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Textbooks and school library provision in secondary education in Sub-Saharan Africa.
This study discusses secondary textbook and school library availability in Africa, its cost and financing, and its distribution and publishing. The study objective is to analyze the issues and provide some options and strategies for improvement. Reforms are urgently required in the secondary school...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Washington, D.C. :
World Bank,
©2008.
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| Colección: | World Bank working paper ;
no. 126. Africa Region human development series. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Methodology and Constraints
- Secondary Textbooks
- Textbook Requirements and Costs in Secondary Education
- Different Types of Secondary Education
- Variations in Secondary Textbook Requirements and Costs
- Average Textbook Prices and the Causes of Variation
- Secondary Textbook Financing
- Sources of Finance for Secondary Textbooks
- Producer versus Consumer Funding
- Principles of Effective Textbook Financing
- Textbook Cost Reduction Strategies
- Textbook Rental Schemes and Textbook Revolving Funds
- The Importance of the Secondhand Textbook Market
- Piracy and Pamphlets
- Textbooks as a Percentage of Secondary Education Costs: A Case Study from Lesotho
- Textbooks as a Percentage of Secondary Education Costs: A Case Study from Uganda
- Textbook Financing in Francophone Countries
- Secondary Textbooks Availability
- Textbook Availability in Uganda (2002/03)
- Textbook Availability in Lesotho (2003)
- Textbook Availability in Zambia (2002 and 2005)
- Textbook Availability in Mozambique (2000/2001)
- Notes on Textbook Availability in Other Countries
- Approved Textbook Lists
- Approved Secondary Textbook Lists
- Rationale for Approved Textbook Lists
- Distribution Issues for Secondary Textbooks
- Current Patterns of Secondary Textbook Distribution
- Traditional Problems with State Textbook Distribution
- Re-Creating National Bookseller Networks
- Current Secondary Textbook Distribution Issues
- Secondary Textbook Authorship and Publishing
- Secondary School Textbook Publishing in Francophone Africa
- Secondary School Textbook Publishing in Anglophone Africa
- Secondary School Libraries
- Secondary School Libraries in Sub-Saharan Africa
- Secondary School Library Provision
- Financing Secondary School Libraries
- Other Characteristics of Secondary School Libraries
- Linkages to National Library Systems
- School Library Management
- Distribution Issues
- School Library Policy Issues
- School Library Cost Implications
- Towards an Effective Strategy for Secondary Textbooks and Libraries
- The Uganda Textbook and School Library Proposal
- Textbook Rental Schemes
- Other Forms of Textbook Cost Reductions
- A Schematic Instructional Materials Budget
- Secondary School Libraries, Reading Books and Reference Materials
- Recommendations
- Annex: Senegal Textbook Committee
- Secondary Textbook Requirements and Costs in Selected Countries
- Average Unit Textbook Costs by Grade Levels in Selected Countries (U.S. dollars)
- Simplified Accounts of a Church School
- Simplified Accounts of a Government of Lesotho (GoL) School
- Purchasing Power of School Textbook Budgets (based on 11 Uganda Schools)
- Textbook Availability in Lesotho Schools (2003)
- Secondary Textbook Distribution Systems in Selected Countries
- Cost of Basic Textbook Provision at One School in Uganda for S1 to S6 (2002)
- National Cost of Basic Textbook Provision for S1 to S6
- Unit Costs per Student of Basic Textbook Provision (including the cost of provision of teachers' copies)
- Cash Flow by Grade Levels in a Schematic Full Textbook Rental Scheme
- Cash Flow Summary of Table 11 for All Grades
- Example of Alternative Page Requirements
- Typical Annual Rental Fee Formula.