{"id":1940,"date":"2013-09-16T13:49:31","date_gmt":"2013-09-16T13:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cedol.org\/?page_id=1940"},"modified":"2013-09-16T15:44:13","modified_gmt":"2013-09-16T15:44:13","slug":"education-in-difficult-circumstances","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.cedol.org\/commonwealth-education-partnerships\/articles-201213\/education-in-difficult-circumstances\/","title":{"rendered":"Education in difficult circumstances"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n<\/strong><\/td>\n		Huge challenges in the South African \u00a0post-schooling system<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Author:\u00a0Jenny Glennie<\/span>
\nIn 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…<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\"\"<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\nThe promise of open educational resources for higher education in Africa<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Author:\u00a0Catherine Ngugi and Neil Butcher<\/span>
\nOpen 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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\"\"<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\nSchool-to-work transition in the Caribbean: social efficiency or active citizenship?<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Author:\u00a0Henry Charles and Madgerie Jameson-Charles<\/span>
\n‘The global youth unemployment rate, which has long exceeded that of other age groups, saw its largest annual increase on record in 2009…<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\"\"<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\nLearning for life<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Author:\u00a0Professor Emeritus Anuwar Ali<\/span>
\nThe Chinese have a proverb that says learning is much like rowing upstream – those who do not push forward run the risk of drifting back…<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\"\"<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\nConnecting the Commonwealth through research partnerships<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Author:\u00a0Lorraine Symaco and Michael Crossley<\/span>
\nGovernments now, more than ever, aspire to restructure their higher education systems to maximise their contribution to overall economic development..<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\"\"<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\nA TVET framework model to facilitate policy formulation<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Author:\u00a0Nasir Kazmi<\/span>
\nHalf the population of the Commonwealth – 1 billion people – are below the age of 25 years, and a significant proportion of them are adolescents…<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\"\"<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\nLinking TVET with economic expansion<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Author: \u00a0Law Song Seng<\/span>
\nGovernments 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…<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\"\"<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\nGender, early childhood education and development in Singapore<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Author:\u00a0Ministry of Community, Youth and Sports, Singapore<\/span>
\nSingapore is a small city-state with an open economy. To remain competitive, its people have to continuously upgrade themselves…<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\"\"<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\nGender, science and technology: \u00a0the sustainability gap<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Author: \u00a0Kabir Shaikh\u00a0<\/span>
\nWe live in interesting times. Think of the whole world witnessing the historic events in Egypt and Tunisia that led to transfers of power…<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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