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Title:Educational Expansion or Change? Some Choices for Central and Southern Africa
Author:Colclough, ChristopherISNI
Year:1974
Periodical:Journal of Modern African Studies
Volume:12
Issue:3
Period:September
Pages:457-490
Language:English
Geographic terms:Botswana
Lesotho
Swaziland - Eswatini
Zambia
Malawi
Subjects:educational reform
educational policy
Education and Oral Traditions
External link:https://www.jstor.org/stable/159944
Abstract:Shortages of skilled technical workers are still acute in Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland, Zambia, and Malawi; and shortages of educated people, particularly those with professional or degree-level qualifications, are obvious. So the crucial question of the ministry of education and of planning units still is 'How fast ought we to expand?' The manpower approach attempts to match future outputs of students from each level of the education system with the projected demands for skilled workers, but this means that the examination of what kind of education system was needed had largely to be ignored. The preoccupation was with educational expansion, not with educational change. This last issue is examined in this article in the following sections: The neglect of formal training - The effects of wage and salary distortions - Some conclusions. Notes (i.a. enumerating manpower surveys in various regions).
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