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Blog posts to provide updates on the status of my current work.
October 15, 2022
Primary and secondary education
THE ATTAINMENT OF GENDER EDUCATION EQUALITY: A PRELIMINARY ASSESSMENT OF COUNTRY PERFORMANCE IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA
A key Sustainable Development Goal target is to ‘eliminate gender disparities in education’ by 2030. The prevailing consensus is that considerable progress has been made in reducing gender schooling inequality during the last two decades. As the 2020 UNESCO Global Gender Education Monitoring Report notes that ‘there has been a generational leap in access to […]
October 15, 2022
Primary and secondary education
DISSATISFIED BUT NOWHERE TO GO: TEACHER ATTRITION AND UNEMPLOYMENT IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA
There are two types of teacher attrition or ‘wastage’. Voluntary attrition where teachers leave the profession before the official retirement age (and thus formally resign from their positions) and involuntary attrition where serving teachers either retire (at the officially prescribed age or earlier as a result of illness), die, or are dismissed for misconduct. Read […]
October 15, 2022
Primary and secondary education
TEACHING TOO LITTLE TO TOO MANY: TEACHING LOADS AND CLASS SIZE IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA
The critical importance of all young people in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) being able to access good quality secondary education is now widely recognised by governments, international aid partners and other key stakeholders. To this end, the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4.1 has an explicit target that ‘by 2030, all girls and boys complete […]
October 15, 2022
Primary and secondary education
HOW WELL PAID ARE PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHERS IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA? A REVIEW OF RECENT EVIDENCE
Teacher pay in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and South Asia has been a highly contentious area of education policy since the early 2000s. This has largely arisen in response to the findings of research and other policy analysis that argues that teachers at government schools in many countries are ‘overpaid’ and that, where this is the […]
October 31, 2021
Primary and secondary education
RECENT TRENDS IN FEMALE AND MALE EDUCATION INEQUALITY IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA
A key Sustainable Development Goal target is to ‘eliminate gender disparities in education’ by 2030. The prevailing consensus is that considerable progress has been made in reducing gender schooling inequality during the last two decades. As the 2020 UNESCO Global Gender Education Monitoring Report notes that ‘there has been a generational leap in access to […]
May 16, 2021
Primary and secondary education
THE INCIDENCE AND PATTERNS OF PRIVATE SCHOOLING PROVISION IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA
Concerns about growing educational privatisation in SSA have become more pervasive during the last decade mainly because rapidly increasing private sector involvement in education provision is viewed by many as undermining the attainment of Education for All and other education-related Sustainable Development Goals. Proponents of private sector provision, on the other hand, contend that the […]
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- Primary and secondary education (51)
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- Vocational training and skills development (38)
- Teachers (16)
- The impact of HIV/AIDS on education (18)
- Educational outcomes and labour market analysis (11)
- Industrial development and foreign investment (7)
- Agricultural research planning and management (3)
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- Capacity building and good governance (9)
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Primary and secondary education | 2022
Primary and secondary education | 2022
Primary and secondary education | 2022
Primary and secondary education | 2022