| dc.description.abstract | One of the biggest challenges to providing high quality education in Eritrea has been the provision of enough teachers who are professionally competent to meet the demands of the education system. Consequently, the upgrading qualification of teachers through ln-service Training (inset) has received concerted attention from the education authorities since independence in 1991. The target goup at which the programme is directed are those elementary school teachers who were recruited and who, according to the Government's policy, are regarded as unqualified. The primary goal of the inset is to provide these teachers with the basic teachers qualifications. The second goal is to assist them in their professional development as teachers. The study aims to evaluate the inset programme that was undertaken from
2OOO/2001 and 2OOl/2002 during the summer holidays. In order to place the study in a wider context, relevant literature with regard to the definition of inset, the aims of inset inset in other countries, modes of delivery of inset and evaluation of
inset were reviewed. As part of the situation analysis in Eritrea interviews were conducted with six trainees, inset trainers, two school principals where the trainees are currently working and the Director of Human Resources Development at
the Ministry of Education. ln evaluating the inset programme, the following aspects were considered: practical arrangements (venue, accommodation) of the inset, course materials (handouts), course presentation, practical value of the inset, and incentives/reward. | en_US |
