The Nigerian educational system has undoubtedly encountered a number of significant impediments in the last few decades and it continue to struggle with the implementation and assurance of educational and teaching quality because of lack of effective planning. A shortage of accurate statistical data, financial, qualified planners, poor national economic performance, unsuitable governing structu...

Because of various challenges that rural secondary schools in Zimbabwe face, such as isolation, recruiting and retention of personnel and sub-standard accommodation for teachers, among others, leaders at all levels of the education system are often required to design appropriate transformational strategies (Ncube,2014). This case study, whose purpose was to solicit views on how to transform rur...

Introduction ICT can be used to support learning in many different ways in schools. This extends beyond individual pupils' use of learning software on a computer to include, among other things, interactive presentations using touch sensitive whiteboards, specialist devices like data loggers for the collection of data in science lessons, email based applications to support learning communities a...

CONTEXT Organ shortage for transplantation is a crucial problem; educational interventions may increase donations and decrease opposition. OBJECTIVE To test the efficacy of an educational programme on opinions on organ transplantation and kidney donation. DESIGN AND PARTICIPANTS Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial: eight intervention and eight control schools were randomly selected from the...

In some American schools, about a fifth of the fathers have spent time in prison during their child’s primary education. We examine how variation across schools in the aggregation and concentration of the mass imprisonment of fathers is associated with their own children’s intergenerational educational outcomes and ‘‘spills over’’ into the attainments of other students. We assess the associatio...

In Europe, public schools are more and more going to be run as autonomous schools. From the point of view of the educational system, the current school reform is a process of decentralisation of competences and centralisation of control and regulations. At the level of schools as organizations, reforms concern organizational and pedagogical matters. Organizational autonomy and curriculum autono...

Since World War II, efforts to improve schools have numbered in the thousands. Most efforts have concentrated on improving the curriculum materials used in schools or on "training" teachers in new instructional methods. Many of these efforts have gone under the banner of "building instructional capacity," a term that for decades has been featured prominently in conversations about educational r...

Charter schools are publicly funded schools that are an integral part of the school choice movement, following a market-model of education based on autonomy, competition, and choice. However, charter schools are also mandated to adhere to all laws and regulations in the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) when educating students with disabilities. The education of students with d...

The effective delivery of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in English secondary schools lies beyond the authority and scope of traditional concepts of departmental management. Secondary schools that assume that ICT can be implemented through traditional management roles and departmental organisational structures are unlikely to be effective as these are too restrictive (Owen, 1992...