05 Aug 2013

Much Ado about Low-Fee Private Schools

By Modupe Adefeso-Olateju, Education Partnership Center, Nigeria.    I recently visited an educational establishment in Lagos to conduct some research.  For ease of comprehension, I shall refer to this establishment as a school. I wanted to understand why parents were choosing to send their children to private schools of questionable quality when tuition-free public schools...
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23 Jul 2013

More Effective Education Aid: The Challenge of Achieving More Evidence-based Aid Allocation

By Birger Fredriksen, Results for Development. From efficient to effective aid allocation The post-Dakar Education for All (EFA) decade saw much focus on enhancing aid recipient countries’ ability to develop more evidence-based education policies. Commendable progress has been made, more so than during the post-Jomtien decade. However, less attention has been paid to enhancing the...
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15 Jul 2013

The Red Threads of China’s Education and Training Cooperation with Africa

By Kenneth King, University of Edinburgh and NORRAG.   China has an increasing role as an education collaborator with Africa, and this may be significant both economically and politically.   First some questions:   ·         Why does China run one of the world’s largest short-term training programmes, with plans to bring 30,000 Africans to China...
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24 Jun 2013

What's Wrong With Low-Cost Private Schools for the Poor?

By Steven Klees, University of Maryland. Right now, there is considerable attention being focused on a growing phenomenon in a number of developing countries — private primary schools that charge relatively low fees.  They are described in miraculous terms, as private schools, once the bastion of the well-to-do, are now reaching disadvantaged families and thus...
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19 Jun 2013

Educating the Poor: Social Entrepreneur Style

By Karina Veal, Asian Development Bank.   In common with the best international schools, Year 10 students at the school established in Burriam, Thailand by former Senator Mechai Viravaidya, spend a year away from home (in this case, to the Thai beach resort area of Pattaya).  There they experience a different culture, gain independence, and...
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