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This first World Bank Knowledge Report launches what is intended as a series of World Bank Knowledge Reports. Although knowledge is a fundamental to the Bank s overall mission, and informs all of the Bank s development activities, it has not received the same degree of attention from management...
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depend on the information needs of policy makers and education managers. In most national assessments, these relate to the …
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Education is improving in Brazil. The average years of education has almost doubled over the last 20 years, as has the … language performance over the last decade. These gains stem from the federal government's priority attention to education … quality gap to a first-rate education for its children. It provides detailed recommendations for strengthening the performance …
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. The evolving nature of its education system and the increasingly complex challenges facing individual teachers and the … through improving the nature of recruitment into the profession; pre-service education; induction, mentoring, and probation … should therefore be of particular interest to Ministries of Education and development agencies contemplating similar …
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The technology and innovation landscape has changed considerably since 2006 when Finland as a Knowledge Economy …
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, quality, and relevance of Yunnan's education and training system and how effective it is in supplying the skills in demand. An … overview of Yunnan's formal and non-formal education and training system is presented in chapter three. Chapter four focuses on … the formal Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) system, examining its governance, industry participation …
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The paper highlights that the education of children, and youth merits the highest priority in a world afflicted by HIV …/AIDS, specifically because a good basic education ranks among the most effective - and cost-effective - means of HIV prevention. It also … merits priority because the very education system that supplies a nation's future, is being greatly threatened by the …
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The higher education and research sector in the French-speaking countries of Africa has, for more than a decade, been … quality education and the available resources. The goal of this article is to: i) highlight the factors which have lead to the … the higher education and research systems and allow them to be more financially sustainable; and iii) identify ways of …
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This study emphasizes that in response to demands for wider access and better quality of education, and to achieve … economies of scale and leverage limited resources, China needs to develop a more integrated system of education and training … placed on the education and training system and the services that various education providers can supply, highlighting …
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This report compiles a rich set of previously unavailable data to define where the education sector in Albania has … broad tasks must be tackled to improve education. The country must: 1) increase enrollment rates with the goal of achieving … truly universal education in primary and lower secondary schools, and reversing the actual trend of decreasing secondary …
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