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A delegation from Uzbekistan takes part in Human Capital Project Coordinator’s Forum in Washington DC (Uzbek MFA) On April 9-12, 2019, Uzbek delegation composed of First Deputy Public Education Alisher Umarov and the Head of the State Inspectorate for Supervision of Education Quality, Ulugbek Tashkenbaev, takes part in the Human Capital Project Coordinator’s Forum and the Conclave of Ministers held by the World Bank in Washington…
Belarus, WB to sign $300m worth of loan agreements in 2019
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Private education A class apart The Economist-Apr 11, 2019 IF SPENDING IS a measure of what matters, then the people of the developing world place a high value on brains. While private spending on education has not …
Private education is booming in new markets and new forms The Economist-Apr 11, 2019 | In more recent years the state has dominated education in the rich world, with the private sector restricted to the elite and the pious. In the developing world, too, …
Private education can complement the public sort The Economist-Apr 11, 2019 Parents prefer private schools. A global survey in 2017 found that they were a lot more likely to give the teaching at their children’s school a positive rating if it …
School tracking and intergenerational social mobility
College Grads Sell Stakes in Themselves to Wall Street | Instead of taking out loans, students can agree to hand over part of their future earnings in return for investment…
Reimagining education for the 21st century | Financial Times and World Bank chool blog competition winners…
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The World Bank and the Higher School of Economics welcome applications for the upcoming: First International Summer School: The Role of Education in National and Regional Socioeconomic Development | July 8–12, 2019, Moscow | We encourage applications by students and early-career researchers from Russia, the CIS, Eastern Europe and China who pursue various perspectives in the Economics of Education and Education Policy. The Summer School aims to demonstrate the unity of theoretical and applied research on the Economics of Education and Education Policy. The main goal of the Summer School is to contribute to the development of theory and practice in the Economics of Education and Education Policy by foregrounding the latest international research and practice in this field. Оnline registration form