Education International Africa

Articles

1. 20 September 2016

   

   Schooling the poor profitably: the innovations and deprivations of Bridge International Academies in Uganda

   by C. Riep and M. Machacek

   Curtis B. Riep

   Research

   The study reveals the operations of BIA in Uganda where it sells its version of ‘education,’ or its standardised ‘Academy-in-a-Box,’ to an estimated 12,000 fee-paying students in 63 schools.

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2. 15 January 2013

   

   Global managerial education reforms and teachers

   Edited by Antoni Verger, Hülya Altinyelken Mireille de Koning

   Research

   The EI Research Institute and the University of Amsterdam IS Academie "Education and Development" have co-published a volume exploring the role that teachers play in global policy processes and the effects of education reforms on teachers' labour and professionalism in seven case study countries, including India, Indonesia, Jamaica, Namibia, Peru,...

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3. 23 June 2011

   

   Impacts of IMF policies on national education budgets and teachers

   Rick Rowden

   Research

   This Education International Research Institute report provides a critical review of how current IMF macroeconomic policy conditions and advice impact on the ability of borrowing countries to finance national education budgets, wages for public sector teachers, and how such policies affect the ability of governments to achieve the progressive realization...

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4. 19 December 2007

   

   Teacher supply, recruitment and retention in six Anglophone Sub-Saharan African countries

   Dennis Sinyolo

   Research

   The purpose of this survey was to investigate teacher supply, teacher attrition, teacher remuneration and motivation, teacher absenteeism and union involvement in policy development in six Anglophone African countries: The Gambia, Kenya, Lesotho, Tanzania Uganda and Zambia.

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