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The Remedial Programme for Out-of-School and Drop-Out Children in Rwanda
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Kanamugire, Camille; Rutakamize, Joseph – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2008
This article discusses an educational practice that has been introduced in Rwanda, which aims to bring back into the formal education system children who are out-of-school or unschooled, even though they are over the legal enrolment age. The authors analyse this intensive programme, designed for children at that age and adapted to their daily…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Educational Innovation
Student Flows and Employment Opportunities before and after Implementation of a Third Year in Vocational Programmes at Upper Secondary School
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Murray, Asa; Sundin, Sven – European Journal of Vocational Training, 2008
The present study describes students flows before and after the latest reform of upper secondary school in which a third year as well as a new grading system and new entrance requirements were introduced in vocational programmes. Published and unpublished data on student flows through upper secondary school before and after implementation of the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Employment Opportunities, Participant Characteristics, Educational Change
Valuing Brazilian Youth: IDRA's Coca Cola Valued Youth Program in Latin America
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Montecel, Maria Robledo – International Journal on School Disaffection, 2008
Intercultural Development Research Association (IDRA) is an independent, non-profit organization with a vision for schools that work for all children. It partnered with Coca-Cola in 1984 and began a dropout prevention program just as it was conducting the first comprehensive study of school dropouts in Texas. Its annual studies since then have…
Descriptors: Dropouts, Foreign Countries, Economic Development, Tutors
UAR: A Demonstration Centre
Ahmed, Mohsen Abe Elhamid – Training Progr, 1969
Descriptors: Dropout Programs, Foreign Countries, Industrial Arts, Prevocational Education
Non-Formal Education Programmes in Haryana
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Zakir, K. L. – Indian Journal of Adult Education, 1975
The government-sponsored dropout rehabilitation and adult education program in Haryana is described by the head of non-formal and adult education in that district in a paper he delivered to the 1975 All-India Adult Education Conference. (Author/AJ)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Continuation Education, Developing Nations
Youth. A National Stay-in-School Initiative = Jeunesse. Projet national d'incitation a la poursuite des etudes.
Canada Employment and Immigration Commission, Ottawa (Ontario). – 1990
The Canadian government is meeting the rising demand for highly skilled workers with a $296.4 million national dropout prevention initiative over five years. This document, written in both English and French, describes the initiative. More than half of the funds will be allocated to programs and services, more than a quarter to mobilizing…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Computer Oriented Programs, Cooperative Programs, Dropout Prevention
Children, Schools, and Poverty = L'enfance, l'ecole, et la pauvrete.
Hess, Melanie – 1989
This monograph (in both English and French) examines the impact of poverty on children, with particular reference to the situation of poor children in Canadian elementary and secondary schools. Section 1 briefly introduces the topics of education and poverty. The link between poverty and children's physical and mental health and educational…
Descriptors: Child Health, Compensatory Education, Dropout Programs, Economically Disadvantaged
E.E.C./D.E.S. Transition to Work Project: Language, People & Work Course.
Phillimore, Peter; Ahmad, Yusuf I. – 1980
This paper describes a course of study offered by Bradford College in West Yorkshire, Great Britain, to twenty 16-19 year old students of Asian background who left school alienated from education as a process and school as an institution. The program offers English, prevocational, and vocational courses with the goal of improving the students'…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Continuation Students, Dropout Programs, Dropouts