We discuss the importance of a sustainable education policy for the prosperity and stability of society. Early childhood education, schools and vocational training must all be seen as a lifelong learning project in order to promote equal opportunities. Despite the expansion of day care centres...

Fachkräftemangel, Demokratiegefährdung, alternde Bevölkerung, digitale Transformation, Migration - die Gesellschaft verändert sich rasant, die politischen Rahmenbedingungen für gute Bildung aber bisweilen nur langsam. In dieser dynamischen Umgebung wird Lernen zum lebenslangen Thema, was...

Germany faces challenges of demographics, decarbonisation, digitisation and deglobalisation. Innovative strength and securing skilled labour are crucial, but Germany is losing strength in research and patents. Demographic problems and declining STEM skills are exacerbating the situation....

Die Bildungsleistungen deutscher Schüler*innen sinken, die Bildungsungleichheit ist hoch. Dabei sind Bildungsleistungen ein entscheidender Faktor für wirtschaftlichen Wohlstand. Reformvorschläge für ein höheres Leistungsniveau bestehen darin, einen klaren Fokus auf die Vermittlung von...

The education system is crucial for individual and social development and a country's competitiveness. Current studies show a decline in the quality of education and growing inequality. Challenges such as a shortages of skilled labour and high workloads for teachers, combined with inadequate...

Aus dem einleitenden Teil: "Rund 1,7 Millionen Menschen in Österreich im erwerbsfähigen Alter verfügen über nur geringe Lesekompetenzen und sind dadurch mit möglichen Benachteiligungen in Beruf und Alltag konfrontiert. Innerhalb von elf Jahren seit der PIAAC-Erhebung 2011/2012 stieg der...

Public service reforms often provoke political backlash. Can they also yield political benefits for the politicians who champion them? We study a Wisconsin law that weakened teachers' unions and liberalized pay, prompting mass protests. Exploiting its staggered implementation across school...

The World Bank has been working closely with the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development (MHRSD) in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) to develop a system-level skills strategy. The MHRSD first started by establishing a Skills and Training Deputyship andallocated resources to start...

The report is organized into six main sections. The first section provides an overview of the context in Edo. Section two summarized the central interventions part of EdoBESST and how they are based on the available evidence. Section three assesses the impact of interventions in terms of outputs...

People with disabilities represent a significant portion of the global population, and their exclusion from employment and education perpetuates cycles of poverty and inequality, undermining economic development efforts. The analytical report on disability inclusive employment and education in...

The onset of COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 highlighted the importance of digital technologies for remote learning and building better education technology (Edtech) ecosystem in the country. The 5-Year Education Sector Plan (ESP 2022-2026) developed in post pandemic period sets out ICT education...

Human capital is now widely acknowledged as one of the key determinants of economic growth. Research on how human skills accumulate and evolve through time has grown rapidly in recent years. This paper surveys it with a specific focus on Europe in the period 1830s–1930s. Our contribution is...

Public service reforms often provoke political backlash. Can they also yield political benefits for the politicians who champion them? We study a Wisconsin law that weakened teachers' unions and liberalized pay, prompting mass protests. Exploiting its staggered implementation across school...

Curricula impart knowledge, instill values, and shape collective memory. Despite growing public funding for religious schools through U.S. school choice programs, little is known about what they teach. We examine textbooks from public schools, religious private schools, and home schools,...

The report assesses two Department of Education's (DepEd) student financial assistance schemes under the Government Assistance to Students and Teachers in Private Education (GASTPE) program. Those schemes are the Educational Service Contracting (ESC) and the Senior High School Voucher (SHSV)...

Aus dem einleitenden Teil: "Rund 1,7 Millionen Menschen in Österreich im erwerbsfähigen Alter verfügen über nur geringe Lesekompetenzen und sind dadurch mit möglichen Benachteiligungen in Beruf und Alltag konfrontiert. Innerhalb von elf Jahren seit der PIAAC-Erhebung 2011/2012 stieg der...

The World Bank commits to removing barriers to inclusive education so that the right to education may be upheld for all children and youth, including learners from poorer households and/or rural and remote communities, persons with disabilities, ethnic- and linguistic minorities, Indigenous...

The guide is structured into three main sections: guidance notes. This section acts as a primer, offering clear, concise, and practical information on policy and process issues related to refugee inclusion. It discusses the why of inclusion, highlighting the benefits for both refugees and host...

This paper examines the impact of a reform aimed at expediting graduation times in Italian universities by reducing the number of exams students must pass to obtain the fixed number of credits required to graduate. Using event-study estimates that leverage the reform's staggered implementation,...

The Digital Education Accelerator supported 21 digital education solutions over three years, providing structured guidance, expert mentorship, testing, showcasing, and validation opportunities. As part of the European Digital Education Hub, the programme aimed to foster innovation by helping...

The Digital Education Accelerator supported 21 digital education solutions over three years, providing structured guidance, expert mentorship, testing, showcasing, and validation opportunities. As part of the European Digital Education Hub, the programme aimed to foster innovation by helping...

The dismantling of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has created an unprecedented crisis in global education and skills development, with far-reaching consequences for access, equity, and the quality of learning worldwide. This report, commissioned by the European...

The Technical Support Instrument (TSI) provides technical support to Member States to design and implement reforms that help Member States to achieve the objectives set at the EU level, for example in the Digital Education Action Plan 2021-2027 and/or to address Country Specific Recommendations...

We estimate the causal impacts of universal preschool by leveraging a quasi-experimental design based on Israel's implementation of free public preschool for children ages 3 and 4 beginning in September 1999. We focus on the Arab population, who were the main beneficiaries of the first phase of...

One of the key elements in the learning process is the instruction time available to students. In fact, not only the quality of instruction but also the time spent for learning can have a positive effect on students' learning process. This report analyses the recommended minimum instruction time...

One of the key elements in the learning process is the instruction time available to students. In fact, not only the quality of instruction but also the time spent for learning can have a positive effect on students' learning process. This report analyses the recommended minimum instruction time...

In this active learning exercise, students collaborated in groups to develop a retention plan for a local business in Huntsville, TX. This semester long activity was scaffolded into three interdependent deliverables carefully overviewing the job design, recruitment strategies, and other human...

This qualitative study explores parental attitudes towards bilingual education in Mozambique. To improve foundational learning, several countries in sub-Saharan Africa have re-evaluated their language-ofeducation policies and experimented with bilingual education. Community buy-in is essential...

This study examines how financial aid shapes post-secondary enrollment and persistence among senior high school graduates, challenging assumptions in traditional human capital theory. While the theory posits that reducing financial barriers increases participation, findings suggest a more...

The upcoming Spending Review will involve some very difficult decisions on public service spending, with virtually no headroom against the government's fiscal rules. The government has set out plans for overall departmental spending to grow by about 1.2% per year in real terms between 2025-26...

This paper highlights the role of teacher training in improving educational outcomes in Madagascar. With a low and stagnating Human Capital Index of 0.39 and high learning poverty rates, economic growth is hindered by an inadequately skilled workforce. This paper finds that doubling the share of...

This study provides a detailed analysis of the education and skills systems in Serbia in the context of the green transition and gives some recommendations for their future development. The document comprises five chapters, starting with the introduction into the effects of climate change on...

Since 2007, the Ecuadorian government has required teacher candidates to pass cognitive and knowledge tests before they are allowed to participate in merit-based competitions for tenured positions. We evaluate this policy by linking administrative teacher information to data from an experimental...

Sarah Gust führte diese Studie während ihrer Tätigkeit am ifo Institut durch. Die Studie wurde im September 2024 abgeschlossen und als Dissertation an der Volkswirtschaftlichen Fakultät der LMU München angenommen. Sie besteht aus drei eigenständigen empirischen Essays, die...

Grandparents are an integral part of family support systems, serving as both providers and consumers of instrumental, financial, and emotional care. They also play a central role in transmitting cultural and financial capital to their grandchildren. Grandparenting, which refers to the care,...

In this article, we present the impact evaluation of Irûmi, an educational robot-based intervention aimed at developing second-grade students' computational thinking (CT) skills in Paraguay. Our results indicate that the program had an effect of 0.09 standard deviations on the students' CT...

The Localization Law (RA 8190) aims to improve educational equity by emphasizing the recruitment of teachers from local communities, promoting cultural congruence, and reducing relocation expenses. Although RA 8190 has been in effect since 1996, challenges on filling up teacher vacancies are...

Fachkräftemangel, Demokratiegefährdung, alternde Bevölkerung, digitale Transformation, Migration - die Gesellschaft verändert sich rasant, die politischen Rahmenbedingungen für gute Bildung aber bisweilen nur langsam. In dieser dynamischen Umgebung wird Lernen zum lebenslangen Thema, was...

We discuss the importance of a sustainable education policy for the prosperity and stability of society. Early childhood education, schools and vocational training must all be seen as a lifelong learning project in order to promote equal opportunities. Despite the expansion of day care centres...

The education system is crucial for individual and social development and a country's competitiveness. Current studies show a decline in the quality of education and growing inequality. Challenges such as a shortages of skilled labour and high workloads for teachers, combined with inadequate...