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- This masters-level module covers the study and practice of educational leadership and management. The module is expected to take eight hours to complete and is provided by the UK Open University as part of its LearningSpace, a collection of over 800 free online courses (as at July 2016).
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- Open University
- http://www.open.edu/openlearn/education/professional-development-education/the-why-and-what-educational-leadership-and-management/content-section-0
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- This study assesses whether universal primary education can be achieved by 2015 by analyzing education policies and financing patterns in the largest low-income countries that are furthest from achieving universal primary education. It identifies a new policy and financing framework that could accelerate global progress in primary education. This study was published by WorldBank in 2003.
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- Barbara Bruns; Alain Mingat; Ramahatra Rakotomalala
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- The World Bank Group
- https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/15121
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- This document summarises a range of data on literacy including global literacy rates, global distribution of literacy and how rates of literacy have changed since 1990. This document was published in September 2013.
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- UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS)
- http://www.uis.unesco.org/Education/Documents/fs26-2013-literacy-en.pdf
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- This document presents statistics on literacy in relation to gender including adult literacy and gender and youth literacy and future trends.
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- UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS)
- http://www.uis.unesco.org/FactSheets/Documents/Fact_Sheet_2010_Lit_EN.pdf
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- This document summarises adult and youth literacy rates and estimates of illiteracy, presents trends in literacy rates since 1985 and prospects for 2015. This document was published in 2013.
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- UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS)
- http://www.uis.unesco.org/Education/Documents/literacy-statistics-trends-1985-2015.pdf
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- This paper aims to estimate the impact of school-based management on students' test scores in the Philippines. This paper was published by WorldBank in 2014.
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- Futoshi Yamauchi
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- The World Bank Group
- https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/16831
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- This report examines the use of medium-term expenditure frameworks (MTEFs) in the education sector as a way of aligning national educational policies with sound financial planning in the public sector. It defines MTEF, explains the reasons for introducing MTEFs, presents nine country experiences of introducing MTEF (including Cambodia, Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam), examines general issues with implementation and suggests some possible solutions for these issues. This report was published by UNESCO in 2010.
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- Grayson Clarke
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- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
- http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0019/001915/191500e.pdf
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- This report explores the option of decentralization as a method of providing and financing basic education within Asia. It defines decentralization, explores other options for education finance, examines country experiences of decentralization in Asia (including Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam) and anticipates the future of education decentralization in Asia. This report was published by UNESCO in 2013.
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- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
- http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0021/002163/216312E.pdf
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- This report examines the current systems of educational learning assessments across countries in the Asia-Pacific region as a method of improving the quality of education. It presents an overview of assessment practices in the region and examines national/sub-national assessments, public examinations, school-based assessment and international assessments with a summary of the major findings and implications for the future. This report was published by UNESCO in 2013.
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- Esther Sui-chu HO
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- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
- http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0021/002178/217816E.pdf
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- This report examines school-to-work (STW) information bases, a set of policies and practices for collecting information about the skills needed by employers and about the types of employment found by technical and vocational education and training (TVET) graduates. It studies the school-to-work transition process in nine countries, including Bangladesh, Cambodia, Lao PDR, India, Indonesia, the Philippines and Vietnam. This report was published by UNESCO in 2013.
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- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
- http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0021/002166/216661e.pdf
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- This report examines the importance of increasing access to technical and vocational education and training (TVET) as a method of addressing skills mismatches between school outcomes and the labour market across five countries (including China, Malaysia and Thailand). It examines the recent evolution of TVET in the region, challenges for the expansion of TVET, purposes and debates over suitability of vocationalisation as well as key issues of vocationalisation policy. This report was published by UNESCO in 2013.
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- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
- http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0022/002262/226220E.pdf
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- This report assesses the progress of countries in the Asia-Pacific region in achieving the first goal of the Education for All commitment, the goal of education and care in early childhood, and identifies the remaining challenges and priorities that need to be addressed for these countries to achieve this goal. This report was published in 2012.
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- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO); UNICEF
- http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0021/002171/217145e.pdf
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- This report assesses the progress of countries in the Asia-Pacific region in achieving the second goal of the Education for All commitment, the goal of all children to have access to and to complete free, compulsory, good quality primary education. It also identifies the remaining challenges and priorities that need to be addressed for these countries to achieve this goal. This report was published in 2013.
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- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO); UNICEF
- http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0022/002212/221200E.pdf
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- This report assesses the progress of countries in the Asia-Pacific region in achieving the third goal of the Education for All commitment, the goal of all young people and adults having the opportunity to gain the knowledge and develop the skills to develop their capacity to work, participate in society and continue learning. It identifies the remaining challenges and priorities that need to be addressed for these countries to achieve this goal. This report was published in 2013.
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- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO); UNICEF
- http://www.unescobkk.org/fileadmin/user_upload/efa/Publications/EDN_G3_Web_FINAL.pdf
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- This report assesses the progress of countries in the Asia-Pacific region in achieving the fourth goal of the Education for All commitment, the goal of achieving a 50 per cent improvement in levels of adult literacy and equitable access to basic and continuing education for all adults. It identifies the remaining challenges and priorities that need to be addressed for these countries to achieve this goal. This report was published in 2012.
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- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO); UNICEF
- http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0021/002184/218428E.pdf
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- This report assesses the progress of countries in the Asia-Pacific region in achieving the fifth goal of the Education for All commitment, the goal of eliminating gender disparities in primary and secondary education and achieving gender equality in education. It identifies the remaining challenges and priorities that need to be addressed for these countries to achieve this goal. This report was published in 2012.
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- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO); UNICEF
- http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0021/002191/219185E.pdf
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- This report assesses the progress of countries in the Asia-Pacific region in achieving the sixth goal of the Education for All commitment, the goal of improving the quality of education so that all achieve recognized and measurable learning outcomes. It identifies the remaining challenges and priorities that need to be addressed for these countries to achieve this goal. This report was published in 2012.
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- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO); UNICEF
- http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0021/002191/219186E.pdf
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- This report reviews the current features of examinations and the current practices in public examinations taking place in countries in the Asia-Pacific region with recommendations for future improvement. Its recommendations focus on assuring integrity of assessments, reducing examination pressures, catering for an expanding and more diverse student candidature, assessing a wider range of curricular objectives and assuring quality and gaining public confidence. This report was published by UNESCO in 2013.
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- Peter Hill
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- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
- http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0018/001878/187826E.pdf
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- This report examines measures that may contribute to increased access to secondary education in Asia and the Pacific, analysing the coverage of secondary education in Asia and the Pacific, reviewing major inequalities that exist in access and coverage and identifying factors that limit the access of primary school graduates to secondary education. This report was published by UNESCO in 2010.
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- Francoise Caillods
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- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
- http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0019/001900/190007e.pdf
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- This document describes the main features of national and international assessments used to determine the quality of education, including the purpose of these assessments; decisions in a national assessment; and issues in the design, implementation, analysis, reporting and use. Several country case studies are referred to including India and Vietnam. This document was published by WorldBank in 2008.
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- Vincent Greaney; Thomas Kellaghan
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- The World Bank Group
- https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/6904
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- This document defines sustainable development and education for sustainable development (ESD), assesses the current state of ESD in the Asia-Pacific region and outlines a set of exercises which can be used to coordinate discussion between key stakeholders to assess national ESD-related activities, identify gaps in implementation and formulate a plan to move ESD forward. This document was published by UNESCO in 2011.
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- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
- http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0019/001930/193013e.pdf
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- This report analyses data on returns to upper secondary schooling in Indonesia. It seeks to identify how life opportunities and future earning potential can be improved by attending upper secondary school education and what the reasons for this may be. It draws a number of conclusions about how successful Indonesia secondary schools are at improving these opportunities. This report was published by the World Bank in 2011.
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- Pedro Carneiro; Michael Lokshin; Cristobal Ridao-Cano; Nithin Umapathi
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- The World Bank Group
- https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/3646
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- This paper introduces the concept of school based management (SBM), using empirical data from the Philippines as part of a benchmarking analysis. It defines what school based management is and how this kind of reform can be implemented in order to improve school performance. This paper was published by the World Bank in 2014.
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- Suhas D. Parandekar
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- The World Bank Group
- https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/18823
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- This document presents a selection of case studies on a teacher-education course in information and communications technology (ICT) for pre-service teachers as well as retraining teachers. The countries studied include China, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.
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- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
- http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0022/002235/223520E.pdf
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- This report reviews existing early child development (ECD) policies and institutions in Yunnan, the financing of preschool education, a household survey of a sample of 3-6 year olds in rural Yunnan, a survey of preschool quality in Kunming using a recognised rating scale and a study of preschool teachers including qualifications, career development, salaries and supply and demand. This report was published by WorldBank in 2013.
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- The World Bank Group
- https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/17004