Ensuring Education for All at the primary school level is not just a matter of recruiting enough teachers: they must be deployed effectively across the education system. This work presents four detailed studies, from countries with low net educational enrolment levels: Nigeria, Tanzania, Papua New Guinea and Pakistan.
Case Studies in Education is a new series of key papers focusing on innovations and challenges in education. Each case study presents and analyses a pertinent educational issue in a timely and brief manner.The series marks an important contribution to educational advancement of benefit to countries, agencies and organisations within the Commonwealth and beyond.Rapid advances in Information Technology (IT) pose new opportunities as well as challenges for every society. In the education sector, IT has enormous potential to help countries address issues of access to learning, quality of the teaching-learning process and management of education systems. Countries are therefore keen to make full use of this, in case they are sidelined in the quest for development. This case study was originally included in Issues in Education & Technology – Policy Guidelines and Strategies published to help countries make good policy choices and investment decisions. Much can be learned about the process by which Singapore has made appropriate use of technology for improving the management of its own education system.Now updated and re-published separately as a guide to good practice in the use of IT for management of education systems it is a useful and practical guide to ministries of education and other decision makers.
advanced society as far as the use of modern technology in general is concerned
. Yet the use of IT in education is driven by educational needs and considerations
rather than by mere faddism. This is a key principle that should be borne in ...
This publication looks at the role of information technology on the globalization process, and addresses its implication on the developing countries. The ten articles address various issues related to this, including the impact of information technology on multinational corporation; the implications of virtual organizations on workers; the illusion created by a global network as a socially productive technology; the domination of the developed world in the globalization process; globalization leading to modernization; the globalization of economies; opportunities for developing countries in the global process; information technology infrastructures; policies and plans influencing globalization.
All these types of information flows ensure that data and the technology through
which it is moved constitute one of the foundations of international commerce.
Information technology (IT) has been layered on top of the 66 Information
Systems ...
Researching the Challenges and Opportunities for International Teacher Recruitment and Retention : Report of the Fourth Commonwealth Teachers' Research Symposium Hosted by the National Education Association, Washington, DC, USA : 18-20 March 2009
Reports on the proceedings of the fourth Commonwealth Teachers' Research symposium, held in conjunction with the US National Education Association, which looked particularly at international recruitment and retention.
Reports on the proceedings of the fourth Commonwealth Teachers' Research symposium, held in conjunction with the US National Education Association, which looked particularly at international recruitment and retention.
