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Direct linkMcKay, Veronica – Commonwealth of Learning, 2022
This report presents a survey of distance learning in South Africa. The report reviews current policy and practice in relation to issues of access, equity, quality and costs. This was done using a survey of open distance learning (ODL) institutions, data from different institutions, and available studies conducted by Commonwealth of Learning…
Descriptors: Distance Education, COVID-19, Pandemics, Educational Policy
Download full textUNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning, 2016
The UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) has just published its fifth policy brief, entitled "Making Large-Scale Literacy Campaigns and Programmes Work." The brief provides policymakers with a set of recommendations based on an analysis of adult literacy campaigns and programmes that took place around the world between 2000 and…
Descriptors: Lifelong Learning, Educational Policy, Literacy Education, Adult Literacy
Peer reviewedHowie, Sarah; Scherman, Vanessa – Studies in Educational Evaluation, 2008
In the past politics deprived many African children (in particular) in South Africa the opportunity of achieving quality education. This was most especially true in subjects such as mathematics and science. In this research the science teacher-level data from Third International Mathematics and Science Study 1999 (TIMSS'99) were analysed with a…
Descriptors: Science Achievement, Educational Quality, Urban Areas, Rural Areas
Day, Christopher, Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011
The International Handbook of Teacher and School Development brings together a collection of research and evidence-based authoritative writings which focus on international teacher and school development. Drawing on research from 18 countries across 7 continents, the 40 chapters are grouped into 10 themes which represent key aspects of teacher and…
Descriptors: Teachers, Expectation, Teaching (Occupation), Accountability
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
Brown, Kathleen – Journal of Educational Administration, 2006
Purpose: Outlines a framework for social justice, describes both the social and educational context of South Africa, highlights inequitable funding practices, and then advocates for policy changes in the form of vertical equity. Design/methodology/approach: Provides a retrospective review of mandated segregation by race to hypothetical…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Equal Education, Racial Segregation, Educational Quality
