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Huge challenges in the South African post-schooling system |
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Author: Jenny Glennie
In 2009, nearly 42 per cent of youth in South Africa between the ages of 18 and 24 – nearly 3 million young people – were not in employment, education…
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The promise of open educational resources for higher education in Africa |
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Author: Catherine Ngugi and Neil Butcher
Open educational resources (OER) refer to educational resources that are freely available for use by educators and learners without an accompanying need to pay royalties or licence fees…
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School-to-work transition in the Caribbean: social efficiency or active citizenship? |
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Author: Henry Charles and Madgerie Jameson-Charles
‘The global youth unemployment rate, which has long exceeded that of other age groups, saw its largest annual increase on record in 2009…
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Learning for life |
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Author: Professor Emeritus Anuwar Ali
The Chinese have a proverb that says learning is much like rowing upstream – those who do not push forward run the risk of drifting back…
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Connecting the Commonwealth through research partnerships |
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Author: Lorraine Symaco and Michael Crossley
Governments now, more than ever, aspire to restructure their higher education systems to maximise their contribution to overall economic development..
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A TVET framework model to facilitate policy formulation |
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Author: Nasir Kazmi
Half the population of the Commonwealth – 1 billion people – are below the age of 25 years, and a significant proportion of them are adolescents…
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Linking TVET with economic expansion |
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Author: Law Song Seng
Governments the world over often pronounce the importance of Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) in the social and economic development of people and nations…
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Gender, early childhood education and development in Singapore |
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Author: Ministry of Community, Youth and Sports, Singapore
Singapore is a small city-state with an open economy. To remain competitive, its people have to continuously upgrade themselves…
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Gender, science and technology: the sustainability gap |
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Author: Kabir Shaikh
We live in interesting times. Think of the whole world witnessing the historic events in Egypt and Tunisia that led to transfers of power…
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