December 2011
Re-thinking school-university collaboration: Agenda for the 21st century
Collaboration is a hard and challenging endeavor. It takes all the key players to make it happen. This paper discusses our current thinking about school-university collaboration. In it, we define what collaboration involves in the context of universities and schools. Next, we discuss what we believe are the essential benefits of effective collaboration to both universities and schools. Further, we explore the major...
December 2011
Comparative study of pre-service teacher education programme at secondary stage in Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka
The present research work has studied and compared the different issues of pre-service teacher education programme in India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Pakistan. The data were collected from 24 principals, 88 teacher educators and 157 student teachers from institutions and universities where Bachelor of Education (B.Ed.) course were. The data were also collected from secondary sources. The descriptive analysis was...
November 2011
Can Information and Communications Technology application contribute to poverty reduction? Lessons from Nigeria
There is a growing optimism among international organizations such as United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) that Information and Communication Technology (ICT) can transform developing countries such as Nigeria to developed ones in a relatively short time. Experiences from Asian and European countries such as India, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Thailand, Serbia and Ukraine tend to confirm this claim. However, there are...
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