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The following summaries of development research have recently been added
to http://www.id21.org/education Click on the links to see the full
research highlight.

African distance learning: reaching parts other education systems cannot
reach?

Can non-formal radio and correspondence courses provide basic education
to Africans bypassed by the school system? What are the key constraints,
problems and success factors in the field of distance education in
Africa? Could greater commitment of resources to distance education plug
discriminatory gaps in African formal education systems?
http://www.id21.org/education/E4rs1g1.html

Secondary schools: second-class schooling? Reforming education for rural
girls

Does secondary education meet the needs of girls in rural Africa? What
is being done to make curricula more relevant to girls and to reduce the
excessive focus on examinations? Why have official statements on the
shortcomings of curricula and examinations not been translated into
policy changes?
http://www.id21.org/education/e2na1g1.html

All work and no play: economic liberalisation and child labour

How does globalisation affect child labour in developing countries? This
study assesses the evidence in Vietnam. It also asks whether the use of
trade sanctions on exports from developing countries to eradicate child
labour is likely to be successful.
http://www.id21.org/education/s7cee1g1.html

Born poor, forever poor? Intergenerational transmission of poverty

We know little about intergenerationally transmitted (IGT) poverty in
developing countries. In the absence of longitudinal data, how can we
better understand whether and how poverty is transmitted from older to
younger generations? Does it also move from younger to older
generations? Can we identify the points of transmission where IGT
processes can be affected by external factors?
http://www.id21.org/education/s5ckm1g1.html

Which way forward for teacher education in Lesotho? Exploring costs and
efficiencies

Like many developing countries, Lesotho gives high priority to improving
its education system. The government's targets by 2011 include universal
primary enrolment and improvements in higher secondary enrolment,
coverage of early childhood provision and national levels of basic
literacy. What implications do these targets have for teacher education?
Can the country afford the teachers it needs?
http://www.id21.org/education/E3kl1g1.html

Elementary science teaching in the Pacific: national, regional or
imported models?

Many of the Pacific's myriad microstates hope to emulate the high-tech
success of similarly resource-poor Taiwan. Are their elementary school
students getting the grounding in science to enable them to go on to
achieve national dreams? Should curricula be locally developed or
imported? How should teachers be trained and helped to develop
confidence in the classroom?
http://www.id21.org/education/E3nt1g2.html

Experiments in teacher training: improving primary science education in
Fiji

The value of quality science education to developing countries is widely
accepted and has prompted an investment in school science education. But
concerns about instructional quality and student achievement are
becoming acute. Why is there so much emphasis on learning by rote? Do
teachers lack confidence in their own understanding? How can their
training be improved?
http://www.id21.org/education/E3nt1g1.html

Friends in deed - preventing HIV through peer education in South African
schools

HIV is rampant among young people in South Africa, despite sound
knowledge about sexual health risks. Levels of perceived vulnerability
among this group are low and unprotected sex is common. Researchers from
the London School of Economics studied a participatory programme seeking
to empower young people to change gender norms as an HIV prevention
strategy.
http://www.id21.org/education/h5cc1g4.html


Teaching HIV a lesson - a link between education and the AIDS virus?

Are people who are less educated more likely to become HIV infected than
people with a higher level of education? And what can be done to help
those most at risk? Researchers from the London School of Hygiene and
Tropical Medicine looked for possible links between AIDS and education
in developing countries.
http://www.id21.org/education/h5jg1g2.html


Teaching AIDS: student teachers learn about HIV in Zimbabwe

Teachers are in an excellent position to pass information about HIV on
to their pupils. In 1994, the Zimbabwean Ministry of Higher Education
and Technology introduced a nationwide programme to train teachers in
the prevention of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and HIV. Four
years later, researchers evaluated the programme's success, on behalf of
UNICEF.
http://www.id21.org/education/E5tc1g1.html

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