Education in Timor-Leste
Education in Timor-Leste: Envisioning the Future
... But education alone cannot bring about a new society and new relationships between citizens; that requires interactions throughout the society and its ...Nevertheless, education is considered a key factor ...
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An exploration of an Australian teacher educator working with a group of vocational education professionals from Timor Leste to develop their knowledge and practice in vocational education
... His dark skin glowed with perspiration and he showed the whites of his eyes as he earnestly revealed that he had been fined by the transit police for not swiping his prepaid transport card at the train station before ...
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Becoming citizens: civil society activism and social change in Timor Leste
... Lusophone education which served to strengthen Portuguese as the language of the resistance, and provided leadership skills to youth which contributed to their later involvement in human rights ...
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What do health workers in Timor-Leste want, know and do? Findings from a national health labour market survey
... There are a number of areas of internal contradictions in our findings, which merit more reflection—for example, health workers report positively on initial training and re- port relatively frequent in-service trainings ...
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Under utilization of antenatal care services in Timor Leste: results from Demographic and Health Survey 2009–2010
... maternal education, parity, maternal autonomy (decision making on her own health), mater- nal occupation, partner’s education, distance to the health facility, and wealth status are known to be associated ...
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The oral health of children in the district of Dill, Timor Leste
... in Timor-Leste in the next decade if there no action taken to reduce the prevalence of dental caries and periodontal ...the Timor-Leste National Oral Health Survey ...public education ...
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Epidemiology of soil transmitted helminth infections in Timor Leste
... The current WHO guidelines use prevalence of infection as the most em- phasised indicator of the success of worm control programmes, whilst the ‘‘condition of latrines and the quality of water supplies in schools may ...
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Does mobile phone ownership predict better utilization of maternal and newborn health services? a cross sectional study in Timor Leste
... Demographic characteristics of women with a mobile phone and those who did not have a mobile phone were described by the frequency and percentage, and were compared using the chi-square test for categorical data. The ...
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‘Buying Peace’ in Timor-Leste: Another UN-success Story?
... prioritising education and health care as well as small-scale agricultural projects as a means to achieve food security (Anderson 2013) and respond to hunger periods (lapar biasa) previously commonly reported in ...
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Factors associated with non-utilisation of health service for childbirth in Timor-Leste: evidence from the 2009-2010 Demographic and Health Survey
... maternal education, paternal education, maternal occupation, birth order, frequency of antenatal care (ANC) visits, ANC service components, intake of iron during pregnancy, pregnancy complication, and age ...
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Smoking and smokeless tobacco use in nine South and Southeast Asian countries: prevalence estimates and social determinants from Demographic and Health Surveys
... The sample size of women interviewed was greater than for men since DHS mainly aimed to estimate indicators related to mother and child health (Table 1). In the 2008 Philippines DHS, men were not sampled, whereas in 2007 ...
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The ecology of language planning in Timor-Leste
... to Timor-Leste in the form of INTERFET, the United Nations (UN) and a large number of international English-speaking aid ...in Timor-Leste was that learning English would resolve the ...
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Patterns of Political Party Competition, Dominance and Institutionalism: The Case of Timor-Leste
... The strength of this partnership was formidable; the Portuguese authorities estimated this coalition enjoyed support from around 90 per cent of the population. 37 Independently of its coalition partner, FRETILIN worked ...
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Evidence based malaria control in Timor Leste from 2006 to 2012
... The introduction of bivalent RDTs in 2011 and its scaling up resulted in an 80% decrease in the number of clinical cases and a 69% decrease in the number of total malaria cases reported in 2011 as compared to 2010. ...
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Timoroan: National Identity in Timor-Leste
... East Timor, was adopted at the congress by acclamation and it contained many of the key points of the Constitution adopted in 2002 including the separation of Church and State, between the Army and the Police ...
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A case of Timor Leste: From independence to instability or prosperity?
... of Timor-Leste is the newest and one of the smallest sovereign states in ...independence. Timor-Leste has the highest rate of poverty than any other country in Asia and it has been suffering ...
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Language and identity in Timor-Leste
... of Education “final priorities” for discretionary grant programs in FY ...Defense Education Act of 1958 and the National Security Language Initiative of ...
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Timor LestePresidential Elections 2017: An Epistemological and Political Perspective
... in Timor-Leste's society, such as: a compulsory school system and, as far as health policy is concerned, defends the use of traditional medicine; argues that Timor-Leste should become a member of the ...
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A aplicação da usucapião em Timor-Leste [Adverse possession in Timor-Leste]
... em Timor-Leste têm sido um dos problemas mais complicados de resolver desde de que o país se tornou independente em ...de Timor-Leste uma tempestade perfeita das questões fundiárias ...
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Spatial and temporal patterns of dengue infections in Timor Leste, 2005–2013
... Health, Timor-Leste and consisted of patient records con- taining 4546 notifications, classified as DF, suspected dengue cases, DHF, and DSS from January 2005 to December ...of Timor-Leste ...
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