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Turkey : Higher Education Policy Study, Volume 1. Strategic Directions for Higher Education in Turkey
World Bank - 2012
performance for many students in Turkey and participation in secondary education, as well as tertiary education, is low by …
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Romania - Functional Review : Higher Education Sector
World Bank - 2013
This review provides a discussion of challenges faced by Romania as a results of reforms, policy changes, growth in enrollment, among others, and provides policy options on how to tackle them. The review focuses on the higher education sector as a whole and how it is managed as a system by the...
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Uzbekistan : Modernizing Tertiary Education
World Bank - 2014
Uzbekistan is a lower middle-income country located in Central Asia with a population of 30 million people and an economy that has been growing by over 8 percent per annum since the mid-2000s. The composition of the workforce has also changed dramatically in recent years. The higher education...
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Tertiary Education in Colombia : Paving the Way for Reform
World Bank - 2013
of tertiary education must also shift. While tertiary education's traditional role has been to train students for … information about labor market perspectives; it must cater for students from all groups of the society by promoting greater equity …
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Tertiary education in Colombia : paving the way for reform
2003
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Inside Indonesia's Mathematics Classrooms : A TIMSS Video Study of Teaching Practices and Student Achievement
World Bank - 2012
The following report is the first of a two-stage video study to examine teaching practices and activities in Indonesian classrooms. The first stage is linked to results of the 2007 Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) where 100 of the 150 classes that participated in the...
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Chile's State-Guaranteed Student Loan Program : Analysis and Evaluation
World Bank - 2013
Chile's Programa de Credito con Aval del Estado (CAE in its Spanish acronym) is uniquely positioned to help hundreds of …,000 active borrowers or 23 percent of the 940,000 students in pre-grado. Even as the annual number of new beneficiaries levels …,000 active borrowers by 2016. This report is part of the 2010 Joint Studies Program between the Government of Chile and the World …
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Discrimination Against Sexual Minorities in Education and Housing : Evidence from Two Field Experiments in Serbia
World Bank (contributor) - World Bank - 2017
Discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) people is widespread and LGBTI exclusion from economic markets, vital services and political spaces is entrenched. This is not just a personal problem, it is a development challenge; not only because discrimination is...
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Different Paths to Student Learning : Good Practices and Student Performance - Identifying Success from Municipal School Systems in Brazil
World Bank - 2012
education policy literature. This study seeks to identify the good policies and practices that lead students in some municipal …
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Can Computers Help Students Learn?
World Bank - 2012
can play. Not only do they want to use technology to directly aid learning, but they also want to ensure that students in …. Researchers suggested this could be because teachers and students mainly used the computers to learn how to use computers, instead …
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