data collection, data cleaning, statistical analysis, report writing, and using results to improve educational quality … 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 …

quality gap to a first-rate education for its children. It provides detailed recommendations for strengthening the performance …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 …

. 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 …

, quality, and relevance of Yunnan's education and training system and how effective it is in supplying the skills in demand. An …, curriculum reforms, quality assurance, and finances. Analysis of the formal education and training system focuses mainly on … overview of Yunnan's formal and non-formal education and training system is presented in chapter three. Chapter four focuses on …

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 …

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 sector in the French-speaking countries of Africa has, for more than a decade, been … the higher education and research systems and allow them to be more financially sustainable; and iii) identify ways of …

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 …

enrollment; 2) improve the quality of education, which requires developing human resource policies--such as teacher development …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 …