Download or read book Struggling to Make the Grade A Review of the Causes and Consequences of the Weak Outcomes of South Africa s Education System written by Mr.Montfort Mlachila and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2019-03-01 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While South Africa has made significant improvements in basic and tertiary education enrollment, the country still suffers from significant challenges in the quality of educational achievement by almost any international metric. The paper finds that money is clearly not the main issue since the South Africa’s education budget is comparable to OECD countries as a percent of GDP and exceeds that of most peer sub-Saharan African countries in per capita terms. The main explanatory factors are complex and multifaceted, and are associated with insufficient subject knowledge of some teachers, history, race, language, geographic location, and socio-economic status. Low educational achievement contributes to low productivity growth, and high levels of poverty, unemployment, and inequality. Drawing on the literature, the paper sketches some policy considerations to guide the debate on what works and what does not.
Download or read book Developing Shaping and Growing Entrepreneurship written by Alain Fayolle and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2015-02-27 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are many factors involved in becoming an effective entrepreneur. The process of recognizing opportunities and nurturing new ventures must take into account both internal decision-making practice and external environmental influence.
Download or read book Basic Education Rights Handbook written by Faranaaz Veriava and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Becoming an Entrepreneur written by Susanne Weber and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-05-05 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides new insights into the important field of Entrepreneurship Education. The editors pick up Fayolle’s invitation: “How can we learn from ‘institutional’ culture?” and translate it to a variety of aspects of learning to start-up. From the perspective of Human Resource Education and Management (Wirtschaftspädagogik) the authors shed light into the socio-cultural system of entrepreneurship education. They start with mapping out its challenges. They discuss context factors like political regimes affecting entrepreneurial activities, consider goals including moral awareness, introduce ideas of modeling entre- and intrapreneurial competencies, suggest teaching-learning-strategies, discuss evaluation procedures and introduce case studies of entrepreneurship education in different countries for different study levels. All in all this book stimulates and supports the challenges of educators, students, and practitioners (human resource managers, consultants, principals, teachers, and trainers) to introduce into the varying contexts of entrepreneurship education content specific, procedural, causal elements necessary for starting and maintaining an enterprise.
Download or read book Higher Education Pathways written by Paul Ashwin and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2018-12-13 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In what ways does access to undergraduate education have a transformative impact on people and societies? What conditions are required for this impact to occur? What are the pathways from an undergraduate education to the public good, including inclusive economic development? These questions have particular resonance in the South African higher education context, which is attempting to tackle the challenges of widening access and improving completion rates in in a system in which the segregations of the apartheid years are still apparent. Higher education is recognised in core legislation as having a distinctive and crucial role in building post-apartheid society. Undergraduate education is seen as central to addressing skills shortages in South Africa. It is also seen to yield significant social returns, including a consistent positive impact on societal institutions and the development of a range of capabilities that have public, as well as private, benefits. This book offers comprehensive contemporary evidence that allows for a fresh engagement with these pressing issues.
Download or read book Twenty Years of Education Transformation in Gauteng 1994 to 2014 written by Maringe, Felix and published by African Minds. This book was released on 2015-05-05 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty Years of Education Transformation in Gauteng 1994 to 2014: An Independent Review presents a collection of 15 important essays on different aspects of education in Gauteng since the advent of democracy in 1994. These essays talk to what a provincial education department does and how and why it does these things - whether it be about policy, resourcing or implementing projects. Each essay is written by one or more specialist in the relevant focus area. The book is written to be accessible to the general reader as well as being informative and an essential resource for the specialist reader. It sheds light on aspects of how a provincial department operates and why and with what consequences certain decisions have been made in education over the last 20 turbulent years, both nationally and provincially. There has been no attempt to fit the book's chapters into a particular ideological or educational paradigm, and as a result the reader will find differing views on various aspects of the Gauteng Department of Education's present and past. We leave the reader to decide to what extent the GDE has fulfilled its educational mandate over the last 20 years.
Download or read book World Development Report 2009 written by World Bank and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2008-11-04 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rising densities of human settlements, migration and transport to reduce distances to market, and specialization and trade facilitated by fewer international divisions are central to economic development. The transformations along these three dimensions density, distance, and division are most noticeable in North America, Western Europe, and Japan, but countries in Asia and Eastern Europe are changing in ways similar in scope and speed. 'World Development Report 2009: Reshaping Economic Geography' concludes that these spatial transformations are essential, and should be encouraged. The conclusion is not without controversy. Slum-dwellers now number a billion, but the rush to cities continues. Globalization is believed to benefit many, but not the billion people living in lagging areas of developing nations. High poverty and mortality persist among the world's 'bottom billion', while others grow wealthier and live longer lives. Concern for these three billion often comes with the prescription that growth must be made spatially balanced. The WDR has a different message: economic growth is seldom balanced, and efforts to spread it out prematurely will jeopardize progress. The Report: documents how production becomes more concentrated spatially as economies grow. proposes economic integration as the principle for promoting successful spatial transformations. revisits the debates on urbanization, territorial development, and regional integration and shows how today's developers can reshape economic geography.
Download or read book Women in STEM Disciplines written by Claudine Schmuck and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-09-06 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the findings of a survey that analyzes a unique set of data in science and technolog and provides a clear and simple synthesis of heterogeneous databases on the gender gap in the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) setting, helping readers understand key trends and developments. The need for more women in innovative fields, particularly with regard to STEM-based innovations, has now been broadly recognized. The book provides insights into both the education and employment of women in STEM. It investigates how the gender gap has evolved among STEM graduates and professionals around the world, drawing on specific data from public and private databases. As such, the book provides readers an understanding of how the so-called ‘leaky pipeline’ operates, and of how more women than men drop out of STEM studies and jobs by geographical area.
Download or read book Enterprise Entrepreneurship and Innovation written by Robin Lowe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-06-25 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enterprise, Entrepreneurship and Innovation: Concepts, Contexts and Commercialisation provides readers with an accessible and readable introduction to the various dimensions of entrepreneurship and market innovation. It has a clear structure that is easy for the reader to follow and it focuses on enterprising behaviour. The text contains: * case studies and ‘pause and reflect’ situations for the entrepreneur to deliberate on the information they have available before making their decision. This helps to emphasise the point that there are few simple and straightforward decisions closely reflecting decisions in ‘real life’. * integrative personal development activities that provide a basis for readers to reflect on the learning of the chapters and develop a personal development strategy to increase their ability to become more entrepreneurial and improve their ability to manage market innovation. * an accompanying website giving students and lecturers access to additional resources in order to explore the subject further. A full set of powerpoint slides plus exercises is included, plus suggestions for the use in class of the case studies and other illustrations. Students can access further learning resources to build up their knowledge of innovation situations using the hotlinks to useful websites that will add further depth and bring up to date the case studies and illustrations. Enterprise, Entrepreneurship and Innovation: Concepts, Contexts and Commercialisation shows: * how to understand and acquire the entrepreneur’s skills, attitudes and knowledge * the techniques needed to generate new business and create a new organisation * how to become more innovative, self reliant, and opportunistic. * the learning and decision-making processes of entrepreneurs
Download or read book Change Management in TVET Colleges written by Andre Kraak and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2016-07-25 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) college environment is marked by increasingly stark juxtapositions between what needs to be achieved in the post-school education sector and the increasing difficulty of current conditions. The triple challenge of poverty, inequality and unemployment weighs heavily on the social, political and economic fabric of the country and expectations are high that the TVET colleges can make a pivotal contribution to counter these challenges. Despite laudable increases in TVET enrolment, the education system needs to work harder to accommodate the weight of demand for post school further education and training (FET) band qualifications from young people not in education, employment or training. At the same time, it is vital to secure adequate quality in TVET programmes which depend so much on the competence and commitment of college lecturers.
Download or read book Becoming a teacher written by Josef de Beer and published by AOSIS. This book was released on 2020-12-31 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book disseminates original research on learning in and from practice in pre-service teacher education. Authors such as Lederman and Lederman describe the student teaching practicum (or work-integrated learning [WIL]), which is an essential component of pre-service teacher education, as the ‘elephant in the room’. These authors note that 'the capstone experience in any teacher education programme is the student teaching practicum… [a]fter all, this is where the rubber hits the road'. However, many teacher educators will agree that this WIL component is sometimes very insufficient in assisting the student teacher to develop their own footing and voice as a teacher. This is the ‘gap’ that this research book addresses. Most of the chapters in the book report empirical data, with the exception of two chapters that can be categorized as systematic reviews. WIL is addressed from various angles in the chapters. Chapter 6 focuses on research related to what makes Finnish teacher education so effective, and in Chapter 4 researchers of the University of Johannesburg disseminate their findings on establishing a teaching school (based on Finnish insights) in Johannesburg. Chapter 3 highlights the challenges faced in open-and distance learning teacher education contexts. Several of the chapters disseminate research findings on alternative interventions to classic WIL, namely, where “safe spaces” or laboratories are created for student teachers to learn and grow professionally. These could either be simulations, such as software programmes and avatars in the intervention described in Chapter 2; student excursions, as the findings in chapters 5, 7 and 10 portray; or alternative approaches to WIL (e.g. Chapters 11 and 12). The book is devoted to scholarship in the field of pre-service teacher education. The target audience is scholars working in the fields of pre-service teacher education, work-integrated learning, and self-directed learning. The book makes a unique contribution in terms of firstly its extensive use of Cultural-Historical Activity Theory as a research lens, and secondly in drawing on various theoretical frameworks. Both quantitative and qualitative research informed the findings of the book.
Download or read book Entrepreneurship written by Gideon Nieman and published by Van Schaik Publishers. This book was released on 2003 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Entrepreneurship education has experienced remarkable growth in the last three decades, and need for a major work on the subject soon became apparent. The title is divided into six parts.
Download or read book The Principal as Instructional Leader written by Sally J. Zepeda and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-09 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2007. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Download or read book Entrepreneurship written by Boris Urban and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2016-01-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Oxford University Press Southern Africa 100 years"--Cover
Download or read book Entrepreneurship Education written by Gerald E. Hills and published by Ashgate Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Resumen: Missing Links in Entrepreneurship Research / Karl H. Vesper / - Small Business versus Entrepreneurship Revisited / C. Howard Watson / - Entrepreneurship Education in the Nineties: Revisited / W.E. McMullan, L.M. Gillin / - Education for Entrepreneurial Competency: a Theory-based Activity Approach / James O. Fiet / - Entrepreneurship Education: an Integrated Approach Using an Experimental Learning Paradigm / JoAnn C. Carland, James W. Carland / - The KUBUS® System - an Holistic Approach to Enterprise and Entrepreneurship / Martin Guedalla / - Entrepreneurship and Higher Education from Real-life Context to Pedagogical Challenge / Bertrand Ducheneaut / - An Empirical Approach to Entrepreneurial-learning Styles / Thomas A. Ulrich / - Training for Successful Entrepreneurship Careers in the Creative Arts / Harold P. Welsch, Jill R. Kickul / - The Perceived Needs, Benefits and Potential Target Markets for Entrepreneuship Education / Sumaria Mohan-Neill / - Developing a Corporate Entrepreneurship Training Program / Donald F. Kuratko, Kelli M. Hurley, Jeffrey S. Hornsby / - Becoming a Successful Corporate Entrepreneur / Peter A. Koen / - Curriculum Development for Australian Family Business Education and Training / George Tanewski, Claudio Romano, Xueli Huang, Kosmas Smyrnios / - Entrepreneurship Education for Professionally Qualified People / Cecile Nieuwenhuizen, Albert van Niekerk /- Youthful Enthusiasm and Market Realities: Matching Students with Businesses in a Global Economy / Dusty Bodie, Kevin Learned, Nancy K. Napier / - Entrepreneurship - an Introduction: they said 'don't do it' / Alison Morrison / - Establishing a Cross-faculty Entrepreneurship Program for Undergraduates / Mike Yendell / - Stimulating and Fostering Entrepreneurship Through University Training - Learning Within an Organizing Context / Bengt Johannisson, Dan Halvarsson / - University-based Entrepreneurial Outreach: a Case Study of the Midwest Entrepreneurial.
Download or read book Applied Business Research written by R. Y. Cavana and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Include[s]: the main research philosophies and paradigms; preparing research proposals; evaluating business research articles and reports; a deeper examination of the quantitative research applications and methods; a more integrated and practical coverage of qualitative research; Australian and New Zealand examples of business research; and a fuller coverage of ethics in business research"--Pref.
Download or read book Higher Education Transformation written by Nico Cloete and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
