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New Strategy for South African Higher Education |
This is the first Strategic Plan tabled in the National Assembly by the new Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET). It represents considerable work undertaken by a department that is in the process of being established.
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Trends in Education Macro Indicators 2009 |
The overall objective of this report is to provide a summary of key trends in macro indicators for the education sector in South Africa. It aims to give an overview of the system over the past decade, with the intention of providing both a summary of the past and a guide for the future.
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Study Criticises Laptops for Children Scheme |
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The "One Laptop per Child" (OLPC) scheme, which has sent over a million US$100 laptops to children in the developing world, has been criticised by researchers who found that, unless they are introduced with care, they become little more than distracting toys in the classroom. |
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The Ministerial Committee on Learner Retention in the South African Schooling System was appointed by the Minister of Education, the Honourable Mrs GNM Pandor, to conduct an investigation on the extent of retention and dropout in the schooling system.
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DoE Learner Absenteeism Report |
The purpose of the study was to investigate the incidence of learner absenteeism in the country, the reasons why learners absent themselves from schools and examine the systems that exist to monitor and reduce learner absenteeism.
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Last In Line Last In School - Report |
Save the Children is calling on bilateral and multilateral donors to individually review their policies and practices to ensure that they are providing sufficient and equitable financing for education in development and humanitarian contexts.
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Consultations have now resulted in a draft instructional guide for preparing open school budgets that is now available for open consultation on WikiEducator.
www.wikieducator.org/Open_Schools |
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The Virtual High School, a non-profit organization that offers content-rich, credit-bearing high school courses to students across the United States and around the world.
http://www.govhs.org |
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