Comparative international studies on science and mathematics performance by school-going children categorize developing countries at the lower end of the spectrum. For example, South Africa’s children performed second lowest in the TIMSS 2013 study. Increased focused is placed on the promotion...

As the importance of cultural tourism is increasing, ever more states from Europe and not only are using cultural tourism for their tourism development strategies to attract a growing number of tourists. Oltenia’s cultural heritage with value for tourism is manifested through arts and crafts,...

Within the field of education, the fostering of learner autonomy has become an essential element of modern pedagogy and an established object of research. The Self-Access Learning Centre (SALC) at Kanda University of International Studies in Chiba, Japan, offers a range of self-study modules,...

Grammar mistakes are a natural part of language acquisition. In order to prevent them different teaching strategies are recommended. The aim of this study was to find out what are the causes of grammar mistakes, what practices teachers use to correct students’ mistakes and which strategies are...

Some of the fundamental challenges that society of higher education is facing,are the needs for research on difficult issues and comparisons at global level on one side, as well as at the local level taking into account the fact that in the modern world such comparisons are being made more...

Cultural expectations of a language trainer’s role can impede or facilitate trainer/trainee relationship. The Malaysian Australian Education Project for Afghanistan (MAEPA) was a tri-lateral literacy project between the three governments. The 240 Afghanistan master teacher students, in six...

Teacher readiness is an essential element in teaching and learning process. Sex education implementation depends on teacher readiness to teach the subject. In Malaysia, sex education is taught in various subjects namely Islamic Education, Moral Education, Science, Additional Science and Biology....

Student satisfaction is considered an important factor in terms of quality in competitive educational arena and education is taking a vital role in national development. Further, private education is thriving and improving service quality becomes competitive in educational environment, for there...

The aim of this paper is to report on an ongoing study designed to use a Quality Teaching Framework (NSW, 2003) as a standard framework for teachers in order to examine the gap between mathematics teachers’ practices in Saudi mathematics classrooms and the framework. QT framework identifies...

Online learning is expanding at an exponential rate, with more than one third of all higher education students taking at least one course online (Allen & Seaman, 2011). However, dropout rates for online courses are 10-20% higher than for traditional, face-to-face courses (Carr, 2000). Many...