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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 … quality of student learning, factors related to learning, equity issues, and in some cases, change in educational outcomes …
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proportion of adults who have completed secondary school. Brazil's high school students have improved consistently in math and …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 …
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With close to three million teachers, Indonesia has one of the largest and most diverse cadres of teachers in the world …. The evolving nature of its education system and the increasingly complex challenges facing individual teachers and the … process. This book explores this uniquely comprehensive reform by focusing on the nature of Indonesia’s teaching profession …
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The technology and innovation landscape has changed considerably since 2006 when Finland as a Knowledge Economy: Elements of Success and Lessons Learned [see also report 39378] was first published by the World Bank Institute (WBI). Finland is known for its consistent progress in the economy and...
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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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: based on strategic planning in pursuit of educational goals, school-based prevention programs, and health education, focused …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 …
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deserving students; iii) limiting the duration of study at the higher education level in order to prevent the number of students …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 …
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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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