, but the largest and fastest-growing consumer groups live in Eastern…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Global Approach, Cultural Differences, Foreign Countries