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Ross, Kenneth N., Ed.; Genevois, Ilona Jurgens, Ed. – International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP) UNESCO, 2006
There has been a worldwide growth of interest among governments and international agencies in cross-national studies of the quality of education. However, such studies require careful planning, and have far-reaching implications for all concerned. Ministries of education should only become involved if they are prepared to actively engage in…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Foreign Countries, Educational Quality, Educational Planning

Jonathan, L. T. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 2000
Discusses quality assurance and evaluation at institutions of higher education in Africa. Notes driving forces behind this trend, including declining financial resources; accountability to stakeholders; and massification, internationalization, and globalization of education. Notes establishment by many institutions of internal and external quality…
Descriptors: Accountability, Developing Nations, Educational Quality, Educational Trends
Bray, Mark – Compare: A Journal of Comparative Education, 2006
Private supplementary tutoring has long been a major phenomenon in parts of East Asia, including Japan, Hong Kong, South Korea and Taiwan. In recent times it has grown dramatically in other parts of Asia and in Africa, Europe and North America. The factors underlying the growth of private tutoring vary, but in all settings it has major…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Tutoring, Low Income Groups, Supplementary Education
Fass, Simon M.; And Others – 1991
The role of the political class in the debate on how to improve education in the Sahelian countries is examined in this monograph. Although cultural backwardness and faulty inquiry impede educational quality, the major problem is the absence of political forms through which all people can participate in educational reform. A review of the…
Descriptors: Colonialism, Democratic Values, Developing Nations, Educational Improvement
Brunswic, Etienne; Valerien, Jean – International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP) UNESCO, 2004
This study is concerned with the organization of education in rural areas and the advantages of a strategy based on multigrade classes, i.e. classes having a single teacher but pupils of several grade levels studying different curricula. This strategy made a substantial contribution to the achievement of universal primary education at reasonable…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary Education, Learning Modules, Educational Quality
Geo-Jaja, Macleans A. – International Review of Education, 2004
Arguing that the politicisation of decentralisation appreciably reduces educational quality and efficient resource allocation and negatively affects matters of equity in and delivery of education, the present study provides a critique of decentralisation and privatisation in education in Africa with special reference to Nigeria. On the basis of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Privatization, Educational Quality, Resource Allocation
Benavot, Aaron; Gad, Limor – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2004
Educational theorists and researchers have long considered time a key component of individual learning. Caroll, in his classic model of school-based learning, conceptualized achievement as an outcome of two time variables: first, the amount of time a learner is engaged in learning; and second, an individual's learning rate. Caroll's ideas…
Descriptors: Researchers, Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries, Educational Quality
Koul, Badri N., Ed.; Kanwar, Asha, Ed. – Commonwealth of Learning, 2006
This third publication on the theme of quality in the Commonwealth of Learning Perspectives on Distance Education series widens the discussion beyond external quality assurance processes to a more generic focus on a "culture of quality." It is an extension of the earlier two publications, which came out in 1994 and 1997 and drew…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Quality, Open Education, Distance Education
Subrahmanian, Ramya – United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), 2005
This publication focuses on strategies for meeting international targets and national goals for universalizing girls' access to, retention in and completion of quality education. This will be done through "scaling up" successful interventions, or components of interventions that can be replicated. UNESCO published this book within the…
Descriptors: Womens Education, Equal Education, Academic Persistence, Graduation
Saint, William – Human Development Network Education, 2005
The Education Working Paper Series is produced by the Education Unit at the World Bank (HDNED). It provides an avenue for World Bank staff to publish and disseminate preliminary education findings to encourage discussion and exchange ideas within the World Bank and among the broader development community. This Guide seeks to help those who design…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Educational Change, Innovation
Braimoh, Dele; Alade, Eunice B. – Online Submission, 2005
Academic research and publishing, particularly at the higher education level, are activities that do not only complement effective teaching but are also sine-qua-non for the achievement of academic excellence. However, due to myriad of factors, many academics in Tertiary Institutions have a myopic belief that universities are meant, essentially…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Educational Quality, Research Universities, Faculty Publishing
Bar-On, Arnon – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2004
Less than 1 percent of children in sub-Sahara Africa currently attend formal care and education programmes, but the number is expected to increase substantially following large investments in the sector. To date, however, little attention has been given to the contents of these programmes. This article seeks to begin addressing this lacuna,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Care, Child Rearing, Developing Nations
Maruatona, Tonic – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2006
Lifelong learning has come to be internationally recognized as a framework in the development of sustainable education. However, in spite of rhetoric and its endorsement in some nations' policy documents, lifelong learning is not operationalized and Africa continues to be plagued by social maladies such as HIV/AIDS, capacity poverty, low quality…
Descriptors: Cultural Pluralism, Foreign Countries, Educational Quality, Citizen Participation
Sunal, Dennis W. – 1989
A model for enhancing the educational effectiveness of an African university was developed through the West Virginia University-Bayero University, Kano (Nigeria) linkage activities carried out from 1984-1988. The three goals of the model were to: further develop abilities of African university faculty to carry out research, curriculum development,…
Descriptors: College Students, Curriculum Development, Developing Nations, Educational Quality
Academy for Educational Development, Washington, DC. – 2002
Most African countries have devoted considerable attention to educating the generations of people born since the independence era. Despite their efforts, however, African governments continue to face rising illiteracy, grade-repetition, and drop-out rates, as well as growing numbers of expulsions. This report presents a synthesis of the main…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Community Involvement, Comparative Education, Educational Quality