The financing of education has emerged as a major topic of discussion among policy makers in recent years. There is evidence that in many developing countries, governments can no longer continue to increase spending on education at the high rates characteristic in the 1960s and 1970s. The macroecono
Training and education of teachers in higher education in developing countries
โ Scribed by Lewis Elton; Gave Manwaring
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 1981
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 623 KB
- Volume
- 10
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0018-1560
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โฆ Synopsis
The article describes our experience and experiments in helping to develop a training programme for academic staff at Universiti Sains Malaysia and the model of staff training associated with this programme. This is used as a basis for proposals for a more general scheme of staff training for universities in the South East Asian region, a special feature of the proposals being the use of distance teaching and of individualised learning materials in teaching and learning in higher education. The ultimate aim of the scheme is to make the region independent of outside assistance.
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