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European Training Foundation, 2020
By 16 March 2020, most education systems in the EU neighbourhood and Central Asia had closed their schools. In a matter of days, some distance learning was offered in most systems and in the ensuing weeks, most countries steadily broadened the offer and the extent of participation. This short report aims to describe what happened in the countries…
Descriptors: Distance Education, School Closing, Disease Incidence, Disease Control
Association of Commonwealth Universities, 2020
The Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU) conducted a digital engagement survey in May 2020, designed to capture the short-term impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the working habits of staff, students, and university leaders. Results provide a snapshot of individual levels of digital engagement, changing attitudes and behaviours, and the…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
UNICEF, 2021
This report, which has been developed through a partnership between the African Union Commission (AUC) and UNICEF, aims to: (1) track the progress that African nations have made in education, especially in relation to Sustainable Development Goal 4 (SDG4) and the Continental Education Strategy for Africa (CESA) goals; (2) identify the challenges…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Spaull, Nicholas; Taylor, Stephen – Comparative Education Review, 2015
The aim of the current study is to create a composite statistic of educational quantity and educational quality by combining household data (Demographic and Health Survey) on grade completion and survey data (Southern and Eastern African Consortium for Monitoring Educational Quality) on cognitive outcomes for 11 African countries: Kenya, Lesotho,…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Institutional Evaluation, Gender Differences, Foreign Countries
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Woldegiorgis, Emnet Tadesse; Jonck, Petronella; Goujon, Anne – International Journal of Higher Education, 2015
Europe's Bologna Process has been identified as a pioneering approach in regional cooperation with respect to the area of higher education. To address the challenges of African higher education, policymakers are recommending regional cooperation that uses the Bologna Process as a model. Based on these recommendations, the African Union Commission…
Descriptors: Educational Change, International Cooperation, Educational Policy, Student Mobility
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Kazima, Mercy – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2014
In this paper, I discuss Universal Basic Education (UBE) in relation to the teaching and learning of mathematics in Southern Africa. I present the status of UBE for all countries in the region and then use 3 selected examples: Botswana, Malawi, and Zambia, to illustrate the provision of mathematics in the general framework of UBE in the countries.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Access to Education, Mathematics Instruction, Cross Cultural Studies
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Santally, Mohammad – European Journal of Open, Distance and E-Learning, 2016
The aim of this paper is to present a comprehensive review of the African Leadership in ICT (ALICT-LATIC) course delivery model, offered by the Global e-Schools and Communities Initiatives (GESCI) from a quality assurance perspective taking into account the delivery model, cultural context, and the distributed nature of the programme and its…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Information Technology, Educational Quality, Blended Learning
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Perry, Lindsey – International Journal of School & Educational Psychology, 2013
This literature review examines formative assessment education practices currently being utilized in Africa, as well as recent research regarding professional development on such assessments. Two main conclusions about formative assessment use and training, as well as a set of recommendations about teacher training on formative assessment, can be…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Formative Evaluation, Educational Practices, Professional Development
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Wolhuter, C. C.; Kangumu, B.; Mungongi, F. – Higher Education Forum, 2014
The aim of this article is to examine and assess Africa's higher education effort. The theoretical framework employed distinguishes between three dimensions of the higher education project: the quantitative dimension (measured in terms of higher education enrollments and enrollment ratios), the qualitative dimension, and the equality dimension.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Educational Development, Enrollment Trends
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Peairson, Shannon; Haynes, Cary; Johnson, Charles; Bergquist, Carol; Krinhop, Kash – Journal of Applied Research on Children, 2014
"Education of Children with Disabilities: Voices from Around the World" combines research on children with disabilities and women/girls with disabilities. These projects provided opportunities to interview disability professionals, policy-makers and persons with disabilities from around the world with the purpose of learning about needs,…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Access to Education, Foreign Countries, Cultural Differences
Munene, Ishmael I. – Routledge Research in International and Comparative Education, 2014
In the face of increasing social demand and cutbacks in state budgetary support, universities in African countries are now turning towards a multicampus system strategy. As African governments have adopted neoliberal education policies that place premium on entrepreneurialism, profit making, privatization, and markets as drivers of university…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multicampus Colleges, Universities, Governance
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Kelcey, Ben; Shen, Zuchao – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2016
School-based improvement programs represent a core strategy in improving education because they can leverage pre-existing social and organizational structures to promote coordinated and comprehensive change across multiple facets of schooling. School-based programs are generally designed to be implemented by intact schools/districts, frequently…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Effectiveness, Design, Educational Improvement
Education Support Program, Open Society Foundations, 2013
Despite the fact that access to education has dramatically increased over the past decade, 57 million children do not currently have access to education, and many of those who do receive limited, low-quality services. Recent estimates have shown that the stagnation of aid and inflation has meant that the funding gap needed to provide basic…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Investment, Access to Education, Educational Quality
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Ogunniyi, M. B.; Rollnick, Marissa – Journal of Science Teacher Education, 2015
Since the independence era in the 1950s and 1960s, many African countries have recognised the important role that science plays in the socio-economic development of any country. As a result, various African governments have enacted policies and allocated a large proportion of their gross national product to the science and science education sector…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Education, Role, Economic Development
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Bayat, Mojdeh – Childhood Education, 2014
Improving education equity and quality is a major focus of global developmental movements. Within that overarching goal, educators and advocates around the world are working to ensure children with special needs receive a quality education. For many, this means pursuing programs of inclusion. The author of this article uses the tools of education…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Equal Education, Inclusion, Disabilities
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