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Education
Needs and funding requirements (UNHCR Global Appeal 2016-2017)
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July 11, 2016

The humanitarian system at large is faced with a critical financial dilemma: while the numbers of people forcibly displaced across the world continue to rise, the funds available for humanitarian aid are not keeping up with the rapidly expanding needs. By the third quarter of 2015, 33 UN appeals were only 42 per cent funded,… Read more

displaced populations, Funding, refugees
Education
Finding durable solutions
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July 11, 2016

UNHCR has traditionally pursued three durable solutions for refugees: voluntary repatriation, local integration and third-country resettlement. Seeking and providing durable solutions for refugees is a key element of international protection and has been a core part of UNHCR’s mandate and work since its inception. The three traditional durable solutions are complementary. Implementing them in tandem benefits… Read more

conflict-affected states, displaced populations, refugee integration, refugees
Education
Where have all the teachers gone? Why there are never any teachers in Africa’s refugee camps and what can we do about it
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July 11, 2016

Where have all the teachers gone? Why there are never any teachers in Africa’s refugee camps and what we can do about it, is chapter 10 of Next steps in managing teacher migration: papers of the sixth Commonwealth research symposium on teacher mobility, recruitment and migration. When it is time to start formal education soon after… Read more

conflict-affected states, teacher retention, teaching
Civil Engagement in Higher Education and its role in Human & Social Development
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November 1, 2015

Over the past century the world has seen many social, economic and political transformations. It has transformed from a largely colonial era to a largely democratic one. Yet, while democratization of political culture guaranteed citizens’ rights and freedom, it did not result in democratization of learning and knowledge production. The change in education systems has… Read more

civil society engagement, Higher Education, social development
Education
On the Aristotelian origins of higher education
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October 20, 2015

The story of how the sciences began to understand themselves as independent fields of research starts by detaching them from philosophy. The identity of the science in question will then further develop as it writes its own history. Higher education studies are, in such reflections, understood as a relatively new field that has its beginnings… Read more

Antiquity, Aristotle, Higher Education, Plato
Education
Civil Engagement in higher education and its role in Human and Social Development
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September 28, 2015

This chapter looks at how the engagement of civil society organizations with the world of higher education has resulted in interesting trends in social policy formation and knowledge production. Illustrated through examples of effective engagement between higher education institutions and social and human development efforts of civil society – PRIA in Asia and The Afrikan… Read more

Civil society organisations, Engagement, Higher Education
Education
The World Bank and higher education in the developing world: The cases of Uganda and Thailand
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September 28, 2015

This paper calls attention to challenges developing nations face as they seek to strengthen universities, and their ability to contribute to social and economic development.  Two issues in particular are addressed in this chapter. First, developing nations face a monumental challenge in raising adequate funds for expanding the size, scope, and quality of their universities. Overcoming this… Read more

developing countries, Higher Education, world bank
Health
Les Gens du Riz (The Rice People)
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October 10, 2014

This is a chapter on Kissi Funerals in the region of Guekedou and Kissidougou. Whilst this is based on fieldwork conducted in 1945-6, many of the ritual practices and meanings were current and observed in Kissi villages in 1991-3. For the Kissi, every life has three critical moments: birth, initiation, death. The primary role of… Read more

Ebola
Health
Dying as Transformation to Ancestorhood: The Sherbro Coast of Sierra Leone
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October 10, 2014

People who live in the Sherbro coastal area of Sierra Leone have a social organization based upon descent from named ancestors and acestresses. Ancestors, the living, and those not yet born constitute a great chain of being. This continuum of existence is punctuated, and made discontinuous, by rites of passage (birth, puberty, death). Dying is… Read more

Ebola
A note on income and poverty of persons with disabilities in Metro Manila
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September 11, 2014

This chapter elaborates income and poverty related aspects of the analyses developed in the previous chapter. First, the differences in income level and poverty indices by disability are statistically examined. Second, determinants of income are singled out by estimation of the Mincer equation, which will be described shortly. Main conclusions are the followings: (1) the… Read more

Education
Schools for all: national planning in Lesotho
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August 1, 2014

This chapter is based on a review of developments towards inclusive education in Lesotho during the period 1990-1995. It draws upon the findings of a national feasibility study, and lessons learned from the work of the Special Education Curriculum Committee, which was established to promote cross-sectoral collaboration and to develop curriculum materials for teacher education on… Read more

curriculum, Teacher Education
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