Assessing Basic Education Service Delivery in the Philippines
A World Bank study assesses the quality of basic education services and the strength of existing systems used to allocate and manage public education resources…The main findings and policy suggestions of the study are presented as a series of policy notes on specific issues as well as a combined report… There is a final report that covers everything which is available here: World Bank. 2016. Assessing basic education service delivery in the Philippines: public education expenditure tracking and quantitative service delivery study…A set of 8 notes that break out the individual issues. These are also publicly available at:
Increasing investment to improve basic education outcomes in the Philippines
Assessing systems for hiring and deploying teachers in the Philippines
Developing a proficient and motivated teacher workforce in the Philippines
Building better learning environments in the Philippines
Assessing school-based management in the Philippines
Providing schools with enough resources to deliver quality education in the Philippines
Assessing the role played by local government in supporting basic education in the Philippines
Understanding the drivers of public school performance and efficiency in the Philippines
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