This study compares two tools used to observe and assess how teachers support student learning: the LEGO Foundation’s Engage tool, formerly PLAY, and the World Bank’s Teach Primary tool. The goal was to...
Early childhood is a crucial period for skills development and socio-emotional growth. Forcibly displaced children experience significant trauma, necessitating effective interventions. This paper examines...
Western Balkan countries are consistent participants in international learning assessments like the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) and Progress in International Reading Literacy (PIRLS)...
The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) is disrupting the landscape of higher education (HE), presenting both opportunities and challenges. This paper discusses the results of focus group...
Malgré les progrès réalisés dans l'élargissement de l'accès à l'enseignement primaire, en raison de la mise en oeuvre de la politique de gratuité de l'enseignement primaire et de l'enseignement secondaire...
Firms generally seek to acquire a competent and stable workforce, as well as to maintain and upgrade the aggregate knowledge and skills of their workers at the lowest possible cost. In doing so, they routinely...
The purpose of this paper is to examine the accountability agenda in the tertiary education. Author proposes three principles of good accountability. First, accountability should not focus on the way institutions...
The purpose of this paper is to examine one piece of the tertiary admission puzzle: undergraduate university admission policies and procedures worldwide. It sets forth a basic classification system for...
The objectives of this paper are to outline the directions for policy reform in tertiary education and research in the countries of the Balkans and to identify ways in which the World Bank can help these...
This discussion paper provides a brief overview of the regulation of the private education sector. It also identifies a number of potential regulatory barriers to growth and set out some suggested steps...
The objectives of this paper are to outline the directions for policy reform in tertiary education and research in the countries of the Balkans and to identify ways in which the World Bank can help these...
The objectives of this paper are to outline the directions for policy reform in tertiary education and research in the countries of the Balkans and to identify ways in which the World Bank can help these...
The objectives of this paper are to outline the directions for policy reform in tertiary education and research in the countries of the Balkans and to identify ways in which the World Bank can help these...
The purpose of this paper is to examine the relevant attributes and characteristics of the alterative sector of tertiary education (ASTE), develop a framework for comparative analysis of the sector, and...
The purpose of this paper is to examine the relevant attributes and characteristics of the alterative sector of tertiary education (ASTE), develop a framework for comparative analysis of the sector, and...
Policy interest in education is linked to its potential to raise earnings and reduce poverty. This paper investigates the education-earnings relationship in Pakistan, drawing on the Pakistan integrated...
In a wide-ranging paper on education, incomes, poverty, and inequality, teal (2001) estimates the returns to education in Ghana, using four waves of data from 1988 to 1999. Unlike much of the international...
The aim of this paper is to provide those concerned with higher education policy with a concise summary of current developments in the management of tertiary systems. While the paper seeks to provide evidence...
A major challenge faced by governments everywhere is the reform of finance of higher education (HE) in response to pressures of rising private demand for HE and heavily constrained public budgets. Recent...
International trade in higher education services has grown rapidly in recent years in a variety of forms. The most common form of this trade is the movement of students to study in foreign universities...