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Education privatization has been perceived in developing countries as a strategy to deal with issues of access, quality, choice, and efficiency. To the Malaysian government, education privatization is a partnership to share the costs burden of educating all sectors of society. W…

This study explored the roles, beliefs and behaviors of three reputationally effective secondary school headteachers in Karachi, Pakistan. It selected one head from each of three types of schools—government, community and independent, assuming that contextual factors will influe…

This dissertation traces the establishment, expansion, and experience of government girls' education in Zanzibar from the late 1920s to the mid 1950s. Using archival and oral research, I explore shifting perspectives on the purpose of educating girls in government schools. The e…

Soon after World War I the British authorities opened primary and other schools in Iraq. Arabic replaced Turkish as the medium of instruction, and English was introduced as the only foreign language. English textbooks were imported from Egypt, India and Syria. Later, books for E…