Documents et rapports
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Ljubljana, Slovenia - University - industry cooperation under constraints : experience of the International Center for Chemical Studies (anglais)
Most research institutes have been exposed to demands for cooperation with industry for the last two decades. Many universities, however, have realized the need to cooperate with industry only recently...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 11552 Date du document: 31 décembre 1992 Auteur: Kornhauser, Aleksandra,Population and Human Resources Department
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Lending for higher education : an analysis of World Bank investment 1963-1991 (anglais)
World Bank support for higher education grew from an average of 17% of lending for education between 1963 and 1970 to 37% of lending since 1986. Although higher education's share fell from 43% in the early...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 11399 Date du document: 31 octobre 1992 Auteur: Eisemon, Thomas Owen,Population and Human Resources Department
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A framework for costing tests in third world settings (anglais)
This paper outlines a framework for costing tests. The approach is to outline the processes and procedures involved constructing, administering, scoring and reporting high-quality tests. The framework...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 11400 Date du document: 31 octobre 1992 Auteur: Population and Human Resources Department,Ilon, Lynn
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Secondary education in developing countries : annotated bibliography (anglais)
This annotated bibliography features recent books, articles and unpublished papers that were consulted in connection with the preparation of a general background paper entitled "Secondary Education in...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 11312 Date du document: 30 septembre 1992 Auteur: Clarke,Prema,Forlemu, Brunhilda,Stansbery, Pablo,Population and Human Resources Department
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The academic credit system in higher education : effectiveness and relevance in developing countries (anglais)
The objective of this study is not to promote or criticize the use of the credit system, but rather to analyze its potential as an approach which developing countries could consider to improve the quality...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 10966 Date du document: 31 juillet 1992 Auteur: Regel,Omporn,Population and Human Resources Department
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Performance indicators for higher education : a critical review with policy recommendations (anglais)
This paper reviews the current use of performance indicators in higher education institutions in industrialized and developing countries, and examines the factors that influence the use of indicators...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 10815 Date du document: 30 juin 1992 Auteur: Kells, H. R.,Population and Human Resources Department
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Challenges to the planning of education (anglais)
Priorities for educational development have evolved markedly in recent years. The themes that currently dominate the agenda are: quality improvement; resource diversification; decentralization; decentralization...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 10994 Date du document: 30 juin 1992 Auteur: Verspoor,Adriaan M.,Population and Human Resources Department
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Human resource development and economic growth : Ghana in the next two decades (anglais)
Human resources are a country's wealth, and it is people that make economies grow. A longstanding commitment to education and health has been key to economic growth and development in countries worldwide...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 10993 Date du document: 30 juin 1992 Auteur: King,Elizabeth M.,Glewwe,Paul W.,Alberts,Wim H.,Population and Human Resources Department
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Scope for efficiency gains resulting from reduction in repetition and dropout : a simulation exercise (anglais)
This paper tries to shed light on the question: to what extent can the cost associated with investments in improvements in quality of learning outcomes be recuperated through efficiency gains derived from...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 10502 Date du document: 30 juin 1992 Auteur: Cuadra,Ernesto Pancracio,Fredriksen,Birger J.,Population and Human Resources Department
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World Bank support for capacity building : the challenge of educational assessment (anglais)
This paper examines the challenge of developing educational assessments. It defines and describes educational assessments and attempts to provide insight into building assessment and educational research...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 10771 Date du document: 31 mai 1992 Auteur: Lockheed,Marlaine E.,Population and Human Resources Department
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Language issues in scientific training and research in developing countries (anglais)
Language policies affecting scientific education and research have important implications for educational efficiency and effectiveness. An analysis of the role of European and other languages in science...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 10537 Date du document: 31 janvier 1992 Auteur: Eisemon, Thomas Owen,Population and Human Resources Department
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Private initiatives and traditions of state control in higher education in sub-Saharan Africa (anglais)
Development of private higher education in Africa has been constrained by poverty and by extrapolation of the colonial experience that private involvement exacerbates inequalities in educational provision...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 10534 Date du document: 31 janvier 1992 Auteur: Eisemon, Thomas Owen,Population and Human Resources Department
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Multi-dimensional evaluation : measures for both right and left sides of the equation (anglais)
Monitoring educational progress requires data on both student learning and determinants of achievement. It also requires measures of learning achievement that can provide information on trends over time...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 10598 Date du document: 31 décembre 1991 Auteur: Lockheed,Marlaine E.,Population and Human Resources Department
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Perspectives on the financing of higher education (anglais)
This paper looks at the challenge faced by higher education systems in developing countries in terms of their capacity to meet the economy's needs for scientific training and research. It explores various...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 10539 Date du document: 31 décembre 1991 Auteur: Salmi,Jamil,Population and Human Resources Department
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Annual operational review : fiscal 1991 education and training (anglais)
The World Bank is today the leading development agency in the education and training sector. It has tripled funding for the sector since the mid-eighties, serves as an important source of analytical and...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 10533 Date du document: 31 décembre 1991 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Population and Human Resources Department
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Adjustment lending and the education sector : the Bank's experience (anglais)
The Bank has managed economic restructuring programs since the early 1980s. These are designed to increase output, employment, and the standard of living by removing rigidities and improving the efficiency...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 10567 Date du document: 30 novembre 1991 Auteur: Stevenson, Gail,Population and Human Resources Department
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Data collection strategies and methods for monitoring student flows (anglais)
This paper examines five methods used to collect or estimate the information needed to monitor the flow of a cohort of students through a cycle of education. Two of these five methods -- the True Pupil...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 10566 Date du document: 30 novembre 1991 Auteur: Cuadra,Ernesto Pancracio,Population and Human Resources Department
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Women's education in developing countries : barriers, benefits and policy (anglais)
This collection of papers compiles more recent data on the status of women's education in the developing world, organized by region, and links this information to development indicators, including income...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 10565 Date du document: 30 septembre 1991 Auteur: King,Elizabeth M.,Hill, M. Anne [editors],Population and Human Resources Department
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An introduction to the analysis of student enrollment and flows statistics (anglais)
The main purpose of this paper is to review : a) definitions, interpretations, data needs, and pitfalls in using enrollment ratios and student flow rates (intake, promotion, repetition, dropout and graduation...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 10538 Date du document: 30 juin 1991 Auteur: Fredriksen,Birger J.,Population and Human Resources Department
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The higher education crisis in developing countries (anglais)
This paper looks at the current higher education crisis in developing countries and discusses how problems are analyzed and decisions made in the context of higher education reform. It focuses in particular...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 10601 Date du document: 31 mai 1991 Auteur: Salmi,Jamil,Population and Human Resources Department