The effects of delaying tracking in secondary school: evidence from the 1999 education reform in Poland Maciej Jakubowski, Harry Anthony Patrinos, Emilio Ernesto Porta & Jerzy Wiśniewski Education Economics (2016) Delaying tracking, extending students’ exposure to a general academic education and increasing their time on task on basic competences (reading, mathematics) could improve academic outcomes.Continue reading “The effects of delaying tracking in secondary school: evidence from the 1999 education reform in Poland”
Interview with Harry Anthony Patrinos, Practice manager, Education, World Bank
Interview with Harry Anthony Patrinos, Practice manager, Education, World Bank Maximising skills for jobs and jobs for skills: the power of partnerships, 7 and 8 December 2015 SHOW MORE
Resilience, refugees, and education for change
As the world struggles to cope with the stream of refugees coming out of Syria, there is an urgent need to advance education opportunities. This is not to just thwart radicalization, as United Nations special envoy for global education Gordon Brown argues, but to ensure that we invest in building refugee children’s human capital. LessonsContinue reading “Resilience, refugees, and education for change”
Robots: What can workers do to protect themselves from automation?
Robots: What can workers do to protect themselves from automation? “The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race,” Stephen Hawking. Photo: The Terminator / Orion Pictures Stephen Hawking has warned that artificial intelligence could end the human race. The development of intelligent machines could pose a major threat to humanity. Sometime inContinue reading “Robots: What can workers do to protect themselves from automation?”
Comparable Estimates of Returns to Schooling around the World
Comparable Estimates of #Returns to #Schooling around the @WorldBank http://www-wds.worldbank.org/servlet/WDSContentServer/WDSP/IB/2014/09/04/000158349_20140904084836/Rendered/PDF/WPS7020.pdf … Claudio E. Montenegro World Bank and Department of Economics, University of Chile Harry Anthony Patrinos World Bank Rates of return to investments in schooling have been estimated since the late 1950s. In the 60-plus year history of such estimates, there have been several attempts toContinue reading “Comparable Estimates of Returns to Schooling around the World”
School Autonomy & Accountability in Thailand
Thailand’s education system is in the midst of a reform process that began in 1999, with the aim of establishing a new path for student-centered learning, improving education quality, and moving the country into a more competitive position in the region. However, 15 years into the reform process, the education sector is not producing theContinue reading “School Autonomy & Accountability in Thailand”
Reflections on The Economist’s Higher Education Forum
By Harry A. Patrinos At The Economist’s Higher Education Forum in New York in October I spoke about how higher education can be expanded. I believe that we need a fair and sustainable cost-recovery model at the university level using future earnings to finance current education. This is an issue that generated much attention at the ForumContinue reading “Reflections on The Economist’s Higher Education Forum”
Literacy rate in Papua New Guinea Increases due to early grade reading interventions
Literacy Rate In PNG Increases : Read PNG Papua New Guinea Today | November 13, 2015 PORT MORESBY, November 13, 2015 – Literacy rates in two provinces of PNG have seen outstanding improvements in just three years, according to new results from the READ PNG project, released this week in Port Moresby. Under READ PNGContinue reading “Literacy rate in Papua New Guinea Increases due to early grade reading interventions”
Funding Universities — Guest column in The Korean Times
Funding universities Guest Column in The Korean Times, 25 October 2015 https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/opinon/2015/10/197_189411.html By Harry Anthony Patrinos There has been a tremendous increase in the number of university students and graduates. This should have led to decrease in the rate of return to investment to higher education. The returns to higher education are higher in mostContinue reading “Funding Universities — Guest column in The Korean Times”
Higher education
Higher education: returns are high but we need to fund it better This week I was invited to speak at The Economist’s Higher Education Forum in New York to share my thoughts on how higher education can be expanded. I believe that we need a fair and sustainable cost-recovery model at the university level usingContinue reading “Higher education”
Education, economics and public policy 