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Tan, Jimmy, Bernadette Bernard, Justin Chung, Mohamed‐Adlane Debbouz, Victoria Fehr, Alyssa Frampton, Sara Jalali, et al. "Invited Commentary: ACCESS Open Minds National Youth Council." Early Intervention in Psychiatry 13, S1 (June 2019): 65–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/eip.12820.
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Jumpah, Emmanuel Tetteh, Richard Ampadu-Ameyaw, and Johnny Owusu-Arthur. "Youth employment in Ghana: economic and social development policies perspective." World Journal of Entrepreneurship, Management and Sustainable Development 16, no. 4 (September 14, 2020): 413–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/wjemsd-07-2019-0060.
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PurposeCreating employment opportunities for the youth remains a dilemma for policymakers. In many cases, policies and programmes to tackle youth unemployment have produced little results, because such initiatives have failed to consider some fundamental inputs. In Ghana, youth unemployment rate has doubled or more than doubled the national average unemployment rate in recent years. The current study, therefore, examines how policies in the past two decades have affected youth unemployment rate and other development outcomes.Design/methodology/approachThe study reviewed national economic development policy documents from 1996 to 2017 and other relevant policies aimed at creating employment opportunities for the youth, applying the content analysis procedure. Four main policy documents were reviewed in this regard. Data from secondary sources including International Labour Organisation (ILO), World Bank (WB), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) were analysed to examine the trends in youth unemployment rate, human development index and GDP growth rate in Ghana over the years. There were also formal and informal consultations with youth and development practitioners.FindingsThe results of the study show that policies that promote general growth in the economy reduce youth unemployment, while continuation of existing youth programmes, expansion, as well as addition of new ones by new governments reduces youth unemployment rate. In particular, GDP growth and youth unemployment rate trend in opposite direction; periods of increased growth have reduced youth unemployment rate and vice versa. The period of Ghana Shared Growth and Development Agenda I & II witnessed better reduction (5.7%) in youth unemployment rate than any of the policy periods. This was not sustained, and despite the current youth employment initiatives, unemployment among young people still remained higher than the national average.Research limitations/implicationsThe study provides relevant information on how development policies and programmes affect youth unemployment rate over time. In as much as it is not the interest of the study, the study stops short of empirical estimation to determine the level of GDP growth rate that can reduce a particular level of youth unemployment, which is a case for further research. Nevertheless, the outcome of the study reflects the data and methodology used.Originality/valueTo the best of the knowledge of the authors, this is a first study in Ghana that has attempted to directly link development outcomes such as youth unemployment to national economic development policies, although there are studies that have analysed the policy gaps and implementation challenges. This paper, therefore, bridges the knowledge of how development policies affect youth employment opportunities, particularly for Ghana.
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Okoro, John Peter, Dr Théophile Bindeouè Nassè, Amos Baafira Ngmendoma, Nicolas Carbonell, and Dr Mahamadi Nanema. "ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION AND YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT CHALLENGES IN AFRICA: GHANA IN PERSPECTIVE." International Journal of Management & Entrepreneurship Research 4, no. 5 (May 5, 2022): 213–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.51594/ijmer.v4i5.328.
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Entrepreneurship education has the mandate to equip the youth with functional knowledge and skills to build up their character, attitude and vision. It has vital role in developing eco-system that promotes innovation and solving unemployment challenges of nations. Government of Ghana has initiated direct job creation interventions to address youth unemployment challenges. Examples include: Skill Training and Employment Placement (STEP) Programme (2002-2004), National Youth Employment Programme (NYEP), now Youth Employment Agency (YEA) in 2006, Youth Enterprise Support (YES), now National Entrepreneurship and Innovation Plan (NEIP) in 2014, and the recent Nation Builders Corps. Despite the above efforts, unemployment rates in Ghana instead of reducing, increased from 2.15% in 2015, 2.26% in 2016 to 2.36% in 2017; whilst youth unemployment rate increased from 4.51% in 2015, 4.72% in 2016 to 4.9% in 2017. Therefore, this study attempts to conceptualize the relevance of entrepreneurial education to solving the youth unemployment challenges in Ghana. The study concluded that entrepreneurial education has the potentials of solving youth unemployment challenges in the society.
Keywords: Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurship Education, Unemployment.
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Nyatepeh Nyatuame, Promise, and Akosua Abdallah. "Youth Theatre and Community Empowerment in Ghana." Theatre and Community 9, no. 2021-1 (June 30, 2021): 122–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.51937/amfiteater-2021-1/122-149.
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As contemporary theatre and new production models are now being evaluated with more regard to community empowerment, the importance of proper tools for evaluation of the process has increased. The article explored the community youth theatre practices of the Community Youth Cultural Centre (CYCC) of the National Commission on Culture (NCC) in Ghana. We examined the role of the youth theatre at CYCC in the light of community empowerment. Using the qualitative case study design, six artists with a minimum of five years and a maximum of thirty years of work experience with the CYCC were interviewed. Performance activities and documents of the CYCC were also observed and analysed. The findings revealed four themes: Objectives of the centre; Youth theatre practices; Abibigoro/puppetry theatre models; and non-formal and cultural education. It was found that staff and artists at the CYCC employed diverse theatrical modes to facilitate community empowerment processes. The study recommends that cultural and creative centres in Ghana should harness the potentials of the community youth theatre, develop community-specific and context-driven performance models to support artistic- aesthetic-cultural and non-formal education processes to enhance our collective strive for community empowerment in Ghana.
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ADOM, KWAME, NEWMAN CHIRI, DANIEL QUAYE, and KWASI AWUAH-WEREKOH. "AN ASSESSMENT OF ENTREPRENEURIAL DISPOSITION AND CULTURE IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA: SOME LESSONS FROM GHANA." Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship 23, no. 01 (March 2018): 1850001. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s1084946718500012.
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This paper assesses the impact of Ghanaian culture on the entrepreneurial disposition of Higher National Diploma (HND) graduates of Accra Polytechnic from 2007 to 2012. Since the turn of the millennium, there has been more attention given to job creation than job seeking, especially among the youth, to address unemployment in developing countries. This is because of governments' inability to match the growing number of job seekers to job creation across the globe. One way to address this deficit in Ghana is the introduction of courses in entrepreneurship in almost all tertiary institutions, coupled with the setting up of institutions such as Ghana Youth Employment and Entrepreneurship Development Agency (GYEEDA), National Youth Employment Program (NYEP), Youth Entrepreneurship Agency (YEA), Youth Entrepreneurship Support (YES), among others. Reporting on 2015 data from Accra, the main finding was that collectivistic culture has negative effects on capital accumulation, human resource management and the urgency the unemployed graduates attached to self-employment. Therefore, this paper calls for some ways to address the issue of graduates' inability to be enterprising.
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Ayee, Joseph R. A. "Ghana´s Return to Constitutional Rule Under the Provisional National Defence Council (PNDC)." Verfassung in Recht und Übersee 29, no. 4 (1996): 434–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.5771/0506-7286-1996-4-434.
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Tangri, Roger. "The Politics of Government–Business Relations in Ghana." Journal of Modern African Studies 30, no. 1 (March 1992): 97–111. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022278x00007746.
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The emergence of a consensus that the performance of the public sector in Ghana had been poor, and that there were limits as to what it could achieve in terms of economic growth, led the Provisional National Defence Council (P.N.D.C.) to implement various policy reforms. As the Governor of the Bank of Ghana argued in 1984: ‘Given the dismal performance of the public sector, there is need for greater reliance on private investment in the Government's efforts to resuscitate the economy’. At the same time, the P.N.D.C. began to reassess the economic role of the public sector. According to a recent document prepared by the National Commission for Democracy, ‘changed national policies’ in Ghana include ‘the reduction of the state's rôle in the economic life of the nation through shifting of more responsibility to the private sector.
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Quarshie, Emmanuel Nii-Boye, Francis Annor, Johnny Andoh-Arthur, Theophilus Tagoe, and Evelyn Osei-Poku. "PSYCHOLOGISTS IN GHANA: ANALYSIS OF THE STANDING REGISTER." New Voices in Psychology 12, no. 1 (May 3, 2017): 55–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.25159/1812-6371/1627.
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The maiden register of the Ghana Psychological Council published in September 2015 represents the first national official standing register of psychologists in Ghana. Drawing on this maiden register, this paper presents a seminal analysis of the distribution of psychologists in Ghana in terms of categories of specialisation, gender composition, areas of employment, location of practice, and institutions of training. A copy of the gazette of registered psychologists was obtained from the office of the registrar of the Ghana Psychological Council and quantitative content analysis was conducted on the list of registered mainstream psychologists. Among other things, the analysis shows that there are 166 (largely Ghanaian-trained) psychologists categorised into six main subfields in the country. Females represent the majority in terms of gender composition. Colleges/polytechnics/universities are the main areas of employment; the practising locations of 69.9% of the psychologists are in Accra, with no psychologist registered from the Brong-Ahafo and Upper East regions. Despite the challenges with the maiden register of psychologists in Ghana, the register does provide a good database for reflections on the availability, diversity and distribution of psychologists in Ghana.
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Owusu, Maxwell. "Tradition and Transformation: Democracy and the Politics of Popular Power in Ghana." Journal of Modern African Studies 34, no. 2 (June 1996): 307–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022278x0005535x.
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In April 1992, after nearly 11 years of military rule in Ghana, a draft democratic constitution of the Fourth Republic was overwhelmingly approved in a national referendum.1 The ban on multi-party politics was lifted by the Provisional National Defence Council (PNDC) Government in the following month. An independent interim National Electoral Commission was established, and a hotly contested presidential election in 200 constituencies monitored by teams of international observers was held in November 1992. After multi-party parliamentary elections to the National Assembly, boycotted unfortunately by opposition groups, the democratically elected Government of Ghana's Fourth Republic was inaugurated in January 1993.2
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Wiggins, Trevor. "Teaching Culture: Thoughts from Northern Ghana." British Journal of Music Education 15, no. 2 (July 1998): 201–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0265051700009359.
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This article considers ideas and issues raised by an examination of the function of education, particularly music education in Ghana. There are many musical traditions in Ghana that the people want to pass on to the younger generation. How are these to be taught or learned? Where are the duties and boundaries of formal education to be drawn? What can be expected of parents and family? What is the situation for the teacher, given that few teachers return to their native area after training at a centralised institution? The article is based around an interview with the Paramount Chief (Naa) Puoure Puobe Chiir VII of Nandom in the Upper West Region of Ghana. He is one of twenty-five members of the National Council of State of Ghana (a non-elected Upper Chamber) and, as mentioned in the interview, vice-president of the National House of Chiefs and Chairman of its Research Committee.
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Jengre, Enock, and Stephen D. Kpinpuo. "Participation of youth in local level governance: developing country case study." Corporate Governance and Organizational Behavior Review 3, no. 2 (2019): 8–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.22495/cgobr_v3_i2_p1.
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This study investigates the factors that influence youth participation in local level governance in Ghana, a developing country. The Upper West Region was selected as a case study for this research. Through focus group discussions and in-depth interviews, as well as analysis of policy documents, the study reveals that the youth are more skillful in the use of technology and other strategic interventions to help address local, national, and global issues. Nonetheless, they are often marginalized and discriminated by their older partners at the Wa Municipal Assembly (WMA). Factors such as institutional barriers, partisan politicking, and inadequate resources account for much of the limitations placed on youth participation in the WMA. Given that the youth constitute more than half of Ghana`s population and 36% of the population of Wa, it is important to rethink the place of the youth in the management of the Metropolitan, Municipal, and District Assemblies
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Kidido, Joseph Kwaku, John Tiah Bugri, and Raphael Kasim Kasanga. "Youth Agricultural Land Access Dimensions and Emerging Challenges Under the Customary Tenure System in Ghana." Journal of Land and Rural Studies 5, no. 2 (May 30, 2017): 140–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2321024917700940.
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The youth constitute an important human capital for the socio-economic growth and development of Ghana. As an agrarian economy, land remains a key resource in national economic development. Consequently, youth access to agricultural land is crucial in harnessing their potential for increased agricultural production. This study examines youth access to agricultural land dimensions under the customary system in Ghana. Using Techiman area as a case study, the study employed multiple sampling techniques to select the study communities and the respondents. In all, 455 youth and 23 elder respondents were covered. The results revealed that the youth have limited access to land for agricultural purpose on permanent basis. Land access mechanisms which convey temporary and limited rights such as licence and rentals were more popular among the youth respondents. This undermines their ability to make long-term investments and participate in cash crop cultivation. The study recommends a targeted youth agricultural land policy by government that will leverage the potential of the youth for increased agricultural production in the country.
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Dobson, Steve, and John A. Goddard. "Local youth training initiatives." Local Economy: The Journal of the Local Economy Policy Unit 1, no. 4 (February 1987): 23–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02690948708725868.
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In April 1986, Leeds City Council staged a three day European Employment Conference on local employment initiatives involving Leeds and its twin cities Dortmund (Federal Republic of Germany) and Lille (France). High on the conference agenda was the problem of youth unemployment. This article discusses some of the local initiatives which were presented at the conference, against the background of various national education, training and employment creation schemes in operation in Germany, Britain and France. It is argued that although their overall impact on the youth unemployment problem is relatively small, the local initiatives described in this paper do provide training of a quality which is often lacking in many of the large-scale nationally based schemes.
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Opoku, Darko K. "Political Dilemmas of Indigenous Capitalist Development in Africa: Ghana under the Provisional National Defence Council." Africa Today 55, no. 2 (March 2009): 24–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.2979/aft.2009.55.2.24.
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Lingard, Bob, Paige Porter, Leo Bartlett, and John Knight. "Federal/State Mediations in the Australian National Education Agenda: From the AEC to MCEETYA 1987–1993." Australian Journal of Education 39, no. 1 (April 1995): 41–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/000494419503900104.
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Drawing on research interviews and relevant document analysis, this paper analyses the changing forms of the national education agenda as it was developed and modifed in the Australian Education Council from 1987 to 1993. Particular attention is given to four significant developments in this period: national curriculum statements and profiles in schooling, and Mayer competencies; the training reform agenda; higher education; and the National Strategy for Equity in Schools. The study is located against general developments in Australian federalism and the changing political complexion of State governments across the period which led to the creation of the Ministerial Council on Education, Employment, Training and Youth Affairs.
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Schroyens, Maarten, Arnim Langer, and Bart Meuleman. "Service to the Nation: Prospective Participants’ Engagement With National Service in Ghana." Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly 48, no. 4 (January 18, 2019): 859–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0899764018824667.
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The engagement of participants in mandatory national youth service programs is a potentially important, but often neglected factor in understanding why these programs do or do not achieve their intended outcomes. This study examines the engagement of prospective participants in national service by testing competing theoretical frameworks on motivations for volunteering. Specifically, we examine motivational, institutional, and group identity theories and apply them to a mandatory national service program in a non-Western context: Ghana’s National Service Scheme (NSS). We analyze data from an online survey among almost 3,000 university students who are prospective NSS participants. Results indicate that the motivational perspective is very useful to understand engagement in mandatory community service in developing countries. In addition, the institutional and group identity perspectives are found to be complementary to this motivational perspective.
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Amoako, George Kofi, Robert Kwame Dzogbenuku, and Aidatu Abubakari. "Do green knowledge and attitude influence the youth's green purchasing? Theory of planned behavior." International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management 69, no. 8 (July 29, 2020): 1609–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijppm-12-2019-0595.
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PurposeThe paper examines the role of green knowledge and green attitude in purchasing behavior of the youth in Ghana. This study focuses on investigating how green value and green trust mediates the relationship between green knowledge and green attitude and purchase behavior of the youth in Ghana.Design/methodology/approachA quantitative approach was used. A total of 417 respondents were selected using convenient sampling method. Respondents were selected at leading shopping malls (grocery stores) in Accra the national capital of Ghana. Data was analyzed using the partial least square (PLS). Structural equation modeling (SEM) was used to investigate the relationship among the variables.FindingsThe findings indicate that there is a positive and significant relationship between green knowledge and purchasing behavior and also that there is a positive and significant relationship between green attitude and purchasing behavior. The findings revealed further that green trust do not mediate the relationship between green knowledge and purchasing behavior but green value does. The findings suggest that green value is more important in purchasing decision of the youth in Ghana than trust.Research limitations/implicationsResearch is essentially cross-sectional and longitudinal studies and can validate findings in the long term. The researchers admit that this research work which is carried out only in Ghana cannot be used to generalize an assumption for the entire youth in Africa and beyond. The sample size could be improved and the study could be conducted in other African countries for the purposes of comparison.Practical implicationsBusiness managers who are interested in sustainability of their firms and society at large can be guided by this insight that green knowledge and attitude influence purchase decisions of the youth. The findings that green trust do not mediate the relationship between green knowledge and purchasing behavior but green value does will guide managers on marketing and communication strategies especially toward the youth.Originality/valueThe model argues that the youth purchasing behavior is influenced by green knowledge and attitude. The model suggests that that green value is more important in purchasing decision of the youth in Ghana than trust. The model further points out that green trust do not mediate the relationship between green knowledge and purchasing behavior.
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Banister, Marina. "Canada’s Beef with Lipstick: Eat or Be Eaten." Political Science Undergraduate Review 1, no. 2 (February 15, 2016): 43–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.29173/psur18.
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In the summer of 2015 the City of Edmonton Youth Council proposed a motion to City Council to adopt solely vegetarian or vegan food for all catered meetings for the purpose of environmental sustainability. The motion garnered national media attention, starting with a focus on the motion itself, however quickly transformed into a story about sexism when the online reader commentary started to attack the Youth Council Committee Chair Marina Banister. This paper will analyze the backlash Banister received in the online commentary sections by breaking apart four articles from CBC News Edmonton, Yahoo News Canada, and the Edmonton Journal. The online comments written in reaction to news articles about Banister’s motion to City Council will be assessed in how they delegitimized her argument and undermined her political credibility. Ultimately the paper will conclude that the online comments focused on Banister which distracted from the motion itself and challenged her credibility as an expert on this issue.
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Peggie, Andrew. "A report of a National Conference for Head Teachers, Education Officers, Governors, Parents, Teachers and Heads of Music Services organised jointly by Music for Youth and the Music Education Council." British Journal of Music Education 11, no. 3 (November 1994): 181–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s026505170000214x.
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On Monday and Tuesday July 4 and 5,1994, a national conference was held at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, concurrently with the annual National Festival of Music for Youth. Organised jointly by Music for Youth and the newly renamed Music Education Council, and supported by the Times Educational Supplement, it aimed to address questions of support and provision for music education and the maintenance of quality in music education in the light of changing national structural and funding circumstances in the UK. This report outlines the platform speakers' contributions in precis form, together with an overview of the emerging themes and issues identified during both presentations and question/discussion sessions.
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Woodman, Gordon R. "Ghana Reforms the Law of Intestate Succession." Journal of African Law 29, no. 2 (1985): 118–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s002185530000663x.
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Four interrelated reforms in the private law of Ghana were promulgated by the ruling Provisional National Defence Council (P.N.D.C.) on 14 June, 1985: the Intestate Succession Law, 1985 (P.N.D.C.L. Ill); the Customary Marriage and Divorce (Registration) Law, 1985 (P.N.D.C.L. 112); the Administration of Estates (Amendment) Law, 1985 (P.N.D.C.L. 113); and the Head of Family (Accountability) Law, 1985 (P.N.D.C.L. 114). The Intestate Succession Law radically changes the law of inheritance, and constitutes the most extensive legislative reform ever made in the private law of Ghana. The Administration of Estates (Amendment) Law is a minor consequential enactment. The other two Laws are directed primarily to other issues, but bear on the Intestate Succession Law in minor aspects which will be mentioned later.This comment does not seek to provide a detailed textual analysis of the Law, but merely to consider its provenance and general significance in the development of Ghanaian property law.
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Amerman, S. "Red Power Rising: The National Indian Youth Council and the Origins of Native Activism." Journal of American History 98, no. 3 (November 29, 2011): 896. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jar495.
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Miloševič Zupančič, Vesna. "Taxonomy of Teaching Methods and Teaching Forms for Youth in Non-Formal Education in the National Youth Council of Slovenia." Center for Educational Policy Studies Journal 8, no. 1 (March 22, 2018): 117. http://dx.doi.org/10.26529/cepsj.491.
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Research from the field of non-formal education (NFE) in youth work emphasises the central role of experiential learning and learning in groups. The present paper aims to research teaching methods and teaching formsin NFE in youth work. The research sought to answer the following research questions: ‘What teaching forms can be found in NFE for young people in youth councils on a national level in Slovenia?’ and ‘What teachingmethods can be found in NFE for young people in youth councils on a national level in Slovenia?’ Data was collected using semi-structured interviews; the instrument was a list of questions. The empirical research was conducted in July 2016 with six interviewees. The results indicate that learning in selected NFE in the National Youth Council of Slovenia (MSS) is participatory, interactive, inclusive and student-focused; with central concepts of experiential learning and learning in groups. The key teaching form is learning in groups. However, individual work, work in pairs, programmed instruction and direct instruction are also present. The central and omnipresent teaching method is experiential learning. Problem-based learning, case-study method, action learning, and project-based learning are intertwined and connected to the experiential learning method. Other methods include verbal-textual methods, illustrative-demonstration methods, experimental methods, peer learning, and support methods. The conclusions are applicative in the didactic spectrum of NFE in youthwork and in the wider didactic spectrum of adult learning. Implications for further research include teaching methods and forms in NFE inside the wider youth sector, internationally comparative and through quantitativeresearch.
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McQuoid–Mason, David. "LEGAL AID IN NIGERIA: USING NATIONAL YOUTH SERVICE CORPS PUBLIC DEFENDERS TO EXPAND THE SERVICES OF THE LEGAL AID COUNCIL." Journal of African Law 47, no. 1 (April 2003): 107–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0221855303002001.
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At the National Consultative Forum on Transforming the Administration of Justice System in Nigeria, convened by the Federal Minister of Justice and the Federal Attorney-General in November 2001, it was decided to draft a National Action Plan on Justice Sector Reform in Nigeria and to produce a Justice Vision document. The Ministry of Justice and the Attorney-General's office identified the need to examine ways of (a) upholding the Constitution and the rule of law; (b) promoting justice, fairness and human dignity; and (c) incorporating and expanding community participation in the administration of justice. The Legal Aid Council of Nigeria could contribute to this process by establishing a public defender network using law graduates in the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC). It may be possible to use the NYSC scheme to expand dramatically the current level of legal aid in Nigeria by employing the services of NYSC law graduates more extensively as public defenders. In order to consider the feasibility of such a programme the following factors will be considered: (i) the availability of lawyers and law graduates; (ii) the duties imposed by the Nigerian Constitution; (iii) the function of the Legal Aid Council; (iv) the operation of the Legal Aid Council; (v) the provision of legal aid services by the Legal Aid Council; and (vi) the cost of establishing a structured NYSC public defender programme.
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Коляда, Наталия Николаевна. "Youth work in Ukraine: new approaches to the strategic sector of social policy." Studia Gdańskie. Wizje i rzeczywistość XIV (June 3, 2018): 69–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0014.2526.
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The article highlights new approaches to youth work, training of youth workers as strategic direction of social policy reform in the context of the draft Law of Ukraine On Youth. Current practice indicates a number of topical issues related to the preparation and formation of professional skills and social competencies of social workers – future implementers of youth policy. In particular, the practice demonstrates the failure of existing forms of training, which are now mostly limited academic training specialists in the social and socio-educational fields in universities. Modernity requires wider distribution of non-traditional and innovative forms of formation of personnel potential in the field of youth work. An example of an innovative approach to youth issues in general and youth training personnel reform is a new draft Law of Ukraine On Youth, developed by a group of MPs, together with the Ministry of Youth and Sports, and experts UNICEF resuscitation reform package. Key areas of the bill are: employment, housing and youth building support young people in difficult circumstances, cultural development, health and physical development, legal protection. Along with the traditional preliminary legal instruments in the field of youth policy, such as informal youth associations, youth organizations, national-patriotic education of youth and others. The draft appears a number of terms that make the content innovative potential of social youth policy, namely vulnerable young people, youth work, youth participation and the Council, Youth Advisory Council, a youth worker, youth center, informal education of young people and others.
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Rainsford, Emily. "Exploring youth political activism in the United Kingdom: What makes young people politically active in different organisations?" British Journal of Politics and International Relations 19, no. 4 (September 8, 2017): 790–806. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1369148117728666.
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This article challenges the current research on youth disengagement by asking what makes young people active in different political organisations. It applies the classic civic voluntarism model to explore which factors (skills, attitudes, mobilisation and motivations) best distinguish between young activists in political parties’ youth factions, the British Youth Council and the 2010 National Union of Students demonstrations. The results from multinomial logistic regression show that there are differences especially in the civic and political attitudes. The results also show that different organisations attract different kinds of young people, which can be used to (re-)engage young people in politics.
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ASHFORD, HOLLY. "POPULATION CONTROL, DEVELOPMENT, AND GHANA'S NATIONAL FAMILY PLANNING PROGRAMME, 1960–1972." Historical Journal 63, no. 2 (September 11, 2019): 469–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0018246x19000360.
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AbstractThe National Family Planning Programme (NFPP) was launched in Ghana in May 1970. It was a tool to implement the 1969 Population Policy Paper, which the military government, the National Liberation Council (NLC), had written with the aid of Ford Foundation advisers. The policy paper reiterated international ‘overpopulation’ discourses that pushed for national planning to stem population growth, especially in ‘developing’ countries. Indeed, it constituted an example of development planning. It discursively linked Ghana's prosperity, and modernity, to stemming rapid population growth through fertility limitation. When the NFPP was launched by the Progress Party (PP) government in 1970, its focus was to implement the population policy by limiting population growth through curbing fertility. International discourses of development and population, as well as the specific interventions of organizations such as the Ford Foundation, the Population Council, and the International Planned Parenthood Federation, shaped Ghana's family planning story. However, choices over the implementation of family planning were ultimately linked to governments’ modernization and development projects and ideologies. Different approaches to family planning by the Nkrumah, NLC, and PP governments highlight the fact that family planning was ultimately political, but legitimized by development discourses of global and local origin.
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Rodgers, Michelle Skiles, and Monica Hobbs Vinluan. "Closing Thoughts: On the Power of Youth and System Change." Journal of Youth Development 13, no. 3 (September 18, 2018): 284–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.5195/jyd.2018.673.
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Change is happening in the Cooperative Extension System as the organization focuses its efforts on the overall goal of creating a culture of health in the United States. Well Connected Communities is a Cooperative Extension and National 4-H Council initiative supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation that involves modeling a systems-level approach to community efforts versus an individual prevention model. The initiative also engages the power of youth to catalyze progress for communities to achieve their best health and well-being.
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Mensah, Eric, and Martin Owusu. "Teachers’ Curriculum Knowledge in Teaching Christian Religious Studies among Senior High Schools of the Greater Accra Region of Ghana." East African Journal of Education and Social Sciences 3, no. 4 (September 23, 2022): 126–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/eajess.v3i4.204.
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The study sought to investigate on teachers’ curriculum knowledge in teaching Christian Religious Studies among Senior High Schools of the Greater Accra Region of Ghana. The population of the study was CRS teachers in Senior high schools in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana. Through census sampling approach, all teachers of CRS were involved in filling the questionnaire. Analysis of data was done through descriptive statistics. The study established that teachers of CRS had high knowledge about the rationale of teaching CRS. It was also found that teachers of CRS had high knowledge of the aims of teaching CRS. It is therefore recommended that Universities that are mandated to train teachers of CRS in Ghana should include courses like curriculum studies in CRS emphasis, the rationale (philosophy and logic) and aims for the subject. This would ensure that teachers who teach CRS have adequate knowledge and the rationale and aims for teaching the subject. The Ghana Education Service (GES) in collaboration with the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NaCCA) should organise regular in-service trainings for the teachers of CRS.
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Esmonde, Katelyn, and Shannon Jette. "‘We are Not a Nation of Softies, But We Could Become One’: Exploring the Materiality of Fitness Testing in the President's Council on Youth Fitness." Somatechnics 11, no. 3 (December 2021): 395–412. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/soma.2021.0367.
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In this article, we peer into the scientific networks of humans and non-humans that were assembled to articulate youth fitness in the United States during the Cold War era when the perceived ‘muscle gap’ between United States youth and their European and Soviet counterparts lent urgency to the establishment of national fitness testing standards and plans. We draw on Actor-Network Theory as a theory/method to foreground the materiality of the body and measurement tools whilst also highlighting the contingency of scientific claims about the body and fitness. In particular, we discuss and contextualise two interrelated networks of fitness testing. First, we examine the Kraus-Weber Tests for Minimum Muscular Fitness in Children (K-W tests), whose results were published in 1953 and brought the ‘muscle gap’ to national attention. Second, we explore the networks assembled within the President's Council on Youth Fitness in order to implement fitness testing on a national scale, illustrating how they connected to, and extended, a variety of other networks, including the K-W tests. Throughout our analysis, we seek to illuminate the political implications of the technical work undertaken to articulate youth ‘fitness’.
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Shreve, Bradley Glenn. "Up against Giants: The National Indian Youth Council, the Navajo Nation, and Coal Gasification, 1974–77." American Indian Culture and Research Journal 30, no. 2 (January 1, 2006): 17–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.17953/aicr.30.2.g4h1042572302642.
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Boakye, Paul Acheampong, and Daniel Béland. "Actors, bricolage, and translation in education policy: a case study from Ghana." Journal of Modern African Studies 60, no. 3 (September 2022): 323–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022278x22000192.
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AbstractDue to the centrality of education to economic growth and social development, successive governments in post-colonial Ghana have implemented policies to improve the quality of education in the country. In line with this, Ghana embarked on its first major education reform in 1987 under the Provisional National Defence Council (PNDC) government. While several studies have been conducted to explain this reform, these studies have largely been descriptive and theoretically, have over relied on the conditionality thesis. Our study draws on ideational literature and research interviews to offer an alternative explanation of the 1987 reform. Drawing extensively on the ideational concepts of bricolage and translation and focusing on the actors using these two mechanisms, the study argues that, while exogenous forces did impact the 1987 reform, it was mainly driven by endogenous factors featuring both path dependent and departing changes.
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Xia, Yan, Sarah Taylor, and Maria Rosario T. De Guzman. "Evaluation of the Health Rocks! Program: The Association of Youth Engagement with Program Outcomes." Journal of Youth Development 11, no. 3 (January 4, 2017): 95–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.5195/jyd.2016.463.
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This evaluation research examined the relationship between program process and program outcome, specifically, youth engagement in the national 4-H Council Health Rocks! program and their program outcomes. Based on program evaluation surveys completed after the program by participants, youths’ engagement in the program was associated with their gains in knowledge and skills about substance use, and personal assets related to avoiding risks. When youth participants find a program interesting, are actively engaged in the program, and find the program staff friendly, they benefit more from the program. Findings underscore the importance of engaging curriculum and friendly staff to the success of extension or afterschool youth programs. The evaluation method may offer an example of balancing rigor of evaluation design and feasibility of implementing an evaluation.
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Grachev, E. N. "CONCEPTUAL BASES AND IMPLEMENTATION OF THE EU YOUTH POLICY." MGIMO Review of International Relations, no. 5(50) (October 28, 2016): 136–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.24833/2071-8160-2016-5-50-136-144.
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Europe is making significant efforts to create a common space where not only common political institutions and values, but also common future is to be shaped. And it is young people who is selected to be the main policy object for building common European identity. To this end in recent years, the European Union has worked out the institutional mechanisms of its youth policy, has formed special agencies for its implementation, developed legal framework. The main document, which laid the conceptual basis of EU youth policy is the White Paper. The document determines the most challenging issues in youth policy that need to be resolved in the short and long term. The next major document - the European Youth Pact - has become a real legal act which came into force throughout the European Union. The most important document which determines the guidelines of the current EU youth policy is a strategy "Youth - Investing and Empowering." The strategy settles a key vector of European youth policy for all EU countries. All documents take into account the interests of the whole EU and not individual nation states that is why they influence young people at the supranational level. The European Union has developed a full-fledged system of management of youth policy on two levels: the supranational (pan-European) and national. Council of Europe and European Parliament are responsible for the implementation of youth policy at supranational level. Various national agencies are responsible for the implementation of certain EU youth programs at national level. The EU documents on the youth policy show that the youth is viewed by European politicians as one of the most politically important social groups in Europe. That is why youth policy is directed not only at youth development, but has to it a significant political component. A significant part of the youth policy is related to the involvement of young people in the democratic institutions, the involvement of young people in the EU governance.
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Benjamin, Abugri,, Ahenkan, Albert, and Bawole, Justice Nyigmah. "The Role of Knowledge Management in National Food and Agriculture Policy Implementation: Evidence from the Planting for Food and Jobs Agricultural Policy of Ghana." Volume 5 - 2020, Issue 9 - September 5, no. 9 (October 4, 2020): 967–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.38124/ijisrt20sep637.
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Knowledge plays a key role in the success of development policies. It is a key asset used by individuals, corporations, governments and international bodies in achieving both competitive and comparative advantage. The Planting for Food and Jobs agricultural policy was implemented to create job opportunities, promote food security, and socio-economic growth after failure of several agricultural policies in Ghana. A desk review reveals that through Knowledge Management, food is now available in export volumes and the country has begun exporting cereal grains and plantain to neighboring West African countries. The government of Ghana through the learning of outcomes have shown the commitment to address the few challenges of the programme which include the establishment of warehouses and buffer stock companies. It had been recommended that the policy implementation framework should be redesigned to promote active youth and women participation.
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Donaldson, Joseph L., and Karen L. Franck. "A Mixed-Methods Evaluation to Measure 4-H STEM Program Quality." Journal of Youth Development 15, no. 5 (September 22, 2020): 203–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.5195/jyd.2020.835.
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The 4-H Science: Building a 4-H Career Pathway Initiative was a 3-year collaboration among National 4-H Council, Lockheed Martin, and state 4-H grantees to help more than 50,000 youth in 13 states develop STEM and workforce skills for STEM professions. A mixed-methods design used observations and interviews to assess program quality. Researchers observed 4-H STEM programming and conducted individual and focus group interviews with youth, parents, community volunteers, corporate volunteers, and professionals. Observations were conducted using a validated observational tool, the Out-of-School Time (OST) Observation Instrument with STEM Plug-In. This instrument measured youth relationship building, youth participation, staff relationship building, staff instructional strategies, activity content and structure, and STEM instruction. Findings from the observations and interviews were combined to assess program quality. Sites scoring highest on the OST Observation Instrument reported using quality STEM curriculum, especially National 4-H Youth Science Day lessons. The 4-H STEM programs demonstrated highly evident and consistent youth relationship building (e.g., being friendly and collaborative) and youth participation (e.g.., contributing ideas and taking leadership). Yet, in many cases, STEM youth skill development (e.g., drawing connections to real-world concepts) and STEM staff instructional practices (e.g., discussing how youth could pursue STEM content through their education and/or career) were inconsistent and rarely evident. Recommendations include substantive professional and volunteer development for both STEM competencies and enhanced youth development. The OST Observation Instrument with STEM Plug-In provided a comprehensive tool to evaluate program quality, and it is recommended for use in evaluating other 4-H STEM programs.
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Greenes, Carole, Linda Schulman, and Rika Spungin. "Stimulating Communication in Mathematics." Arithmetic Teacher 40, no. 2 (October 1992): 78–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.5951/at.40.2.0078.
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Recently, a great deal of interest has been shown in communication in mathematics. The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, in its Curriculum and Evaluation Standards for School Mathematics (1989), states that at all grade levels, students must learn to communicate mathematically. Science for All Americans: A Project 2061 Report (American Association for the Advancement of Science 1988) describes effective teaching of mathematics as teaching that emphasizes the development of students' abilities to communicate clearly in both oral and written work. Turning Points: Preparing American Youth for the Twentyfirst Century (Carnegie Council on Adolescent Development 1989, 43) encourages middle-grade teachers “to promote a spirit of inquiry and to stimulate students to think about and communicate ideas.”
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Brown, Virginia, Bonnie Braun, and JoAnne Leatherman. "Bold Ideas for the 4th H in 4-H: Teen Identified Concerns and Actions." Journal of Youth Development 10, no. 1 (March 1, 2015): 85–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.5195/jyd.2015.421.
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This article summarizes a literature review; teen-identified health concerns and issues; and teen bold ideas for actions. Findings from the National 4-H Council and Molina Healthcare Teens Take on Health initiative are provided and implications for 4-H programming tied to the new Cooperative Extension National Framework for Health and Wellness are addressed. The article is intended as background for Extension educators, volunteers and administrators as they review the 4-H Healthy Living Mission Mandate, learn what mattered to teens and consider how to incorporate the findings into state and local 4-H youth development programming.
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La Vere, David. "Red Power Rising: The National Indian Youth Council and the Origins of Native Activism (review)." Southwestern Historical Quarterly 115, no. 4 (2012): 417–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/swh.2012.0036.
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Winful, Ernest Christian, Michael Snowden, Jamie P. Halsall, Josiah Nii Adu Quaye, Denis Hyams-Ssekasi, Frank Frimpong Opuni, Emelia Ohene Afriyie, Elikem Chosniel Ocloo, and Kofi Opoku-Asante. "Graduate employability in Ghana: embedding social enterprise skills within the higher education framework." Emerald Open Research 4 (November 3, 2022): 38. http://dx.doi.org/10.35241/emeraldopenres.14791.1.
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Levels of unemployment and environmental challenges make social entrepreneurship and social enterprise very important for the sustainability of society. Higher education has played a fundamental role in driving entrepreneurship and innovation in local, national, regional, and global contexts. The authors of this article explore the state of the legislative framework in Ghana, as well as social enterprise education, stakeholder engagement, models and challenges. The methodology applied for this paper is concept mapping, enabling the critical exploration of the relevance of social enterprise in the context of higher education, and demonstrating how it could practically serve as a panacea to rising youth unemployment. This research concludes by making a case for including social enterprise in the higher education curriculum.
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Dassah, Damanko, and Peter Yelletuo. "IMPACT OF NATIONAL TEACHERS’ STANDARDS ON QUALITY AND EFFECTIVE EDUCATION DELIVERY." African Journal of Education and Practice 8, no. 4 (July 19, 2022): 47–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.47604/ajep.1575.
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Purpose: The study focused on the impact of the National Teachers’ Standards on quality and effective education delivery.
Methodology: The study adopted a mixed methods approach. In all, 20 tutors and 500 students were selected from 10 Colleges of Education in the Northern part of Ghana using purposive and quota sampling procedures. Data were collected using questionnaire and semi-structured interview guide. Quantitative data were analysed using mean and standard deviation while the qualitative data were analysed using thematic analysis.
Findings: The results showed that the student-teachers explained concepts clearly using examples familiar to learners, employed a variety of instructional strategies that encourages learner participation and critical thinking and paid attention to all learners, especially girls and students with Special Educational Needs, created a safe, encouraging learning environment and used appropriate disciplinary methods in the classroom. From the results, it was concluded that that the student-teachers were positively impacted by the National Teachers’ Standards in their teaching practices.
Unique Contributions to Theory, Practice and Policy: Tutors in Colleges of Education increase their training of student-teachers in terms of keeping of records about learners since this found to be an area that needed improvement. Ghana Tertiary Education Commission together with the National Teachers’ Council should encourage and ensure that Colleges of Education are implementing the National Teachers’ Standards effectively to better prepare student-teachers. Future researchers can adopt the Reform Theory of Action as used in the current study and use the findings of the current study as support for the theory.
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Newman, Emmanuel. "Budgeting and Fund Allocation in Higher Education in Ghana." Journal of Education and Vocational Research 4, no. 9 (September 30, 2013): 275–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.22610/jevr.v4i9.131.
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The National Council for Tertiary Education (NCTE) the coordinating body for tertiary education in Ghana) and the Ministry of Education established norms in the early 1990s to assist higher education institutions in planning and ensuring efficiency of their operations and foster performance monitoring and evaluation. The norms also serve as standardised input factors for budgeting and allocation of public funds for higher education. During the past years, budgetary allocation to higher education institutions for recurrent expenditure has fallen short of the norm-based costs. Indeed, the difference between the normbased costs of university education and resources made available to the institutions by the Government were 28.9% in 2005/06 and 23.4% in 2009/10. The consequence of the inability of the state to provide funds to meet the norm-based costs of higher education is the breakdown of norm-based budgeting which was instituted in the early 1990s and a reversion to incremental and ad-hoc budgeting without due regard to the volume of activities performed by the institutions. This development has had grave consequences for equity and efficiency in fund management in higher education. This work assesses the factors behind the discontinuance of the norm-based budgeting approach and the use of the incremental budgeting approaches in higher education in Ghana.
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Daniels, W. C. Ekow. "Recent Reforms in Ghana's Family Law." Journal of African Law 31, no. 1-2 (1987): 93–106. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021855300009268.
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On 14 June, 1985, the Provisional National Defence Council of Ghana promulgated a series of laws designed to give better security for widows and their children, provide an effective machinery for the registration of customary marriage and divorce and render heads of family statutorily accountable to their members. They are: Intestate Succession Law, Customary Marriage and Divorce Registration Law and Head of Family (Accountability) Law. There is no doubt that the enactment of these laws marks a significant turning point and a new concept of family property law, even though the impact of the laws is yet to permeate into the social fabric of the Ghanaian community as a whole.
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Pàmpols, Carles Feixa, and Maritza Urteaga Castro-Pozo. "Is There an Ibero-American “Youthology”? A Conversation." Youth and Globalization 1, no. 2 (December 2, 2019): 307–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/25895745-00102006.
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This article reproduces a conversation between Carles Feixa and Maritza Urteaga, researchers in youth studies, whose paths converge in the critical study of contemporary youth culture. Carles Feixa, PhD, is Professor of Social Anthropology at the Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona) and holds a Doctorate Honoris Causa from the University of Manizales (Colombia). He was previously a lecturer at the University of Lleida, and has been visiting scholar in Rome, Mexico City, Paris, Berkeley, Buenos Aires, Santiago de Chile, Newcastle and Lima. He has also been a public policy consultant for the United Nations and VP for Europe of the “Sociology of Youth” research committee of the International Sociological Association. In 2017 he was awarded the icrea Academia Award by the Autonomous Government of Catalonia and an Advanced Grant from the European Research Council. Maritza Urteaga, PhD, is Research Professor at the National School of Anthropology and History in Mexico City, and a level ii member of the National System of Researchers in Mexico. This conversation reviews Feixa’s career, from its beginnings in the 80s to the present, to determine whether there is something that can be called Ibero-American “youthology”.
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Brazienė, Rūta, and Inga Mikutavičienė. "Housing Policy Assessment in Lithuania: Youth Group Approach." Public Policy And Administration 17, no. 3 (October 29, 2018): 470–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.5755/j01.ppaa.17.3.21959.
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The purpose of this paper is to disclose youth assessment of Lithuanian housing policy. The paper discusses housing policy and the youth housing challenges. The empirical part of the paper is based on the Lithuanian youth original empirical research results “Housing Provision for the Youth in Lithuania: Opportunities and Problems” carried out in 2017–2018. This research was carried out in the framework of the project” Housing Provision for the Youth: Processes, Problems and Solutions in Lithuania (JABS)” (GER 007/17) funded by the Lithuanian Science Council National Research Program “Welfare Society”. The results of the survey research revealed that Lithuanian housing policy young people assess rather unfavourably. According to the respondents there is a lack of more active State role and regulation of housing policy, housing policy regulation, more effective action against “shadow” housing rental. Analysis of the research results according to the social demographics characteristics indicated that women are tend to stress more State support for the first housing provision, cash benefits and compensations for housing maintenance. Moreover, 30–35 years old persons indicated more State support for the first housing provision than representatives of the other youth age groups.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5755/j01.ppaa.17.3.21959
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Esia-Donkoh, Kweku. "Differences in Leadership Styles of Principals in Public Colleges of Education in Ghana Based on their Personal Characteristics." Research Journal of Education, no. 56 (June 15, 2019): 78–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.32861/rje.56.78.85.
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The study investigated the differences in leadership styles exhibited by principals of public Colleges of Education in Ghana in relation to their sex, age, years of work experience, and academic qualification. The cross-sectional survey design was adopted for the study. The target population was made up of all 46 principals of public Colleges of Education in Ghana. The target population consisted of all 38 public Colleges of Education which were in existence before the absorption of eight private Colleges of Education by the government of Ghana into public system. The purposive sampling technique was used to select 38 principals for the study. The Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire developed by Bass and Avolio (2004) was adapted to collect data. Means, standard deviations, t-test and ANOVA were used to analyse the data. The findings revealed that there were no statistically significant differences in the leadership styles of the principals of public Colleges of Education in Ghana based on their sex, age, and academic qualification. However, there were statistically significant differences in the leadership styles adopted by the principals in relation to their years of work experience. It was therefore concluded that many years of experience of principals of public CoEs in Ghana is critical for good leadership in these colleges. Among the recommendations was that the National Council for Tertiary Education (NCTE) should consider years of work experience in the selection and appointment of principals for public Colleges of Education in Ghana. Additionally, in-service training and refresher courses should be organized regularly by NCTE for principals on the leadership styles suitable for achievement of objectives and goals of their colleges.
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Robinson, Jo, and Jane Pirkis. "Research priorities in suicide prevention: an examination of Australian-based research 2007–11." Australian Health Review 38, no. 1 (2014): 18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/ah13058.
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Objective Suicide prevention, including among youth, has been a national priority in Australia for some time. Yet despite this, rates of suicide, and related behaviour, remain high. The aim of this study was to review all suicide-prevention research that had been conducted in Australia between January 2007 and December 2011, with a specific emphasis on studies relating to young people, in order to determine whether or not we are prioritising the sort of research that can adequately inform policy development and guide ‘best practice’. Methods Data were collected from two sources. First, several electronic databases were searched in October 2012 in order to identify published journal articles relating to suicide, written by Australian authors. Second, summary data obtained from the National Health and Medical Research Council, the Australian Rotary Health Research Fund and the Australian Research Council were examined in order to identify currently funded studies that relate to suicide. Studies were then classified according to whether or not they had a focus on youth, and according to research type, type of suicide-related behaviour under investigation and method of suicide. Results There were 224 articles published and 12 grants funded that specifically focussed on suicide-related behaviour over the period January 2007 to December 2011. Of these, 47 articles (21%) and five funded grants (42%) focussed on young people. Youth studies, in particular those reported in the published articles, tended to be epidemiological in nature and only six of the published articles (13%) and two of the funded grants related to intervention studies. Conclusions Although the focus on youth is welcome, the lack of intervention studies is disappointing. Given that rates of suicide and related behaviour remain high, there is a clear need for a stronger body of intervention research that can inform national policy, if we are to successfully develop effective approaches to reducing suicide risk. What is known about the topic? Although the prevention of youth suicide has been a national priority for some time, rates of suicide and suicide-related behaviour remain high among young Australians. Much is known about the epidemiology of suicide; however, relatively little is known about which interventions may be effective in reducing this risk. Previous research suggests that although youth receive a reasonable amount of research attention in Australia, the majority of studies focus on epidemiological as opposed to intervention research. What does this paper add? This paper reviews all suicide research that has been conducted in Australia between 2007 and 2011 in order to examine how much attention is currently given to studies relating to youth, and the relative priority given to intervention and epidemiological studies. Our findings support those reported previously, which suggest that although a significant proportion of suicide research focuses on youth, relatively little attention continues to be given to intervention studies. What are the implications for practitioners? This paper argues that further intervention research is needed if we are to build a sufficiently strong evidence base that can effectively inform policy development and guide best practice when it comes to preventing youth suicide in Australia.
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Abadi, Mansurni, and Wulandari Wulandari. "Role of Social Activism Representative Board of Indonesian National Youth Committee (BP-KNPI) in Malaysia During Movement Control Order 2020-2021." Antroposen: Journal of Social Studies and Humaniora 1, no. 2 (December 3, 2022): 113–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.33830/antroposen.v1i2.4104.
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Through activism, community organization, and engagement in social movements, youth worldwide are becoming active actors, demonstrating their ability to influence society in times of crisis. In the context of Indonesian youth, especially those who are part of the diaspora community, attachment to fellow children of the nation is evidenced by social activism, as was the case in Malaysia during the movement control order between 2021 and 2022 through the representative body of the Indonesian Youth National Committee (BP-KNPI). Since its establishment on October 9, 2011, the Indonesian Youth National Committee (BP-KNPI), the representative body for Indonesian youth in Malaysia, has been proactive in playing its role as a second-track diplomatic force, advocating for youth and employment issues, and engaging in social activism to help Indonesian communities in Malaysia. During the pandemic period between March 2020 and December 2021, with the movement control order policy, the representative body of the Indonesian Youth National Committee (BP-KNPI) plays a role in social activism in three domains: (1) the field of employment by supporting the labour recalibration program, which repatriates illegal Indonesian workers in Malaysia (2). in the humanitarian realm by organising assistance from both internal and external parties, such as the Indonesian embassy in Kuala Lumpur; and (3). conducting second-track diplomacy to strengthen relations with the Malaysian Young Council and elements of the Malaysian government. In cyberspace, BP-KNPI Malaysia is also very active in raising solidarity and providing information related to recalibration programmes and social assistance through its members' potential as content creators and relationships with well-known media. Our research concludes that BP-KNPI Malaysia, as a youth civil society, has always been proactive in problem-solving during the pandemic through social activism in humanity, migrant workers from Indonesia, and legal literacy in cyberspace. BP-KNPI Malaysia also tactically implements the spirit of energy and harmony promoted by DPP-KNPI.
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BOAKYE, Peter, and Kwame Osei KWARTENG. "Education for Nation Building: The Vision of Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah for University Education in the Early Stages of Self-Government and Independence in Ghana." Abibisem: Journal of African Culture and Civilization 7 (December 5, 2018): 1–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.47963/ajacc.v7i0.38.
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The Gold Coast was renamed Ghana by the political leadership on the attainment of Independence. But before 1957, Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah had become Prime Minister of the Gold Coast in 1952, and by this arrangement ruled alongside the British Colonial Governor. Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah set out to rebuild the new nation, and by doing so, Education, especially University Education, became a significant tool for the realization of such an objective. He, and the Convention People’s Party (CPP) Government saw education as “the keystone of people’s life and happiness.’’1 Thus, Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah wanted the University Colleges in the Gold Coast to train intellectuals capable of combining both theory and practice as well as use their energies to assist in the task of national reconstruction.2 This explains why Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah clearly spelt out the visions of University Education in Ghana. This paper, which is multi-sourced, uses archival documents, newspapers, interviews and scholarly secondary works such as articles, book chapters and books to examine the visions of Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah for University Education in the early stages of self-government and independence in Ghana. The paper particularly focuses on measures adopted by the first Prime Minister of Ghana such as establishment of an International Commission on University Education (ICUE), making the existing University Colleges independent, the rationale for setting up the University College of Cape Coast (UCCC), the Africanization of the University staff, establishment of the Institute of African Studies and the formation of the National Council for Higher Education to transform the University Colleges to reflect the needs and aspirations of Ghanaians.
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1 H. O. A. McWilliam, & M. A. Kwamena-Poh, The Development of Education in Ghana. (London: Longman Group Ltd., 1975), 83.
2 Samuel Obeng, Selected Speeches of Kwame Nkrumah, Vol. 1 (Accra: Aframs Publication Ltd., 1997), 74.
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Abdul Razak, Siti Nazariah, and Tajul Arifin Muhamad. "STRATEGIC SPORTS PLANNING IN MALAYSIA AND QATAR." Malaysian Journal of Sport Science and Recreation (MJSSR) 18, no. 1 (March 15, 2022): 49. http://dx.doi.org/10.24191/mjssr.v18i1.17639.
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In the ‘11th Malaysia Plan 2016–2020’ targets sports and recreation for development fall under the Ministry of Youth and Sports. Each division and agency, as well as the Olympic Council has its own strategic plan. Somewhat differently, Qatar launched a sports plan, its Sports Sector Strategy 2011–2016 (2011), under the ‘Qatar National Vision 2030’. Both countries recently accounted for elite sporting performances at the 18th Asian Games in Jakarta-Palembang (2018). Malaysia won 7 gold medals and placed 14th overall. Qatar took 6 gold medals and 15th place. This article compares Malaysia and Qatar sports programs regarding vision, mission, strategies, outcomes and problems. A literature review and document analysis are herein offered with the hope of aiding Malaysia’s Ministry of Youth and Sports to develop proactive strategies with excellent outcomes.
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Choi, Y. Sammy. "Sexuality Education in Schools." Pediatrics 93, no. 5 (May 1, 1994): 871. http://dx.doi.org/10.1542/peds.93.5.871a.
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Sexuality education in the United States has been addressed recently by the official American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) publication, "School Health: Policy and Practice" prepared by the AAP Committee on School Health.1 In the section on school and sexuality education, the AAP has endorsed the recommendations published in 1991 by the Sex Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS)2 which is part of the National Coalition to Support Sexuality Education, a coalition of organizations that support the goal that all children and youth receive sexuality education by the year 2000.