Purpose In an attempt to tackle the incidence of poverty and social exclusion in the Ghanaian society, a number of social protection programmes including the school feeding programme is introduced. The programme is designed to cater for the extreme poor and as well encourage enrolment and attendance in the country. The purpose of this paper is to assess the intention or objective for which the programme is initiated and the realities on the ground. It looks at whether the current beneficiaries are the extreme poor described in the policy document. Design/methodology/approach The study explored the incidence of poverty in Ghana using the Ghana Living Standard Survey (GLSS6) and the Ghana School Feeding Annual Operation Plan (GSFAOP) with the help of the school feeding policy document to draw on actual beneficiaries and potential beneficiaries. The differences between percentages of poverty (2012/2013) and feeding schools was computed using GLSS6 and GSFAOP. The study also conducted a number of open-ended interviews with some stakeholders to validate the nature of recruitment of beneficiary schools. Findings The study concluded that there is a mismatch of potential beneficiaries and current beneficiaries using the referred data sources. It was found out that majority of beneficiary schools are located within areas of lesser incidence of poverty. This could be attributed to political interference in view of testimonies from respondents and the computerisation of GLSS6 and GSFAOP. The study therefore proposed that the allocation of feeding schools should be done to reflect the percentage of poverty situation in each region. This could be achieved when the district education office takes control. It will help minimise the level of politicisation and as well improve efficiency. Originality/value The study therefore highlighted the relevance of the school feeding programme and the inverse relationship it has with political interference. It again demonstrates the need to restructure the operations of the programme to meet the objective for which it was established.

The study assessed the implementation of the education policy for primary education in Zanzibar so as to enhance the quality of education as well as to ensure that every child has access to education. The descriptive statistics were employed to analyse the data from the period 2012-2016. The results indicated that the implementation of education policy in Zanzibar has a real influence on the access to education in primary schools.The number of students' enrolment and teachers increased remarkably over these periods; however, enrolment rates were fluctuated by genders and geographical distributions. The lowest rate of enrolment was in the North "B" which was 72.0% compared with other districts. The results also revealed that dropout rate was reasonable with 6.87%. The paper suggested that the MoEVT collaborate with the other education partners to strengthen the capacity of the teachers so as to ensure the quality of education in Zanzibar.

Over the past ten years, internationalization of higher education has become a priority in Kazakhstan's educational policy. The importance of internationalization is reflected by the increasing exchange of students and scientists, the emergence of many international programmes and collaboration of universities, increased funding for students and research projects. This work deals with the internationalization of higher education, therefore, begins with the concept of this phenomenon, explained the role of internationalization of higher education in Kazakhstan, and also discussed the changes occurring in the education system of Kazakhstan and its current state. The accession of Kazakhstan to the Bologna process, as well studied Kazakhstan's efforts for internationalization of higher education.

In this paper we have reviewed a case study which assess how China Foreign Direct Investment Policy (FDI) Stimulate Development in African Countries: The Case of Tanzania. FDI significantly increase the domestic in Africa both in monetary terms and also increase the gross of domestic product (GDP). Furthermore, FDI is an approach of changes the experiences and skills in different sectors like technology, market, infrastructures, education etc. African countries remain as recipient of the FDI inflows but still the out flows are very low especially in East African countries (Tanzania is one among the East African Countries). Also suggest that it is the time now African leaders to rethink again about their investment strategy to ensure other sectors like education, technology and infrastructures. Thus, provides more room for investors in those particular areas. In addition to that, the leaders must change their economic policy to attract more investors to invest in different sectors.

This paper uses a Probit model to identify if parental preference in expenditure plays a significant role in children schooling. The study reveals that parental preference of education expenditure significantly influences child schooling, regardless of wealth or community characteristics. While the preference for alcohol and tobacco, health, and food expenditure have a negative influence on child schooling. However, when we control poverty and community characteristics, they show no influence. This signifies that the influence of increasing preference in alcohol, health, and food expenditure to child schooling will only affect poor families.