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de Kock, Fleetwood Jerry; de Beer, Zacharias Louw; Wolhuter, Charl C.; Potgieter, Ferdinand Jacobus – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2022
Various internal and external determinants influence an education system. External determinants include language, demographics, geography, technology, politics, and financial and economic trends. Religion is also one of these external determinants that can influence an education system, as well as the education systems of the. The BRICS member…
Descriptors: Religion, Religious Factors, Comparative Education, Foreign Countries
Bloe, Diasmer – Educational Testing Service, 2015
In partnership with Educational Testing Service (ETS) and the Center for Minority Serving Institutions at the University of Pennsylvania's Graduate School of Education, Salzburg Global Seminar hosted an international strategic dialogue of 60 thought leaders, researchers, and practitioners from institutions serving marginalized populations to…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Higher Education, Access to Education, Student Diversity
Micou, Ann M., Ed. – 1990
Ten informal papers given at Discussion Forums to U.S. groups are provided which address current South African related issues as they touch upon the South African Information Exchange (SAIE) initiative. Papers have the following titles and authors: "Is There Space for American Involvement in South African Education?" (Merlyn C. Mehl);…
Descriptors: Colleges, Conference Papers, Educational Cooperation, Foreign Countries
Fraser, Bill – Aspects of Educational and Training Technology Series, 1992
Reviews changing high school science curricula in South Africa, outlining two recent movements: aiming syllabi at the 85% of students who do not graduate in the sciences, and teaching basic knowledge and skills rather than specific and narrow job skills that easily become obsolete. Suggests that closer cooperation between curriculum planners,…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Course Descriptions, Educational Change, Educational Cooperation
Fleisch, Brahm – 1993
The United States influenced the origins, elaboration, and implementation of the politics of knowledge between social science and policy in the South African National Bureau for Educational and Social Research. Divided into six sections, the historical analysis of the Bureau: (1) examined the context within which the Bureau emerged, the origins of…
Descriptors: Educational Cooperation, Educational Development, Educational History, Educational Planning
Smith, Walter L. – 1996
From 1948 to 1994, the Republic of South Africa (RSA) maintained 15 different departments of education and separate educational systems, signifying the inequality in educational opportunities throughout the era of apartheid. Even before the new democratic system of government ushered in with the 1994 elections, however, the possibility of…
Descriptors: Access to Education, College Planning, Community Colleges, Educational Change
2001
This document contains three papers on global knowledge transfer issues and human resource development (HRD). "Indigenizing Knowledge Transfer" (Gary N. McLean) explores examples of HRD in which ethnocentric perspectives predominate and argues that, unless a HRD develops a global perspective, efforts to transfer knowledge within academia…
Descriptors: Action Research, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Comparative Analysis