Past Research
This section contains a comprehensive listing of all my past research work.
Agricultural research planning and management
1990
‘Inter-group relations in institutional agricultural technology systems’ in D. Kaimowitz (ed.)
Making the Link: Agricultural Research and Technology Transfer in Developing Countries, Boulder: Westview
1989
‘Strengthening agricultural research in ACP countries: the role of management training’ (with T.M. Narain)
The Courier, 115, May-June.
1987
‘A bibliometric overview of crop science publications in sub-Saharan Africa’ (with P. Thorpe)
Agricultural Administration and Extension, 25.
Educational outcomes and labour market analysis
2007
Where has all the education gone in sub-Saharan Africa? employment and other outcomes among secondary school and university leavers
Journal of Development Studies, 43, 7, October.
2006
Employment outcomes among artisan graduates of vocational training centres in Tanzania.
Compare, 36, 1, March.
1994
‘The lost generation? A longitudinal tracer study of school leavers from township schools in South Africa’ (with M. Monyokolo).
International Journal of Educational Development, 14 (3).
1993
‘Education and training outcomes: a tracer study of university graduates in Zimbabwe during the 1980s’
The Zimbabwe Journal of Educational Research, 5 (2).
1983
‘The colonial legacy of salary structures in Anglophone Africa’
The Journal of Modern African Studies, 20 (1).
1983
‘Earnings differentials between the public and private sectors in Africa: the cases of Ghana, Kenya and Nigeria’
Labour and Society, 6 (3), July-September.
1983
‘The professions in Africa: a case study of the engineering profession in Kenya’
Development and Change, 14 (1).
1983
‘The professions in Africa: some interactions between local and international markets’ (with M. Godfrey)
Development and Change, 14 (3).
1981
A world of differentials: African pay structures in a transitional context (with four others)
London: Hodder and Stoughton.
Higher education
2004
The global higher education industry: internationalisation, privatisation and commercialisation.
Commonwealth Education Partnerships 2004.
2003
Review article ‘Does education matter? Myths about education and economic growth’
International Journal for International Development, vol. 23.
2002
‘The internationalisation of higher education: Exporting education to developing and transitional economies’
International Journal of Educational Development, October.
1994
‘A university for the povo? The socio-economic background of university students in Zimbabwe since independence’ (with M. Ncube)
The Journal of Southern African Studies, 20 (4), December.
1992
‘Black occupational advancement in Zimbabwe: the experience of the 1980s’ (with B. Strachan) in P. Hugo (ed.)
Redistribution and Affirmative Action: Working on South Africa's Political Economy, Johannesburg: Southern Publications
Industrial and economic analysis policy and practice
1998
‘Fighting for survival: manufacturing industry and adjustment in sub-Saharan Africa’
Journal of International Development, 10 (2) August.
1997
Foreign direct investment in sub-Saharan Africa: recent trends and future prospects.
SAIS Review, June.
Industrial development and foreign investment
1997
Privatisation in Sub-Saharan Africa: progress and prospects during the 1990s.
IDS Working Paper No. 41 and World Development, 25 (12), December.
1995
‘British manufacturing investment in sub-Saharan Africa: corporate responses during adjustment’
Journal of Development Studies, 32 (2), December.
1992
‘Market power and mark-ups: manufacturing industry in Zimbabwe, 1970-1986’
Eastern African Economic Review, 8 (2)
1991
‘British industrial investment in sub-Saharan Africa: corporate responses to economic crisis in the 1980s’
Development Policy Review, 8 (2), June.
1984
‘Industrial class formation in Ghana: some empirical observations’
Development and Change, 15 (2).
Labour market analysis/human resources planning
1994
‘Jobs for the boys? The employment experiences of secondary school-leavers in Zimbabwe’ (with N. Ncube)
The Journal of Southern African Studies, 20 (2), June.
Primary and secondary education
2013
Assessing the impact of education sector reform in low income countries: developing a comprehensive, intervention-focused research programme
In Commonwealth of Learning: Millennium Development Goals Revisited
J. Macbeath and M. Younger (eds.) Cambridge, Routledge
2007
Education public expenditure review of Kaduna State, Nigeria (with H.Abubakar).
ESSPIN and DFID, Abuja.
2004
PRSP Education Sector Review
with J Harding, S Rogers-Wright - Freetown: British Council Sierra Leone, 2004
1998
‘Has Jomtien made any difference? Trends in donor funding for education and basic education since the late 1980s’.
IDS Working Paper No.51 and World Development, 26 (1), January.
1996
‘Using and abusing rates of return: A critique of the World Bank’s 1995 education sector review’.
International Journal of Educational Development, 16 (2).
1996
‘Rates of return to education to primary education: Does the conventional pattern prevail in sub-Saharan Africa?’
World Development, 24 (1), January.
1993
‘Up-dating rates of return to education: Zimbabwe in the late 1980s’ (with T. Malaba)
International Journal of Educational Development, 13 (2).
Teachers
2007
Teacher motivation and incentives in Africa and South Asia
DFID Researching the Issues No.92. London.
2005
Is there a teacher motivation crisis in Tanzania? (with F. Mukyanuzi)
Knowledge and Skills for development, Brighton.
2004
Teacher motivation and incentives in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia.
Knowledge and Skills for Development, Brighton.
The impact of HIV/AIDS on education
2005
The impact of the AIDS epidemic on the schooling of orphans and other directly affected children in sub-Saharan Africa.
Journal of Development Studies, vol. 41, no.3, April.
2005
The impact of the AIDS epidemic on teachers in sub-Saharan Africa.
Journal of Development Studies, vol. 41, no.3. April
2004
The impact of the AIDS epidemic on teachers in Malawi (with Esme Kadzamira).
Malawi Journal of Education.
2003
The impact of the AIDS epidemic on primary and secondary schooling in sub-Saharan Africa.
The Association for the Development of Education in Africa, Dakar.
2003
The AIDS epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa: are teachers a high-risk group.
Comparative Education, vol. 39, no. 4. November.
2002
The impact of the HIV/AIDS epidemic on the education sector in sub-Saharan Africa: a synthesis of the findings and recommendations of three country studies.
Centre for International Education, University of Sussex, Brighton.
2001
The impact of HIV/AIDS at the University of Botswana (with two others).
DFID Education Research Series No. 44.
2001
The impact of HIV/AIDS on primary and secondary schooling in Botswana (with five others).
DFID Education Research Series No. 45.
Vocational training and skills development
2020
Strengthening technical and vocational education and training in sub-Saharan Africa: A review of World Bank Policy and Practice 1991-2019.
Knowledge and Skills for Development, Brighton.
2002
Vocational training and economic liberalisation in Zimbabwe.
Assessment in Education, 7,3, November
1999
Vocational education and training in Tanzania and Zimbabwe in the context of economic reform.
DFID Education Research Series No. 28.
1998
Vocational education and training in developing countries: has the World Bank got it right? (with Jan Segerstrom).
International Journal of Education Development, 18 (4).
1998
‘Vocational education and training in Zimbabwe: the role of private sector provision in the context of economic reform.’
IDS Working Paper 74 and IJED.
1996
‘General versus vocational secondary education in developing countries: a review of the rates of return evidence’.
Journal of Development Studies, 33 (2).
1996
‘Privatisation, choice and competition: The World Bank’s reform agenda for vocational education and training in sub-Saharan Africa’.
Journal of International Development, 8 (3)
1993
‘Vocational training in the LICs and MICs: lessons for the new South Africa’
Education with Production, 10 (1), December.
1993
‘The cost-effectiveness of alternative training modes: Mechanical engineering artisans in Zimbabwe during the 1980s’
Comparative Education Review, 37 (3), November.
1993
Human resources development: Report of the Human Resources Development Research Group of the National Education Policy Investigation (with A. Kraak and N. Swainson)
Cape Town: Oxford University Press.
1992
‘Training for self-employment? The performance of rural training centres in Zimbabwe’ (with D. Nyakonda)
International Journal of Educational Development, 12 (1), March.
1992
‘The vocational school fallacy revisited: the post-training experiences of secondary technical school graduates in Zimbabwe’
Education with Production, 9 (1).
1991
‘Skilled labour markets in Zimbabwe: a case study of mechanical engineering personnel’ (with D. Katsidzira and F. Madziya)
The Zimbabwe Journal of Educational Research, 3 (1), March.
1986
‘Engineering skills and development: the manufacturing sector in Kenya’
Development and Change, 17 (2).
1984
‘The utilisation of engineering skills in Kenya’ in M. Fransman and K. King (eds.)
Technology Capability in the Third World, London: Macmillan
1984
‘Occupational transfer: a case study of craft training policies in Kenya, 1945-1980’
Comparative Education Review, 28 (1), February.
1983
‘Skills and qualifications in small island states’ (with J. Oxenham)
Labour and Society, 8 (1).
1983
‘Engineering technicians in Africa: a Kenyan case study’
The Journal of Modern African Studies, 21 (2).
Areas of expertise
- Primary and secondary education (51)
- Higher education (17)
- Vocational training and skills development (38)
- Teachers (16)
- The impact of HIV/AIDS on education (18)
- Educational outcomes and labour market analysis (11)
- Industrial development and foreign investment (7)
- Agricultural research planning and management (3)
- Teacher supply planning (7)
- Capacity building and good governance (9)
- Labour market analysis/human resources planning (8)
- Industrial and economic analysis policy and practice (4)
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