Academic literature on the topic 'Ivorian students'

Since 2011, the Ivorian government has invested heavily in higher education to meet its labour market’s growing demand. In this article, we analyse the drivers of Ivorian student mobility from Côte d’Ivoire to France and Switzerland, highlighting the central role of migrant networks. We focus on the decision-making process and find that migration networks play an important role at every step: from initial aspirations to concrete plans and efforts to study abroad. Using 38 in depth interviews and two focus groups with Ivorian students who aspire to study in France and Switzerland, members of the education board, migration officers, and members of the Ivorian diaspora, we reveal that the functioning of the Ivorian higher education system is a factor of uncertainty for many students who consider that salvation can only come from migration. In addition, social representations linked to foreign diplomas inspire Ivorian students to choose international mobility. Migrant networks further encourage Ivorian students to move abroad because stories from successful migrants sharing their mobility experience are coupled with the provision of key resources to support mobility projects.

This article analyses the political, social, and economic factors that contributed to the Ivorian crisis-armed conflict and the ramifications of the conflict from 2002-2011 on Ivorians. It applies Adam Przeworski's eclectic political theory as the analytical framework. The study utilized a qualitative research design and data was obtained from key informants from the following three regions: Abidjan, Bouake, and Odienne. Varied participants were purposively selected and interviewed from various areas: academia, and Foreign Service including diplomats, politicians, civil servants, teachers, traders, university students, and refugees ensuring diverse perspectives. The findings revealed that the armed conflict affected the political, religious/cultural, social, and economic lives and the cohesion of the Ivorian people. Also, the armed conflict retarded the progress of the country and created a sense of distrust, disunity, and discrimination. The conflict hurt the health of the Ivorians, especially HIV/AIDS patients and the entire people's access to health facilities.

Introduction: Hypertension remains the main modifiable cardiovascular risk factor. It is not uncommon to find it in young black subjects. Objective: The aim of this study was to assess the prevalence of hypertension in the student population of Félix Houphouet-Boigny University (FHBU) of Abidjan and to identify other associated risk factors. Methodology: We conducted a community screening campaign which concerned students aged 18 to 40, from May 14 to November 14, 2018. An individual standardized questionnaire according to the model of the International Society of Hypertension (ISH) was used. Results: The prevalence of hypertension was 4.1% among the 3996 students included. The mean age was 24.2 ± 4.1 years with a male predominance at 66.6%. Factors significantly associated with a higher prevalence of hypertension were age (p = 0.000), male gender (p = 0.000) and obesity (p = 0.000). Other associated risk factors that impacted the prevalence of hypertension were diabetes and regular alcohol consumption. Diabetes was found in 0.9% of the students of whom 13.5% were hypertensive. Regular alcohol consumption was found in 7% of the students of whom 9% were hypertensive. Conclusion: HTN exists in Ivorian universities. Controlling the associated risk factors that we have identified could help reduce its prevalence. Keywords: Hypertension - Prevalence - Young people - Black race

Concerns about women educational leaders, their performance within primary schools, their approaches to leadership, including the hindrances experienced in the school headship have received few if any attention in Côte d’Ivoire. This paper analyses how women principals lead their schools and contributed to schools’ advancement in challenging situations that stand in their ways. The authors used a qualitative approach to collect data through in-depth semi-structural interviews with five female principals in Ivorian elementary schools. Findings showed that women influence directly teachers’ commitment and indirectly students’ learning process as well, particularly those who have learning difficulties. Data also revealed that these female used to create an environment and academic support that gives attention to children, as these learning conditions are similar to that of their actual life at home. Based on the findings, we assumed that women leadership could be a significant contribution to students’ learning course, which in turn positively influence the school improvement. That is even consistent with the literature, which remains constant in the assertion that women leaders own some abilities, such as being caring, attentive, patient. In this regard, educational practitioners, policy makers and stakeholders should pay more attention to women primary school principals for empowering them to display their know-how, expertise and talent useful for the students’ learning process. That seems a possible backup for Ivorian education system to reduce the low academic achievement and enhance schools’ performance.

The authors of the article consider the features of teaching Russian as a foreign language (hereinafter referred to as RCT) to Ivorians at the Center for Open Education established on the basis of universities (Université méthodiste de Côte d’Ivoire, Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny, ETIC University) in October 2023 in the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire with the support of the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation. The purpose of this study is to describe approaches to teaching Ivorians the Russian language from scratch and the practice of working with African students, which allows to intensify the language learning process, optimize the amount of material studied, choose effective methods and techniques, and offer practical advice to RCT teachers beginning to explore the African continent. The research is based on the principles of competence-based, communicative-activity and ethnically oriented approaches in teaching RCT. To achieve this goal, the following research methods were used: questionnaires, observation, including the method of "unconscious internal observation", statistical methods of processing results, comparison, generalization of practical experience in teaching Russian to foreign students. The implementation of the Russian language teaching system developed by the authors of the article from scratch showed that this process achieves the greatest effectiveness when taking into account the characteristics of the African audience (emotionality, musicality, artistry of students) and including a large number of visual, media and audio materials. According to the authors of the article, the techniques of melodization and rhythmization of linguistic and didactic materials acquired particular importance in the learning process: they contributed to the establishment of trusting relationships between teachers and students, disclosed the requests of Ivorians for the content of education, and allowed taking into account the cultural interests of the audience. The demonstration of respect for Russian and African cultures in the development of the lesson program was carried out taking into account the comparative approach, which allowed students to focus on the peculiarities of Russia compared with Africa's. The use of gaming technologies made it possible for teachers to present material to students in different ways: working in pairs, groups (teams), the rapid change of activities caused by the game, contributed to the establishment of mutual contacts in a large audience (the number of students in the classroom could reach up to 100 people), relieving tension when communicating in a non-native language, unobtrusive introduction of grammatical and lexical material, as well as intensive enrichment of Ivorian students with information about Russian culture.

The pursuit of effective and quality education leads the Ivorian government to put in place strategies to improve the school context; the initial teaching method, the competency-based approach (APC) has evolved to become the reframed competency-based approach (APCR). Schools, for their part, will benefit from overall sanitation for their rehabilitation and the recruitment of teachers will be more selective. However, it is clear that despite these efforts, the academic level of students does not improve much. The recent evaluation of the CONFEMEN 2019 Education Systems Analysis Program demonstrates the delay accumulated by Ivorian students. This article therefore questions the effect of the teaching method as well as schooling conditions on the acquisition of academic skills among primary school learners. The use of a quantitative research method as well as second source documents made a significant contribution to the study. The analysis of the results indicated that the teaching method and study conditions have a major impact on learner results. In conducting our reflection, we will use a hierarchical linear model which is an extension of classic regression methods offering the possibility of capturing the information integrated in each of the learners' contexts of existence. This article is of capital importance insofar as it allows decision-makers to have a basis with a view to improving study conditions in Cote d'Ivoire.

In Côte-d’Ivoire French is used as the language of instruction at all levels of education except the foreign language departments in our universities. Today, the idea is to use EMI[1] in higher education. This requires full year training in intensive English. As the current conditions are not appropriate, the situation calls for reflection on an alternative solution: Training our students without necessarily resorting to a full academic year of intensive English. Considering the difficulties relating to the mobilization of human and material resources indispensable for a successful implementation of intensive English learning and taking account of the current teaching practices in our different departments, what didactic choices can allow the much needed training in our context? In order to answer this question I investigated the situation at the UFR-SEG[2]using a questionnaire and an interview guide. The conclusions of this study carried out in a constructivist and socio-constructivist perspective indicate that the majority of our trained students are unable to use English for instruction. My suggestions are threefold: Triangulation of didactic situations (didactic, a-didactic and non didactic situations), use of a multi-dimensional differentiated approach to instruction, and instruction based on learning strategies.

Le verbe gérer, tel qu’il est utilisé par les Ivoiriens, présente des caractéristiques syntaxiques et sémantiques particulières par rapport à celles du français standard. Pour bien comprendre le phénomène, nous avons enquêté trois catégories d’usagers du français : les élèves et étudiants, les locuteurs peu on non lettrés et enfin les cadres subalternes de l’administration et les universitaires. L’analyse du corpus oral a révélé un emploi abusif de gérer par les locuteurs là où on attend d’autres concepts. En fait, les énonciateurs agissent comme si ces termes du français standard ne parviennent pas à traduire explicitement la sensibilité et la culture ivoirienne. Mais cette trouvaille produit des néologismes suffisamment riches. Ils témoignent en même temps de la vitalité du français dans le pays au moment où chaque communauté francophone se bat pour légitimer au sein de la francophonie ses propres usances. The verb « gérer », as used by Ivorians, shows particular syntactic and semantic characteristics compared to those of standard French. To understand this phenomenon, we studied the discourse of three categories of French speakers : pupils and students, semiliterate and illiterate speakers, and finally administration officials and university teachers. The analysis of oral corpus revealed a misuse of the verb « gérer », where other concepts are expected. In fact, speakers act as if these terms of standard French fail to explicitly reflect the sensitivity and the Ivorian culture. But this discovery produces rather rich neologisms. They show the same time the vitality of French in the country when each French-speaking community is struggling to legitimize its own customary practices.

The Ivorian idiosyncrasy on the market of the French speaking universities in the south of Sahara is characterized by the overabundance of students. That is why we try to understand how corporate advertising contributes to the popularization of the practices of the student “clientele” recruitment process at the university Félix Houphouet-Boigny of Cocody. This work is essentially qualitative with the use of the direct observation technics and the semi-directive interviews with 20 university staffs of student recruitment process. It emerges from it that, on the one hand, the corporate advertising strategies during that operation of recruitment appear in three relation systems: the connections banking on the informal communication through affinities (kinship, friendship), the relations of transactions based on the communication of closeness and the relation of control centered on marketing approach. On the other hand, these strategies establish partly real irregularity sources due to the pouring of thousands (parallel recruitment) of the high school diploma new holders in that public university without taking into account their secondary school performances and the accommodation capacity. This results in the overabundance of students and the worsening of the education quality.

Learning outcomes After completion of this case, students will be able to: define and understand the external and internal components of the strategic management process; define and explain various alternative strategies that help companies create a sustainable competitive advantage; understand and explain the five main choices of entry mode that are available to organisations when considering entry into a foreign market, suggest an entry mode that is relevant to Standard Bank and explain the pros and cons of each entry mode; and understand how a company can offer or phase in its service offerings. Case overview/synopsis This case situates Sola David-Borha, CEO for the Africa Region at the Standard Bank Group, in April 2018, considering whether and how to expand into personal and business banking in Cote d’Ivoire – a country that Standard Bank had just re-entered, having exited there in 2003 because of the civil war. The bank has operations in 20 sub-Saharan African countries and its growth strategy is focussed on Africa. This strategy is reflected in its slogan: “Africa is our home. We drive her growth”. David-Borha has a number of questions on her mind. These include: can the bank offer financial services that will meet the needs of the Ivorian people, how can the bank expand into personal a business banking – indeed is rapid expansion into this sector the right decision for now? Complexity academic level Advanced/graduate courses in strategic management and international business. Supplementary materials Teaching Notes are available for educators only. Subject code CSS 5: International business.

La Côte d’Ivoire a vu apparaître ces dernières années un discours de sensibilisation des jeunes à l’entrepreneuriat, porté par les politiques publiques et vulgarisé de diverses manières. Cette recherche analyse, sur une durée de quatre ans, la mise en place d’un projet d’éducation à l’entrepreneuriat social et solidaire dans une université ivoirienne et ses effets sur les étudiants participants. Conduite par une démarche ethnographique qui met au centre la parole des acteurs et analyse leurs parcours biographiques, la thèse met en évidence le caractère novateur mais aussi quelques manquements du projet, n’ayant pas permis sa pérennisation : elle pointe les quiproquos qui expliquent cet inaboutissement, mais qui peuvent être dépassés par des redéfinitions de rôles et des relais institutionnels. En ce qui concerne les étudiants, la caractérisation de leurs transitions identitaires au fil du projet révèle des socialisations familiales et sociales favorables à la prise d’initiative entrepreneuriale, auxquelles s’ajoutent des facteurs individuels mais aussi collectifs émanant de la dynamique des groupes constitués pour le projet. À l’issue du projet, les effets sur leur devenir sont objectivés selon différentes amplitudes, allant d’un simple effet sensibilisateur à des formes d’expertise entrepreneuriale. Ces résultats, produits à l’échelle des individus, éclairent plus largement le contexte social et formatif ivoirien : il ressort de notre analyse que la pratique de l’entrepreneuriat social et solidaire s’inscrit dans des savoirs socioculturels qui gagneraient à être exhumés, reconnus et valorisés pour la construction de dispositifs de formation pérennes et adaptés La thèse débouche sur des pistes favorables à une ingénierie de l’éducation à l’entrepreneuriat qui participe à cette valorisation des « déjà-là » individuel et collectif
In recent years, Côte d’Ivoire has seen the emergence of a discourse aimed at raising awareness of entrepreneurship among young people, driven by public policies and disseminated in various ways. This research analyzes, over a four-year period, the implementation of a social and solidarity entrepreneurship education project at an Ivorian university and its effects on participating students. Conducted through an ethnographic approach that centers on the voices of the participants and analyzes their biographical journeys, the thesis highlights the innovative aspects as well as some shortcomings of the project, which prevented its sustainability. It uncovers the misunderstandings that hindered the project's completion, though these could be mitigated with revised roles and institutional reinforcement. Regarding the students, the characterization of their identity transitions throughout the project reveals family and social socializations conducive to entrepreneurial initiative, alongside individual and collective factors stemming from the group dynamics created for the project. At the project's conclusion, the effects on their future trajectories vary in magnitude, ranging from a mere awareness-raising impact to forms of entrepreneurial expertise. These findings, drawn from individual experiences, provide broader insights into the Ivorian social and educational context: our analysis suggests that the practice of social and solidarity entrepreneurship is rooted in sociocultural knowledge that deserves to be unearthed, recognized, and valued for the development of sustainable and adapted educational frameworks. The thesis offers pathways towards educational engineering in entrepreneurship that supports the valorization of both individual and collective pre-existing knowledge

On the night between 1st and 2nd November 2007, a 21-year-old English student called Meredith Kercher was killed in Perugia, Italy. After a long and controversial court case, the American, Amanda Knox, and the Italian, Raffaele Sollecito, after initially being found guilty, were acquitted of the crime. The only convict remains the Ivorian Rudi Guede. The case aroused unexpected media attention and international outcries. Many questions on the whole affair remain unresolved, which has contributed to adding conspiracy-like theories to standard criminological analysis. This chapter intends to provide a reconstruction of the events, highlighting the reasons that explain the case's great media attention.