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Informal Settlement and Teenage Prostitution in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, Nigeria

open access: yes, 2021
Informal settlement which sometimes used as synonym of slum, has over the years led to various social problems such as prostitution and many others. Base on this, the paper examined informal settlement and teenage prostitution in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State ...
Maduawuchi Elem, Adion-Arogo Azibasuam
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Addressing racialised awarding gap in higher education: Insights from personal tutors

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Situated within a wider cross‐institutional research project, this article provides an in‐depth case study of one higher education (HE) institution, focusing on how personal tutors make sense of racialised degree awarding disparities for both undergraduate and postgraduate students, how they perceive their responsibilities, the challenges and ...
Benjamin Ajibade   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Urban innovation in the informal city: overlapping infrastructures, co-production and sector coupling in a South African informal settlement

open access: yesFrontiers in Sustainable Cities
Informal settlements face significant infrastructural challenges, exemplified by limited electricity access in sub-Saharan Africa. We present insights from a 2020–23 research program in a South African informal settlement that highlighted the importance ...
Federico Caprotti   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

University strategy in transnational higher education: The strategic approaches of newly established and ‘small’ international branch campuses

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Newly established international branch campuses (IBCs) commence operations without a student body, and even after several years, many institutions fail to grow beyond 500 students. Despite having unique strategic needs, small IBCs are largely overlooked in the higher education literature.
Stephen Wilkins, Joe Hazzam
wiley   +1 more source

Knowing education in Thailand like a global expert organisation: Politics, context and data

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Global expert organisations play increasingly significant roles in the way that education is understood and governed internationally, including by influencing the discourses through which education is conceptualised and shaping norms of what counts as success, failure, progress and the most desirable visions for the future.
Steve Puttick   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Image-Based Reconstruction of Informal Settlements [PDF]

open access: yes, 1997
ISBN:978-3-7643-5788 ...
Mason, Scott, Baltsavias, Emmanuel P.
openaire   +2 more sources

Development and disappointment : an ethnographic study of Kosovo informal settlement's water and sanitation system upgrade

open access: yes, 2010
Includes bibliographical references (p. 70-73).In the context of rapid urbanisation and growing numbers of informal settlements in peri-urban areas of Cape Town, South Africa, a development project was undertaken by the municipality, to provide Kosovo ...
Beauclair, Roxanne
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The politics of leadership organizing in informal settlements: ambiguities of speaking publicly and mediating conflicting institutional logics

open access: yes, 2014
Includes bibliographical references.This thesis examines the politics of leadership organizing in three informal settlements in Cape Town. Building on the facts that internal informal settlement politics is tense and leadership organizing fragmented and ...
Drivdal, Laura Elisabet
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Mobile GIS occupancy audit of Ulana informal settlement in Ekurhuleni municipality, South Africa

open access: yesGeo-spatial Information Science, 2018
Relocating people in informal settlements and upgrading the lives of those people require consistent commitment, good strategies, and supporting systems. In South Africa, in order to allocate subsidized housing to beneficiaries of an informal settlement,
Baleseng Tlholohelo Mokoena   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Debunking the Myth: A Dive Into the Role of Relational Capital in Sustainable Food Production Systems

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The shift towards sustainable food production is essential to address the urgent dual challenges of climate change and population growth, with agricultural cooperatives playing a vital role in this transformation. However, many cooperatives struggle to deliver the expected value to their members.
Ismail Badraoui   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

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