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South Africa�s provincial education departments have been reduced to provincial administrations, for reasons that include the powerful role national government plays in delivering education services. This book looks in detail at education spending and asks: Can we afford to maintain administrations that cannot possibly change the course of poor quality education and engineer a brighter future for our poor and deprived learners? The authors believe this question and the future role of provincial education departments need to be discussed, openly and publicly, without delay.

Corporate school reform is a global movement that is gaining a growing momentum. Central to this reform agenda is personalized learning, presented by its advocates as a better alternative to the traditional model of schooling. In spite of its appealing possibilities for education and society, scholars in countries such as the United States and the United Kingdom have criticized personalized learning for its reductive conceptualization of education. Focusing critically on the new Education Plan of British Columbia, which places personalized learning at its core, this paper examines the genealogy of the Education Plan and discusses its implications for public education in the province. Through construction of a network of actors and content analysis of key documents produced by the public and private sectors, the paper shows that the vision of the Education Plan is largely influenced by a broader neoliberalism-oriented social imagination reinforced by a network of political, social, and economic actors. The analysis shows that this vision for education promotes a perception of education primarily conceptualized in narrow economic terms. The discourse and practice employed to promote personalized learning contribute to turning education into a customizable consumer product, reduce the notion of "learning" to a list of skills and attributes, disregard the significant importance of socio-cultural contexts in teaching and learning, and minimize the crucial role of the teacher. The article concludes that the Education Plan has created a conducive environment for the emergence of customized privatization in public education in the province.

This article deepens in the differences in educational development between the Ecuadorian provinces and in their evolution over time by estimating the Provincial-level Education Index. This index is built using the micro-databases of the two latest rounds of the Ecuador`s Living Standards Measurement Survey (2005-2006 and 2013-2014). The results show an overall increase in the educational development of the Ecuadorian provinces, as well as a slight reduction in inequality. However, differences between them continue to exist. Underlying our results, which are consistent with the provincial production structure and socioeconomic context, some public policies seem to affect the educational sector, as their impact has been evidenced during the period covered in this research.

This statistical bulletin provides a comprehensive collection of demographic and resource data for the provinces of the Solomon Islands. It covers population, education, health and employment data as well as information about the economy, finance and business. In many cases data are given for the past ten years or more. (DÜI-Bsn)

Place identity attracts tourists visiting and touching the authentic beauty of attractions. It is a powerful instrument for symbolic meanings of landscape to embed at-homeness. The purpose of this study was to innovate a process of identified tourist attraction management based environmental education in a provincial community by multi-method research design. The research results indicated that the innovation regarding the process of identified tourist attraction management based environmental education was mainly comprised of five factors including (1) Sustainable Tourism, (2) Identification of Tourist Attractions, (3) Occupational Promotion, (4) Environmental Actualization, and (5) Environmental Participatory Management. The output appeared highly environmental literacy and the outcome reached tourist impressions that impact to community income and sustainable environments.

AusAID (Australian Government) ; These briefs provide statistics on 39 socio-economic indicators encompassing several dimensions of wellbeing, including poverty and inequality, food security, labor market outcomes, sectoral distribution of employment, gender, education, health, and access to services and infrastructure. This compendium of key indicators aims to serve three main purposes. First, it provides a snap-shot of the development performance of each province and benchmarks it to that of other provinces and of nation as whole. This comparative perspective is provided with a view to assist policy makers and other development actors in their efforts to improve development effectiveness, particularly by providing evidence to prioritize and better target interventions at the provincial level. Second, by unbundling variations in development outcomes at the sub-national level, these provincial briefs complement and enrich the aggregate description of well being presented in the poverty status report. Third, these indicators are expected to provide provincial baselines to be updated by future rounds of the National Risk and Vulnerability Assessment (NRVA), in addition to serving as a reference for measures obtained from other data sources.

published_or_final_version ; Politics and Public Administration ; Doctoral ; Doctor of Philosophy