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Curricula, Examinations, and Assessment in Secondary Education in Sub-Saharan Africa
World Bank Publications 2008; US$ 9.99Economic and social changes, fast evolution of technology, and the growing importance of internet services and international communications-all these require secondary education providers to adapt what is taught and learned in schools. However, in Africa the content of secondary curricula is in most cases ill-adapted to 21st century challenges, where... more...
Governance, Management, and Accountability in Secondary Education in Sub-Saharan Africa
World Bank Publications 2008; US$ 14.99Increasingly the role of management and governance is recognized as important for providing and delivering effective services at all levels of education. In view of the growing demand for more and better services at secondary education levels, these are crucial issues that must be addressed urgently. Sub-Saharan Africas secondary education and... more...
Developing the Workforce, Shaping the Future
World Bank Publications 2009; US$ 14.99With challenges similar to those faced by a number of low income countries, Madagascar faces critical policy choices with respect to post-basic education. Enrolment ratios in senior secondary education and tertiary education are 10 percent and 3 percent, respectively, among the lowest in the world. Critical skill shortages and pervasive inequities... more...
Higher Education in Francophone Africa
World Bank Publications 2008; US$ 9.99For more than a decade, higher education and research in the French-speaking countries of Africa has been in a state of severe crisis, stemming from an increasing disparity between available resources and the requirements vital to providing high-quality education. This paper seeks to: 1) highlight the factors which have led to the development of this... more...
Confucianism, Colonialism, and the Cold War
BRILL 2011; US$ 144.00By tracing the history of Hong Kong?s New Asia College from its 1949 establishment through its 1963 incorporation into The Chinese University of Hong Kong, this study examines the interaction of colonial, communist, and cultural forces on the Chinese periphery. more...
Behind the Gate
Columbia University Press 2010; US$ 54.99On Sunday, May 4, 1919, thousands of students protested the Versailles treaty in Beijing. Seventy years later, another generation demonstrated in Tiananmen Square; climbing the Monument of the People's Heroes, these protestors stood against a relief of their predecessors, and merged with their own mythology while consciously deploying their activism.... more...
Cheche
Mkuki na Nyota Publishers 2010; US$ 29.95Cheche, a radical, socialist student magazine at the University of Dares Salaam, first came out in 1969. Featuring incisive analyses of key societal issues by prominent progressives, it gained national and international recognition in a short while. Because it was independent of authority, and spoke without fear or favor, it was banned after just a... more...
The University in Africa and Democratic Citizenship
African Minds 2011; US$ 24.95Whether and how higher education in Africa contributes to democratisation beyond producing the professionals that are necessary for developing and sustaining a modern political system, remains an unresolved question. This report, then, represents an attempt to address the question of whether there are university specific mechanisms or pathways by which... more...
Lessons from Mount Kilimanjaro
Taylor and Francis 2000; US$ 44.95An ethnographic study of a school and community in East Africa focusing on the role school plays in the development of children's identity and relationships to their parents and community, as well as in the development of the region. more...
Textbooks and School Library Provision Secondary Education in Sub-Saharan Africa
World Bank Publications 2008; US$ 9.99This study is based on research on secondary textbook and school library provision in Botswana, Cameroon, Cote dIvoire, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Togo, as well as existing recent country reports on textbook provision and an extensive desk research. Considerable variations exist in Sub-Saharan African textbook requirements needed... more...









