Human Capital (Education News and Research 133) World Bank hails ongoing Uzbekistan reforms Investing in young Radu is investing in Moldova’s future Improving the Efficiency and Equity of Public Education Spending: The Case of Moldova World Bank brings Italian experience to Eastern Croatia Are There Social Returns to Education in Developing Countries? More Education, LessContinue reading “Human Capital”
Measuring Human Capital
Measuring Human Capital (Education News and Research 132) Measuring Human Capital | Students around the world are going to school but are not learning – an emerging gap in human capital formation. To understand this gap, this paper introduces a new data set measuring learning in 164 countries and territories. The data cover 98 percentContinue reading “Measuring Human Capital”
Beyond Basic Education
Beyond Basic Education (Education News and Research 131) Beyond Basic Education: The Economic Case for Expanding Schooling in Vietnam When the World Bank published its Human Capital Index in October 2018, Vietnam ranked 48th out of 157 countries. In education, Vietnam ranked 27th in terms of harmonized learning outcomes, higher even than the regional average. This is quite an achievementContinue reading “Beyond Basic Education”
Education Systems
Education Systems (Education News and Research 130) Systems What came first? The can or the can opener? The answer to this age-old question is that the modern can and can opener were invented at exactly the same moment. This had to be true because a can without a can opener (yes, they existed) is of very little value, andContinue reading “Education Systems”
Education and Equity
Education and Equity (Education News and Research 129) Education Equity in the Russian Federation This report outlines the findings from an analysis of inequity in Russian pre-university education. The report seeks to answer to the following questions: what the magnitude of educational inequity in Russia is and what are its sources; what practices might potentiallyContinue reading “Education and Equity”
Addressing the Learning Crisis
Education News and Research 128 The Education Crisis: Being in School Is Not the Same as Learning World Bank, Gates Foundation, DFID Join Forces to Improve Education Quality Around the World – Global Education Policy Dashboard The Right Investments to Address the Human Capital Crisis Discussing the Human Capital Index in Turkey The distance betweenContinue reading “Addressing the Learning Crisis”
Measure…Spend…Disseminate (Education News and Research 127)
Measuring learning to avoid “flying blind” Just three weeks after becoming Minister of Education in Peru, my team and I received the results from the 2012 round of PISA. Peru was ranked last. Not next to last, not bottom 10%. It was last… Education spending and student learning outcomes How much does financing matter forContinue reading “Measure…Spend…Disseminate (Education News and Research 127)”
Education Sector Recovery (Education News and Research 126)
Belarus to cooperate with World Bank’s Human Capital Project On 8 January, Belarus’ prime minister signed Resolution No.2р to set up an interdepartmental working group to cooperate with the World Bank as part of the Human Capital Project… Education Sector Recovery | Disaster Recovery Guidance Series This Note provides practical guidance to national governments aboutContinue reading “Education Sector Recovery (Education News and Research 126)”
Teachers (Education News and Research 125)
Teachers and trust: cornerstones of the Finnish education system | Jaime Saavedra, Hanna Alasuutari, Marcela Gutierrez | Public school teachers in Brazil, Indonesia or Peru have stable jobs, enjoy high level of legal protection, and are part of teacher unions that shield them politically. Public school teachers in Finland also have stable jobs and are rarelyContinue reading “Teachers (Education News and Research 125)”
Education and Equity in Russia (Education News and Research 124)
Education Equity in the Russian Federation The Russian Federation does well on educational equity, a fact that is perhaps not as well known as Russian performance on levels of international assessments… Russian students show the lowest ‘achievement gap’ between students from the highest and lowest socio-economic groups… Russian education equity performance is likely on accountContinue reading “Education and Equity in Russia (Education News and Research 124)”
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