Examines early childhood educational provision, policies, structures and human resources up to the age at which children begin primary education.

Defines contract teachers as volunteers, community teachers, para- teachers and similar who, in general, have lower qualifications and lower salaries than corresponding teachers with civil servant status, and who typically work in remote rural areas or in post-conflict regions, serve ethnic...

During the 1990s broad interest resurfaced among the public and policymakers on the subject of child labor, this time concentrating on the plight of children in the developing world. The children summit in New York (1990), the world summit on social development in Copenhagen (1995), and the...

This study provides the first systematic analysis of the worldwide movement against child labour. It argues that the intellectual and policy frameworks first articulated by the ILO in the 1980s remain important departure points for developing a more coherent, more sustained global effort against...