The purpose of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) for education - a reference handbook is to provide decision makers, planners, and practitioners with a summary of what is known about the...
The purpose of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) for education - a reference handbook is to provide decision makers, planners, and practitioners with a summary of what is known about the...
The purpose of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) for education - a reference handbook is to provide decision makers, planners, and practitioners with a summary of what is known about the...
This book examines how educational development happens. It analyzes the actions of policy makers and the decisions they make regarding educational change. Although the point of decision is an important...
Human development has been a fast-growing area in the Bank, with the typical pains of growth. It has also been facing new challenges -- an expanded and broadened role, integrated structure, and country...
Education has been recognized as critical to the success of economic policies, equitable income distribution and the reduction of poverty. However, just when more and better education is needed, much of...
A prominent concern of most governments today is how to provide quality education to increasing numbers of people, when financial resources are shrinking. In the Middle East, present educational needs...
The economic boom which has characterized the development of the oil-rich countries of the Middle East in the 1970s is stabilizing, if not tapering off in the 1980s. This development has potentially profound...
Diversification of secondary school education by 'vocationalizing' or 'practicalizing' the curriculum has been a major component for the World Bank's education lending program. This review of Bank experience...
This review covers all education sector reports, appraisal and completion reports issued in fiscal 1984-85. Among the important findings are the following. Sector work needs to be strengthened in education...
Although some assumptions concerning the contributing effect of the teacher variable on student achievement were challenged in the 1960s & 1970s in developed countries, recent empirical research revealed...
This paper updates the Bank's interpretation of educational development, and recommends a flexible lending policy, governed primarily by five broad principles: equity, efficiency, expansion of basic educational...