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EduNews - Issue 10
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 | Issue No. 10
September 2009 | Highlights
- [Feature Report] The Towers of Learning: Higher Education in Sri Lanka
- [Feature Blog] Pakistan Reform Education Blog
- [Press Release] Philippines: Private Sector Participation in Education Key to Education...
- [Feature Story] World Bank Expands its Support to Higher Education in Vietnam
Recent Publications & Reports
- Rethinking School Feeding: Social Safety Nets, Child Development, and the Education...
- Using the Results of a National Assessment of Educational Achievement
- Knowledge Brief: Per Student Financing in Europe & Central Asia (ECA) School Systems
- Measuring the Quality of Education and Health Services: The Use of Perception Data from...
- School Enrollment, Selection and Test Scores
- Own and Sibling Effects of Conditional Cash Transfer Programs: Theory and Evidence from...
- Are There Diminishing Returns to Transfer Size in Conditional Cash Transfers?
- Early Childhood Education: Program Evaluation Package
Recent Events
- Consultative workshop on ICT and education indicators
- eBooks & Affordable Access to Digital Content for Teachers, Health Care Workers & Agri...
Education - Did you know ...?
- EdStats: The State of Education |
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Highlights
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The Towers of Learning: Higher Education in Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka is poised on the crest of two great waves of opportunity. The first wave can transform the nation from a low-income country to a middle-income country. The second wave can transform the nation from a country in conflict to a country at peace. This report recommends that the higher education system should inspire the country’s values, ethics and social institutions so that Sri Lanka becomes celebrated as an enlightened and peaceful multi-ethnic, multi-religious and multi-cultural society.
Pakistan Education Reform Programs: Ambitions and Innovations
In contrary to looking at Pakistan through series of unfortunate events shown on international news, the author blogs about Pakistan's education from a positive perspective in End Poverty in South Asia (a blog maintained by the South Asia Region of the World Bank Group). World Bank's projects in Sindh and Punjab provinces aim to contribute to the country's ambitious plan on enhancing teacher quality.
Philippines: Private Sector Participation in Education Key to Education Reform in Developing Countries
The responsibility of educating people has always fallen on the shoulders of governments across the globe because of the complexity of the task, but a new World Bank study shows that deepening partnerships with the private sector is becoming a reliable way of financing quality education and making it accessible especially to the poor.
World Bank Expands its Support to Higher Education in Vietnam
The World Bank recently approved a US$50 million credit for the Vietnam's Higher Education Development Policy Program, the Bank’s first Development Policy Lending Operation in the higher education sub-sector. In this interview, Jeffrey Waite, Lead Education Specialist and Human Development Sector Coordinator in the World Bank's Vietnam Office, provides insights into the program. Watch the interview on 
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Recent Publications & Reports
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Rethinking School Feeding: Social Safety Nets, Child Development, and the Education Sector
By Donald Bundy, Carmen Burbano, Margaret Grosh, Aulo Gelli, Matthew Jukes, and Lesley Drake
The global food, fuel, and financial crises have given new prominence to school feeding as a potential safety net and as a social support measure that helps keep children in school. This publication was written jointly by the World Bank Group and the World Food Programme (WFP), building on the comparative advantages of both organizations. It examines the evidence base for school feeding programs with the objective of better understanding how to develop and implement effective school feeding programs in two contexts: as a productive safety net that is part of the response to the social shocks of the global crises, and as a fiscally sustainable investment in human capital as part of long-term global efforts to achieve Education for All and to provide social protection to the poor.
Using the Results of a National Assessment of Educational Achievement
By Thomas Kellaghan, Vincent Greaney, and T. Scott Murray
Measuring student learning outcomes is increasingly recognized as necessary, not only for monitoring a school system's success but also for improving education quality. The use of assessment results in order to improve student learning is a critical challenge for developing countries.This book brings together much of the existing research on what actually works in translating data from national assessments into actionable information and how to bring together stakeholders in conversations about this information in ways that will improve education quality and student learning. The book seeks to maximize an appreciation for the value of national data on student learning and to assist countries in fully exploiting the information that their assessments yield.
Knowledge Brief: Per Student Financing in Europe & Central Asia (ECA) School Systems
By Larry Forgy
By the turn of the century, the decreasing efficiency and deteriorating quality of education systems in Eastern Europe and Central Asia (ECA) had reached a critical point. Many countries were facing serious resource allocation problems in general education. While the region had seen sweeping political, economic and population changes, countries continued to manage schools with traditional and centralized institutions. Budgets were allocated on the basis of past history, even as school age populations declined and moved. Consequently, the region had an excessive number of schools, with very low student/teacher ratios. Based on case studies, this brief explains the concept and method used for per student funding that may be the key to increasing quality of education in the ECA region.
Measuring the Quality of Education and Health Services: The Use of Perception Data from Indonesia
By Basab Dasgupta, Ambar Narayan, and Emmanuel Skoufias
Satisfaction surveys offer a potentially convenient and cost-effective means for measuring the quality of services. However, concerns about subjectivity and selection bias impede greater use of satisfaction data. This paper analyzes satisfaction data about health and educational services from the 2006 second round of the Governance and Decentralization Survey in Indonesia to assess whether satisfaction data can serve as reliable indicators of quality, despite dubiously high levels of reported satisfaction.
School Enrollment, Selection and Test Scores
By Deon Filmer and Norbert Schady
This paper uses data from Cambodia to test the association between schooling attained and test scores. The results show that a program that provides scholarships to poor students had a large effect on school enrollment and attendance, which increased by approximately 25 percentage points. However, there is no evidence that, 18 months after the scholarships were awarded, recipient children did any better on mathematics and vocabulary tests than they would have in the absence of the program. The paper discusses results that suggest that the self-selection of lower-ability students into school in response to the program is an important part of the explanation.
Own and Sibling Effects of Conditional Cash Transfer Programs: Theory and Evidence from Cambodia
By Francisco H.G. Ferreira, Deon Filmer, and Norbert Schady
Conditional cash transfers have been adopted by a large number of countries in the past decade. Although the impacts of these programs have been studied extensively, understanding of the economic mechanisms through which cash and conditions affect household decisions remains incomplete. This paper uses evidence from a program in Cambodia, where eligibility varied substantially among siblings in the same household, to illustrate these effects.
Are There Diminishing Returns to Transfer Size in Conditional Cash Transfers?
By Deon Filmer and Norbert Schady
There is increasing evidence that conditional cash transfer programs can have large impacts on school enrollment, including in very poor countries. However, little is known about which features of program design -- including the amount of the cash that is transferred, how frequently conditions are monitored, whether non-complying households are penalized, and the identity or gender of the cash recipients -- account for the observed outcomes. This paper analyzes the impact of one feature of program design -- namely, the magnitude of the transfer.
Early Childhood Education: Program Evaluation Package
Early Childhood Education (ECE) for children below six years is now globally acknowledged as a sound investment, not only for its contribution towards universal completion of primary education but also for life long learning and development. A significant issue in ECE is that of assuring quality. This ECE Evaluation package has been designed in response to this need for assessment of the quality of ECE in India, specifically for pre-school center. However, it can be adapted for other programs as it essentially evaluates inputs, processes and outcomes at a systemic level through a randomized survey mode.
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Recent Events
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Consultative workshop on ICT and education indicators
Busan, South Korea
July 7-9, 2009
ICTs are increasingly being used in education systems around the world. How do we know what the impact of such use is? How should we monitor and assessment the use of ICTs in education? How can, should and might answers to these questions impact the policy planning process? This workshop will help address such challenges and focus on common sets of 'ICT in education indicators' that many organizations have begun to develop, to help guide their activities, and those of their developmental partners, in this area.
eBooks & Affordable Access to Digital Content for Teachers, Health Care Workers & Agricultural Extension Agents in Southern Africa
Washington D.C,USA
July 1, 2009
The central objective of the Affordable Access Program of the International Association of Digital Publications (IADP) is to improve the training and effectiveness of people who work, or intend to work, in support of poor communities, including agricultural extension officers, in-service teachers, nurses, social workers, and doctors who practice telemedicine. The immediate beneficiaries are the students themselves, while the ultimate beneficiaries will be the farmers, school children, patients and families whom they serve. Watch this event on webinar.
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Education - Did you know?
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The State of Education statistical analysis module is a useful tool that reflects latest education data from 2007/2008. This module includes charts, maps, and Top 10 lists on Access and Quality indicators that users may copy into reports and presentations. Users may also view example charts in the 'Highlighted Data' section of the EdStats homepage.
Visit The State of Education statistical analysis module to find more out about this function.
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