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Accountability and governance in the public school system |
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Author: Aditya Natraj
Funding for primary education in India has seen a consistent rise in the past few decades. With growing understanding that primary schooling provides…
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Celebrating Botswana’s teachers |
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Author: Matlhogonolo Mokakapadi
The strength of any educational system depends on the quality of its teachers, and the quality of the teachers depends on the quality of teacher education programmes…
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Women and the teaching profession |
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Author: Fatimah Kelleher
The debate over women in teaching and the ‘feminisation’ of the teaching profession has been prevalent for some time in countries such as Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States…
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Reflections on the bright and dark sides of free education in sub-Saharan Africa |
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Author: George K T Oduro
Governments in sub-Saharan Africa have, over the years, acknowledged school education as the driver through which the achievement of their countries’ development goals can be accelerated…
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Supporting the effective assessment and teaching of 21st-century skills |
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Author: ATC21S
Assessment and Teaching of 21st Century Skills (ATC21S), formed in January 2009 by Cisco Systems Inc., Intel Corporation, Microsoft Corporation and the University of Melbourne, is a multistakeholder research…
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Teacher development: what works? |
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Author: Tessa Welch
With the policy that has been developing in South Africa since the work of the Ministerial Committee on Teacher Education in 2005, there has been a significant shift in our understanding of teacher development…
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Outcomes and outputs in Caribbean education systems: the case of Jamaica |
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Author: Suzanne M Charles Watson
Like every other developing region, there is now widespread recognition in the Anglophone Caribbean region that its capacity to achieve the requisite competitive edge to survive…
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School leadership still matters |
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Author: Petros Pashiardis
In the current global education environment, where various pressures and external challenges to perform better have been identified, there is increasing recognition…
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Teacher education in Samoa |
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Author: Epenesa Esera
Pre-service teacher training started in Samoa in 1939 with the establishment of the Primary Teachers College and since then has undergone several major expansions…
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Strengthening and improving teaching and learning in schools across PNG |
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Author: Peter Kants
This paper provides brief background information on the development, implementation and review of the School Learning Improvement Plan (SLIP) in Papua New Guinea (PNG)…
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Class size and student diversity: two sides of the same coin |
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Author: Bernie Froese-Germain, Rick Riel and Bob McGahey
Among Canadian teacher unions, discussions of class size are increasingly being informed by the importance of considering the diversity of student needs within the classroom…
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What should be taught in our schools and why? |
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Author: Robin Barrow
‘It’s the economy, stupid’ has become something of a political cliché. It is widely accepted that, in terms of schooling…
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The other and I: Turkish teachers in South Africa |
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Author: Michael Samuel
Eighteen years into a new democracy after the official relegation of apartheid in 1994, South Africa is rightfully asking questions about…
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Some cautionary words about constructivism |
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Author: Matthew Conduct
Constructivism in education is a highly influential movement that consists in a number of theoretical and practical claims. In practical terms…
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