ICT Policy for Basic Education in Tanzania

2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 20-29
Author(s):  
Inderjeet Singh Sodhi
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
World Bank ◽  
Basic Education ◽  
Education Sector ◽  
Technological Changes ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Level Of Education ◽  
Primary Level ◽  
The Government ◽  
Ict Policy

In developing countries, ICT is playing an important role in economic growth and nation-building. New emerging technological changes have made services enabled by ICT a pre-requisite for development of the education sector because it enables teachers, students and administrators to share and exchange information and knowledge. ICT is vital for the sustainable development of education particularly in developing countries like Tanzania where awareness and development is taking place after independence. On the guidelines of World Bank and UNESCO, many developing countries have formulated and implemented ICT Policy for education. To this course, several initiatives have been designed, devised and developed by the Government of Tanzania. The ICT Policy for Basic Education (2007) is a set of guidelines desired to position Tanzania at the universal level for which education is being implemented with concerted efforts for pre-primary, primary, secondary and vocational education. One of the major motivations for drawing this policy has been the desire to transform Tanzania from a knowledge driven society to information and digital driven society. This article delves the role played by ICT in the education sector particularly at the primary level and brings out the objectives, issues, and challenges in basic education that have been done so far in Tanzania. Although significant improvements have taken place in Tanzania, a lot more has to be done in primary level of education if it needs to compete favourably at an African and international stage.

M-Government and Its Application on Public Service Delivery

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Vannie Naidoo ◽  
Thokozani Ian Nzimakwe
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Global Change ◽  
Service Delivery ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Technological Changes ◽  
Government Sector ◽  
The Government ◽  
Improve Service Delivery

Technology has taken over every aspect of society. It is only fitting that governments embrace technological changes in society and develop m-government for the technologically savvy people of today's society. A global change that is transforming the government sector is the use of ICTs to improve service delivery. In this chapter, the following themes will be investigated and discussed: e-government, defining mobile government, different perspectives on mobile government, mobile government in developed countries, mobile government in developing countries, benefits and limitations of mobile government, way forward in implementing mobile government, and future research in areas of mobile government.

Mother Tongue in Indigenous Script as Medium of Instruction

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-89
Author(s):  
Ruchira Das
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
West Bengal ◽  
Mother Tongue ◽  
Medium Of Instruction ◽  
Tribal Community ◽  
Level Of Education ◽  
Primary Level ◽  
The Government ◽  
The City

Olchiki is the indigenous script of Santals, a dominant tribal community of West Bengal, formulated to promote and represent ‘adi’ cultural heritage and traditions in their mother tongue Santali. The script was recognised by the Government of West Bengal in 1978 and was introduced at the primary level of education. However, there have been contestations around its appropriateness as the medium of instruction for the migrant tribal community in the emerging context of the city and globalisation. These discourses have led to the formation of two distinct groups—those who support the introduction of Santali language in Olchiki as a means to formal education and those who resist usage of its script for schooling. In my article, I will present these conflicting views prevailing among the migrant Santals of a settlement called Santragachi, in Kolkata.

scholarly journals Trends in Life Expectancy by Level of Education and Occupational Social Class in Finland 1981-2000

2006 ◽  
pp. 27-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tapani Valkonen ◽  
Pekka Martikainen
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Social Class ◽  
Life Expectancy ◽  
Basic Education ◽  
Public Health Programme ◽  
Level Of Education ◽  
Health Target ◽  
Occupational Social Class ◽  
The Difference ◽  
The Government

The study analyses trends in life expectancy by level of education and by occupational social class in Finland from 1981 to 2000 to assess to what extent these trends have been in accordance with the target of reducing socioeconomic differences in life expectancy set in the Government public health programme. The study is based on the census records for the population aged 35 or over, which have been linked to the death records for the years 1981 to 2000. The results show that, contrary to the public health target, the difference in the life expectancy between persons with tertiary and basic education and that between upper non-manual and manual occupational classes increased during the 1990s. Differences in the trends in mortality from alcohol-related causes of death and from other cancers than lung cancer accounted for most the increase in the socioeconomic gap among men. Different from the 1980s changes in cardiovascular mortality did not contribute to the increase in the socioeconomic gap. Among women the increase in the socioeconomic gap was mainly due to the heterogeneous group of other diseases and cancers other than lung and breast cancer

scholarly journals Assessment of relationship between management policies and transfer of skills

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 355-368
Author(s):  
Frasiah Wangari Mburu ◽  
Alice W. Kamau ◽  
Stephen M. Macharia
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Climate ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Basic Education ◽  
Policy Formulation ◽  
Education Sector ◽  
P Value ◽  
Transfer Of Skills ◽  
Management Policies ◽  
The Government ◽  
School Heads

Despite heavy investments in training and development, low-quality education standards and challenges in management practices have been a sticky problem in the Kenyan education sector. Organization Theory guided the main aim of this study in establishing the relationship between management policies and transfer of skills for public secondary school headteachers in schools management. The study adopted a descriptive research design. Questionnaires were used to collect quantitative and qualitative data. Data were analyzed through descriptive and inferential statistics. The study population comprised 226 headteachers.  A mixture of stratified random sampling and census study was adopted in sampling 69 respondents. The results established that management policies explained a 23.4% variation in the transfer of skills for school heads. ?1 = 0.536 and p-value = 0.000 (p<0.05) indicated that management policies had positive and significant effects on transfer of skills. The study established that unsupportive policies like the Students Council, two centers of power, strict policies, and lack of inclusivity in policy formulation adversely affected school heads in implementing learned skills. The study recommends fair representation of all categories of education stakeholders in policies review and formulation to alleviate challenges associated with management policies to enhance the transfer of skills. The Government should address the issue of two centers of power in the public basic education sector. The paper sought to call the attention of the professional development trainers to exercise follow-ups to assess post-training behavioral outcomes in the context of organizational climate.

scholarly journals Al-Qur’an dan Teori Pengetahuan: Melacak Formula Epistemologi dalam Al-Qur’an dan Implikasinya Terhadap Pendidikan Islam

2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 157-173
Author(s):  
Eko Sumadi
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Basic Education ◽  
Public Trust ◽  
Islamic Education ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Level Of Education ◽  
Philosophical Beliefs ◽  
National Qualifications Framework ◽  
The Government

Abstract: The government has forced the Indonesian National Qualifications Framework (KKNI) into the curriculum of every level of education, from basic education to higher education. Thus, the influence of the demands of society, political maps, social and economic conditions is far more dominant in determining the direction of education in Indonesia than the system of public trust that accumulates in its philosophical view. Important philosophical beliefs as a counterweight and also determine the direction of the pace of education, so that educational institutions do not necessarily only function as producers of labor. On the awareness of the importance of the philosophical dimension in determining the direction of education (Islam), there are still parties (Muslims) who are allergic to even consider sinful, in touch with philosophy with all its rules. This article will answer the question; How is the construction of epistemology of knowledge according to the Qur'an and what are the implications of the epistemology for Islamic education? Kata Kunci: Epistemologi, Pendidikan Islam, dan Al-Qur’an

scholarly journals Handwritten Character Recognition on Android for Basic Education Using Convolutional Neural Network

Electronics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (8) ◽  
pp. 904
Author(s):  
Thi Thi Zin ◽  
Shin Thant ◽  
Moe Zet Pwint ◽  
Tsugunobu Ogino
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Convolutional Neural Network ◽  
Character Recognition ◽  
Basic Education ◽  
Character Segmentation ◽  
Primary Level ◽  
Segmentation Methods ◽  
Self Learning ◽  
Incorrect Classification

An international initiative called Education for All (EFA) aims to create an environment in which everyone in the world can get an education. Especially in developing countries, many children lack access to a quality education. Therefore, we propose an offline self-learning application to learn written English and basic calculation for primary level students. It can also be used as a supplement for teachers to make the learning environment more interactive and interesting. In our proposed system, handwritten characters or words written on tablets were saved as input images. Then, we performed character segmentation by using our proposed character segmentation methods. For the character recognition, the Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) was used for recognizing segmented characters. For building our own dataset, handwritten data were collected from primary level students in developing countries. The network model was trained on a high-end machine to reduce the workload on the Android tablet. Various types of classifiers (digit and special characters, uppercase letters, lowercase letters, etc.) were created in order to reduce the incorrect classification. According to our experimental results, the proposed system achieved 95.6% on the 1000 randomly selected words and 98.7% for each character.

scholarly journals A Study on NGO-Donor Relations in Basic Education Sector: Case of Pakistan

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 38-41
Author(s):  
Warda Gul ◽  
Kong FanBin
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Research Methodology ◽  
Basic Education ◽  
Education Sector ◽  
Donor Relations ◽  
Qualitative Research Methodology ◽  
The World ◽  
The Government ◽  
Donor Agencies ◽  
Foreign Donor

NGOs gained the importance in the last decades all over the world and the same is true with the case of Pakistan. NGOs are participating in the education sector. This paper studies the involvement of NGOs in the basic education sector, being dependent on the foreign donor agencies. NGOs have to follow the agenda of donors that can create tension with the government. This paper applies qualitative research methodology to study the relationships between donors and NGOs. The findings of this study show that donors are mostly following market-based approach and neo-liberal agenda that results in inequalities for people. Therefore, to perform their duty rightly, NGOs should look for sustainable sources of finances.

scholarly journals Ocjena upravljanja tehnološkim promjenama u tijelima državne uprave Republike Hrvatske

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 91
Author(s):  
Gordana Dukić ◽  
Darko Dukić ◽  
Neven Bertović
Keyword(s):  
Cluster Analysis ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Significant Relationship ◽  
Technological Changes ◽  
Government Employees ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Level Of Education ◽  
State Administration ◽  
The Government ◽  
Specific Cluster

The aim of this paper was to explore the management of technological changes in Croatian state administration bodies. The study was based on government employees' attitudes. Due to the close connection between technological changes and e-government, their satisfaction with e-services is also examined in the study. According to the results, the respondents were only slightly satisfied with the technological changes in their organizations and e-services provided by the government. The attitudes of employees with regard to age, gender, level of education and position within the institution were quite similar. The analysis further revealed that government employees are mostly dissatisfied with the management of technological changes. In addition, a k-means cluster analysis was used to classify respondents into two groups according to their satisfaction levels. However, there was no significant relationship between employees’ characteristics and their belonging to a specific cluster. Since the management of technological changes in public administration has been insufficiently explored, this study provides valuable information for scholars, policy makers and practitioners.

Challenges of the Crisis: How to Measure Sustainable Development?

2015 ◽  
pp. 147-160 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Bobylev ◽  
N. Zubarevich ◽  
S. Solovyeva
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
World Bank ◽  
Environmental Indicators ◽  
Calculation Methods ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Development Index ◽  
Development Indicators ◽  
Sustainable Development Indicators ◽  
Adjusted Net Savings

The article emphasizes the fact that traditional socio-economic indicators do not reflect the challenges of sustainable development adequately, and this is particularly true for the widely-used GDP indicator. In this connection the elaboration of sustainable development indicators is needed, taking into account economic, social and environmental factors. For Russia, adaptation and use of concepts and basic principles of calculation methods for adjusted net savings index (World Bank) and human development index (UNDP) as integral indicators can be promising. The authors have developed the sustainable development index for Russia, which aggregates and allows taking into account balanced economic, social and environmental indicators.

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