Twelve-year-old Bridget and her friends are excited when they get admitted into one of the most prestigious boarding secondary schools in Kumba, Cameroon. Passing exams is the least of their worries. But surviving the new academic and social culture with hormone driven adolescent boys and unscrupulous seniors remain a challenge. Can the ground rules for survival Bridget and her new girlfriends adopt protect them from the threats they face constantly from the seniors, teachers and the adults in the local community? Can they handle all the distractions in addition to the changes their pubescent bodies are undergoing
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Cameroonian researchers at the Institute of Behavioral Studies and Research (IRESCO), with support f...
Currently, there is little academic research into the causes of anxiety and transition management in...
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The aim of this research was to investigate the wellbeing of Year 13 girls in high-decile, high perf...
This paper examines how high levels of social–cultural connectedness and academic excellence, inflec...
The purpose of this study was to ascertain the educational aspirations and future expectations of wo...
The Australian 'mockumentary' Summer Heights High depicts a fictional secondary school. Among the pr...
“Die ersten Kostschülerinnen am Meru” (“The first boarding school girls at Meru“). In front of a mis...
The paper is based on four hours of interviews with two female high school students in Western Canad...
International audienceIn the schoolyard, pupils are subjected to several prohibitions such as showin...
Researchers hold numerous perceptions of the educational aspirations and future career choices of te...
There has been persistent reports of low performance of girls in final examination of Senior High Sc...
This master thesis explores the lives of young Tanzanian girls. The field work that the thesis is ba...
Globally, girls are less likely to attend school than boys; over 132 million girls are out of school...
Unequal power and gender norms expose adolescent girls to higher risks of HIV, early marriages, preg...
Cameroonian researchers at the Institute of Behavioral Studies and Research (IRESCO), with support f...
Currently, there is little academic research into the causes of anxiety and transition management in...
This paper examines how high levels of social–cultural connectedness and academic excellence, inflec...
The aim of this research was to investigate the wellbeing of Year 13 girls in high-decile, high perf...
This paper examines how high levels of social–cultural connectedness and academic excellence, inflec...
The purpose of this study was to ascertain the educational aspirations and future expectations of wo...
The Australian 'mockumentary' Summer Heights High depicts a fictional secondary school. Among the pr...
“Die ersten Kostschülerinnen am Meru” (“The first boarding school girls at Meru“). In front of a mis...
The paper is based on four hours of interviews with two female high school students in Western Canad...