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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Investing in education"”.
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Investing in Education: Venture Philanthropy and the Marketized Practice of Educational Improvement
… contemporary policymakers and philanthropists interested in fixing problems in urban education look to business practices and market-based reforms. Venture Philanthropy (VP), draws its practices directly from the financial sector, using strategic investment to increase the capacity and …
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Pathways of out-of-school youth and their re-entrance into the education training and development system or the labour market
The study is an investigation into the pathways of out-of-school youth and their re-entrance into the Education Training and Development (ETD) system or the labour market. In the study the pathways of youth who dropped out of school between grades 1 and 11 are traced as they seek re-entrance to the …
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The Influence of Home and School on Students’ Academic Performance:A Case Study of Wangingómbe District,Tanzania.
The study investigated “The Influence of Home and School on Students’ Academic Performance” in Wanging’ombe District. The main objective was to investigate the influence of home and school on students’ academic performance. The specific objectives were, to analyze the effect of availability and use …
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The Motivation and Challenges of Part Time Employment in the Private Secondary Schools: a Case Study of Private Secondary Schools in Dar Es Salaam
This study examined how part-time employment is perceived as an aspect of organizational change and how it challenges the management of the selected private secondary schools in the region of Dar-es-Salaam. It was necessitated by the need to determine the responses of school organizations to change …
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Educational decision-making in an era of AIDS
One of the ways in which AIDS is said to ravage the lives of young people is through its impact on education. Youth and their caregivers might respond to shortened life expectancy by investing less in schooling. No evidence has been presented for this hypothesis, however. Indeed, little is known …
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Exploring the financial literacy practices among selected youth entrepreneurs in Lusaka district, Zambia: a phenomenological perspective.
This study aimed to explore the financial literacy practices among selected youth entrepreneurs in Lusaka District, Zambia, from a phenomenological perspective. The objectives that guided the study were to: (1) establish the financial literacy practices among selected youth entrepreneurs in Lusaka …
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Teacher employability and prospects in Chipata compound of Lusaka, Zambia: exploring lived voices of unemployed teacher graduates.
Since the statistics on employment constitute one of the yardsticks in determining how well an economy is fairing, it is not surprising that tackling unemployment is a topmost agenda item for most countries, including Zambia. However, despite government’s renewed focus in tackling the problem in …
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Exploring the financial literacy practices among selected youth entrepreneurs in Lusaka district, Zambia: a phenomenological perspective.
This study aimed to explore the financial literacy practices among selected youth entrepreneurs in Lusaka District, Zambia, from a phenomenological perspective. The objectives that guided the study were to: (1) establish the financial literacy practices among selected youth entrepreneurs in Lusaka …
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The attrition levels of KwaZulu-natal nurses with specific reference to seeking employment opportunities in other countries and its implications on health services delivery within the province
The purpose of the study was to examine attrition levels of KwaZulu-Natai nurses with specific reference to those that seek employment opportunities in other countries. * The objectives of the study were to (a) examine the attrition levels of KwaZulu- Natal nurses in relation to seeking employment …
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Essays on Disability and the Labour Market
… The second chapter analyzes the variation in labour market outcomes across disabilities by representing disability as a bundle of characteristics. Rich with information on the characteristics of a disabling condition, I use the Participation and Activity Limitation Survey to compare the …
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The Challenge of Education and the Work of Non-Profits in Southeast Asia: Select Case Studies in Cambodia and the Philippines in Modern Times
… (NGO) called Build Your Future Today (BFT) in Cambodia and a non-profit social enterprise called Paradise Ranch (PR) in the Philippines. Both entities, in one way or another, focus on educational improvement—BFT by teaching knowledge leading to self-sustaining enterprises and PR by educating …
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Labour Market and Non-labour Market Outcomes of Education in Bangladesh: Does Education Matter in the Formation of Outcomes in Adulthood?
What is the purpose of education? Is it to find a job and earn money? Or is it also to become more civically engaged and more aware about the responsibility of voting? These are some of the underlying questions that motivate this thesis, whereby I use the motivation for what purposes we expect …