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Direct linkKanwar, Asha; Daniel, John – Commonwealth of Learning, 2020
This brief to Ministers of Education provides examples of how governments and institutions made it possible for people to continue their education during the COVID-19 pandemic and identifies factors that contributed to success.
Descriptors: COVID-19, School Closing, Pandemics, Access to Education
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Download full textTaukeni, Simon; Matshidiso, Taole – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2013
In this comparative paper we interrogate the access of social grants to meet orphan children school needs in Namibia and South Africa. We noted that the two governments are committed to provide orphan children with social grants to enable them to meet the school needs. However, accessing social grant to benefit most vulnerable orphan children…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Needs, Access to Education, Children
Makuwa, Demus K.; Maarse, Jan – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2013
This article highlights the rationale for Namibia's participation in three studies which were conducted under the auspices of the Southern and Eastern Africa Consortium for Monitoring Educational Quality (SACMEQ) during the period 1995-2007. The article provides some of the innovative ways in which the results of the first (SACMEQ I, 1995) and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Quality, Reading Achievement, Mathematics Achievement
Cwi, Cwisa; Hays, Jennifer – Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 2011
This article provides an overview of a mother-tongue education project for the Ju|'hoansi of Nyae Nyae in Namibia--the village schools. These schools are the only places in southern Africa where an Indigenous San community has access to mother-tongue education for 3 years; and are, thus, an important example in the region. However, there are some…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Rural Education, Heritage Education
Visser, Herman – New Directions for Institutional Research, 2008
African higher education is currently facing tremendous challenges. The pressure and demand for access is huge. This is understandable against the background of traditionally low participation, low success and throughput rates, declining financial contributions from governments and donors, and critical pressures for efficiency, modernization,…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Institutional Research, Global Approach, Foreign Countries
Rumble, Greville; Koul, Badri N – Commonwealth of Learning, 2007
As defined by the Commonwealth of Learning (COL), Open Schooling involves "the physical separation of the school-level learner from the teacher, and the use of unconventional teaching methodologies, and information and communications technologies (ICTs) to bridge the separation and provide the education and training". Within this…
Descriptors: Open Education, Population Growth, Quality Control, Foreign Countries
van der Kooy, R. J. W., Ed. – 1988
This collection of reports examines the current state of development in southern Africa, in general, and in South Africa, in particular. The introduction, "A Development Perspective of Southern Africa" (R. J. W. van der Kooy), briefly reviews the history of southern African development, and discusses purposes, approaches, and progress.…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Economic Development, Educational Development, Foreign Countries
De Grauwe, Anton – 2001
Through narration and with the aid of 27 tables and 11 figures, this book reports on the school supervision system in four African countries. (The research is part of a larger series of studies sponsored by UNESCO and the International Institute for Educational Planning.) The countries studied were Botswana, Namibia, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe. The…
Descriptors: Central Office Administrators, Disadvantaged Schools, Educational Environment, Educational Improvement
De Grauwe, A., Ed. – 2001
This publication forms the second volume of a report on a study of the school supervision system in four African countries. (The research is part of a larger series of studies sponsored by UNESCO and the International Institute for Educational Planning.) The countries studied were Botswana, Namibia, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe. The study examined the…
Descriptors: Central Office Administrators, Disadvantaged Schools, Educational Environment, Educational Improvement
Totemeyer, A.-J., Ed.; And Others – 1993
This document contains the following papers presented at a seminar in which information workers from Namibia and neighboring countries elaborated on future information services in Namibia: "Welcome" (A. de Klerk); "Right to Information and Citizenship" (N. Angula); "Namibia: Information Policy Issues and the State of…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Archives, Coordination, Elementary Secondary Education
