This research was made possible through the assistance and support of many people and it is difficult to list them all. I am especially grateful to my primary and second supervisors (Dr. Barbara Ridley and Dr. Yann Lebeau respectively), in the School of Education and Lifelong Learning, University of East Anglia, for their insightful guidance. Their patience in reading and re-reading the manuscript and inspiring comments enabled me to complete the research successfully. My sincere gratitude also goes to my examiners (Professor David Bridges and Dr Jane Cullen) for facilitating the viva in a wonderful setting and giving me the last opportunity to share my views. Their insight about the problem helped me to look deeper into the problem for further research and their intellectual discourse will remain in my memory forever. I wish to express my sincere gratitude to the CARE and the University of East Anglia for awarding me an extremely rare studentship award, without which everything was impossible for me. I also thank all members of CARE for their cooperation and kind assistance during my stay in UEA. I also wish to express sincere appreciation to all persons involved in the study as informants from the Ethiopian Civil Service College, Institute of Distance Education and the regional and study centre of Arba-Minch in particular. The coordinators, and distance education tutors made invaluable contributions for the success of the study. My great appreciation also goes to the distance students who participated in the study by filling in the questionnaire and responding to interviews with deep concerns. Without the support of those individuals, I could never have succeeded in the study. However, any deficiencies in the report can be attributed to me alone.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:bl.uk/oai:ethos.bl.uk:569332 |
| Date | January 2010 |
| Creators | Fayessa, Deribssa A. |
| Publisher | University of East Anglia |
| Source Sets | Ethos UK |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Source | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/10611/ |
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