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Développer l'éducation post-primaire en Afrique subsaharienne : La soutenabilité financière comme référence pour évaluer les options

2008

Cette communication était comprise dans la session 4 : "La politique & la gouvernance et les coûts & le financement"; En 2007, l'Agence Française de Développement (AFD), en coopération avec la Banque mondiale, a lancé une étude qui examine les implications logistiques et financières associées à une expansion de la couverture de l'enseignement post-primaire dans les pays d'Afrique sub-saharienne. Ces pays sont déja, et vont être davantage encore dans les années à venir, exposés à des pressions croissantes pour étendre la couverture de leur enseignement secondaire et supérieur en raison de l'augmentation très significative du nombre de jeunes qui ont, ou vont avoir, achevé un cycle primaire (…

L'enjeu de la scolarisation en milieu rural et les défis du développement de la couverture scolaire au niveau du premier cycle du secondaire

2010

Enligne sur le site de l'AFD : http://www.afd-chine.org/jahia/webdav/site/afd/users/admirecherche/public/DT/DT_94_-_L_enjeu_de_la_scolarisation_en_milieu_rural_version_electronique.zip; Document de travail de l'Agence Française de Développement, n°94, mai 2010; Les progrès en cours dans la couverture de l'enseignement primaire dans les pays d'Afrique subsaharienne vont résulter d'une façon ou d'une autre dans une expansion significative du premier cycle de l'enseignement secondaire. Au-delà des besoins de réflexions sur une nouvelle politique sectorielle dans la plupart des pays, il importe de savoir que cette expansion touchera d'abord les populations rurales dans la mesure où la couvertur…

‘Ordinary’ and ‘diverse’ families : A case study of family discourses by Finnish early childhood education and care administrators

2021

The increased family diversity is a major global trend. Although family configurations are also diverse in contemporary Finland, it has been argued that Finnish family policies and institutional understanding of family life continues to focus on the heteronormative two-parent family with a native Finnish background. To address this issue, we analysed Finnish family discourses through qualitative interviews with early childhood education and care administrators (n = 47), applying a discourse analytic framework. Our results suggest that families are discussed through two divergent but interwoven discourses, i.e. the discourse of ordinary families and that of diverse families. The former focus…

A Revision of the Nearctic Species of Hecamedoides Hendel (Diptera: Ephydridae)

2008

Abstract Species of the shore-fly genus Hecamedoides Hendel from the Nearctic Region are revised, including description of H. lattini, new species (Virginia. Stafford: Falmouth (38°19.2′N, 77°28.1′W; Rappahannock River; 9 m). To provide context and also to facilitate identification, diagnoses are provided for the tribe Discocerinini and genus in addition to a key to the genera and species, H. lattini and H. unispinosus, occurring in the New World. Diagnostic characters, especially of the male terminalia, are illustrated, and distribution maps are also provided.

Ten simple rules for a successful EU Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral (MSCA) fellowship application.

2022

Poor nutritional quality of primary producers and zooplankton driven by eutrophication is mitigated at upper trophic levels

2022

Eutrophication and rising water temperature in freshwaters may increase the total production of a lake while simultaneously reducing the nutritional quality of food web components. We evaluated how cyanobacteria blooms, driven by agricultural eutrophication (in eutrophic Lake Köyliöjärvi) or global warming (in mesotrophic Lake Pyhäjärvi), influence the biomass and structure of phytoplankton, zooplankton, and fish communities. In terms of the nutritional value of food web components, we evaluated changes in the ω-3 and ω-6 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) of phytoplankton and consumers at different trophic levels. Meanwhile, the lakes did not differ in their biomasses of phytoplankton, zoo…

The Internet and SMEs in Sub-Saharan African Countries

2011

The Internet is a global network of interconnected computers using multiple Internet protocols (IP). Increasingly, it is being used to enhance business operation by both small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and large organizations around the world (Bunker and MacGregor, 2002; Turban, Lee, King, & Chung, Lee, J., King, D. & Chung 2004). One reason is that the Internet, when used to facilitate e-commerce and e-business, offers several benefits for the adopting organizations (Walczuch, den Braven, & Lundgren, 2000; Turban, et al, 2004). Such benefits include the following: 1) reducing distance barrier, 2) the development of new products and services, 3) opening direct links be…

Towards E-Government in a Sub-Saharan African Country

2006

ABSTRACT The use of information communication technologies (ICT) in governance is growing rapidly in many parts of the world. Developing countries in Africa are also making efforts to harness the new technology. In this paper, we provide useful insights regarding the impediments and initiatives of e-government in Nigeria, a Sub-Saharan African (SSA) country. The main problems facing the emergence of e-government in Nigeria have their roots in socioeconomic inadequacies that have plagued several countries in the SSA region. Some of the problems discussed include poor organizational skills, attitudinal problems, inadequate infrastructural support, and poor or unavailable human capital resourc…

Subsidization of higher education versus expansion of primary enrollments : what can a shift of resources achieve in Sub-Saharan Africa ?

1985

International audience; In many LDCs today, the distribution of public resources for education tends to be inefficient and inequitable in that subsidization often increases rather than decreases with the level of education. To improve efficiency and equity, a shift of resources from higher to primary education should therefore be considered. Such a shift would obviously imply an increase in the private cost of higher education, but its effect could be mitigated through a loan scheme. In this paper, our main purpose is to show what a cut in subsidies to higher education can achieve in terms of expanding primary enrollments. The results show that although the outcome differs from country to c…

Migrants’ economic integration : problematising economic citizenship

2021

Labour market policies to include migrants in their host societies through strategic integration activities usually relate host country belonging to labour market success, commodifying citizenship. Labour market success, however, is not “belonging;” raising the question of whether “economic citizenship” is a misnomer. National citizenships embed territorial, social and ethnic hierarchies in unequal ways. Migrants at the moment of their mobility are outside these national solidarities, and thus are commodified, with their rights depending on their labour market value. Access to national citizenship rights is an important structuring element in segmenting globalizing labour markets. peerRevie…