Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Executive Summary -- Sommaire executive -- 1. Introduction -- SMICT Study -- Methodology of the Study -- Countries in the Study -- Structure of the Report -- 2. Curriculum Policies, Instructional Practices, and Assessment -- General Trends in Curriculum Policy -- Aims and Content of SMICT Education -- Instructional Processes -- Assessment -- The Way Forward -- 3. School Context and Instructional Resources -- Context in Which Resources for SMICT are Used -- Instructional Resources -- Cost of Instructional Resources -- Optimizing Opportunities and Resources -- Funding Science and ICT Resources -- The Way Forward -- 4. SMICT Teachers, Teacher Education and Teacher Support -- SMICT Teachers -- SMICT Teacher Education -- Teacher Upgrading, Teacher Career Progression and Alternative Teacher Education Policies -- Teacher In-service Support and Development -- Discussion -- The Way Forward -- 5. SMICT Education: Toward a Strategy for Development -- National Strategies in Development of SMICT Education -- Toward a Strategy for SMICT Education Development -- Curriculum Reform: The Need for Coherence -- Teacher Education and Teacher Support -- Upscaling and Sustainability of Promising Practices -- Appendix A -- References -- List of Tables -- 1. Gross National Income for the Countries in SMICT Study, 2000 -- 2. HDI Rank for the Countries in SMICT Study, 2000 -- 3. Costs per Student in Various SMICT Countries, 2001 -- 4. Expenditure on Education -- 5. Example of Two Days of a Timetable of a Typical Grade 10 (Junior Secondary) Learner's Timetable in South Africa -- 6. Practical Work Cost Spectrum, Showing Examples of Typical Requirements -- 7. Some Characteristic Figures on Computer Penetration -- 8. Specific Recommendations for SMICT Curriculum.

9. Summary of Recommendations in Teacher Education -- List of Figures -- 1. The 10 Countries in the SMICT Study -- 2. ICT Equipment Costs -- 3. Strategy for Development of (SMICT) Education -- 4. Curriculum Spider Web -- List of Boxes -- 1. Promising Practice-Life Science, A New Junior Science Subject in Junior Secondary Schools in Namibia -- 2. Promising Practice-Science Teacher Association of Nigeria (STAN) and Its Role in Science Curriculum Development -- 3. Promising Practice-Science Resource Centres in Ghana as a Cost-reducing Measure in the Provision of Science and ICT Equipment to Schools -- 4. Promising Practice-SchoolNet Namibia: Affordable ICT Infrastructure for Schools in Namibia -- 5. Promising Practice-The In-In-Out System of Teacher Education in Ghana -- 6. Promising Practice-Science Education in Secondary Schools (SESS) Project in Tanzania -- 7. Promising Practice-Educators'Network in South Africa.