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Sumida, Sugata; Kawata, Keisuke – South African Journal of Education, 2021
The learning gap between urban and rural areas is a persistent problem in many sub-Saharan African countries. Previous studies have found that the urban-rural learning gap is attributed to the fact that student characteristics and school resources are different in urban and rural areas. Our study updates this finding by using the latest dataset…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, Reading Achievement, Rural Urban Differences, Student Characteristics
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Grant, Chris; Gazdula, Joe – Journal of Ethnographic & Qualitative Research, 2020
In the present article, we explore beliefs and attitudes towards research ethics among graduate students in the two south-central African countries of Zambia and Malawi. The participants were 11 mid-career professionals studying graduate business programs delivered in-country in partnership with a British university. We conducted semi-structured,…
Descriptors: Ethics, Moral Values, Student Attitudes, Graduate Students
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Inoue, Kazuma; Oketch, Moses – Peabody Journal of Education, 2008
Malawi and Ghana are among the numerous Sub-Saharan Africa countries that have in recent years introduced Free Primary Education (FPE) policy as a means to realizing the 2015 Education for All and Millennium Development Goals international targets. The introduction of FPE policy is, however, a huge challenge for any national government that has…
Descriptors: Educational Development, Economic Progress, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries