A Comparative Trend Analysis of Changes in Teacher Rate of Absenteeism in South Africa

The aim of this research was to analyze the changes in the rate of teacher absenteeism among South African provinces as a major in-class factor contributing to student performance and effective learning. Time series analysis of exponential smoothing, moving average, and seasonal autoregressive integrated moving average model (SARIMA) were applied to model and assess the designed hypothesis as a major factor for educational advancement using different provincial data input from the Department of Basic Education in South Africa. The performances of all the models were analyzed using statistical indexes: Mean Square Error (MSE) and Mean Absolute Percentage Error (MAPE). The overall performance showed that the absence rate increased statistically significantly from 2011 to 2017. Thus, this opinion was held by more than half of the general populace depending on the province type. The findings of this research could assist the management of the basic education department in general, and in schools in particular, to understand the problem of absenteeism and thereby enabling the implementation of effective strategies that can be used to curb the practice.

Average rate (student - teacher) in Saudi Arabia in the light of international comparisons: مؤشر معدل ( طالب / معلم ) بالمملكة العربية السعودية رؤية في ضوء المقارنات الدولية

The study aimed to make comparisons in the student/teacher rate with some developed countries and global rates by reviewing the global average and the average of Arab countries and the target within the development plan in the index (student/teacher), and to identify the reality of the student/teacher rate in Saudi Arabia through Official statistics, identify the level of achieving a student/teacher rate between the different educational areas in The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and determine the actual rate in the three primary, middle and secondary levels of both sexes, and identify the level of achieving the student/teacher index rate in Saudi Arabia in light of the classification of schools according to student numbers. The researcher used the office approach. The most important results of the study were: The consensus of the target in the development plan with the global average student/teacher rate index of 25 students per teacher, there is a disparity in the index rates between the selected countries and ranging from one teacher for every 11 students to 23 students, that the actual student/teacher index is far from the target in the development plan. 9th and far from the global average, there is a disparity in the rates of the index in the Kingdom between the main educational areas and ranging from 6.9 in the courtyard to 12.9 in Tabuk, and this can be assumed that the indicator decline in low-density areas with the availability of schools at full capacity, that 45.2% of boys' schools and 38.7% Girls' schools do not exceed 100 students.