Education Overview: Development news, research, data | World Bank
2024年3月25日 · In Nigeria, the $75 million Edo Basic Education Sector and Skills Transformation (EdoBESST) project, running from 2020-2024, is focused on improving teaching and learning in basic education. Under the project, which covers 97 percent of schools in the state, there is a strong focus on incorporating digital technologies for teachers.
Improving Basic Education in Peru - World Bank Group
2019年5月13日 · Results. Over its five years of implementation from 2013to 2018, the Basic Education Project successfully achieved its objective of improving MINEDU’s capacity to evaluate the following elements of basic education: (i) student learning, (ii) instructional practice, and (iii) school leadership, as described below.
Fixing the Foundation: Teachers and Basic Education in East Asia …
This World Bank report about teachers and basic education in the East Asia and Pacific region addresses learning poverty and suggests policy actions to strengthen learning outcomes. More than half of 10-year-olds in most middle-income East Asia and Pacific countries are unable to read and understand an age-appropriate text. Weak foundations and skills will not power the productivity growth ...
Reexamining Sources of Growth: the Quality of Basic Education
The seventh issue of the “Cameroon Economic Update” underscores the need to improve the quality of basic education in Cameroon. Cameroon, a Central African country with its sights set on achieving emerging market status by 2035, allocates just 3.3 percent of its GDP to education, compared to an ...
Educating India’s Children - World Bank Group
2015年9月18日 · Almost two decades of basic education programs have expanded access to schools in India. Today, India’s Education for All program – Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) - caters to some 200 million children living in over a million habitations across the country, making it one of the largest elementary education programs in the world.
Foundational Learning - World Bank Group
2024年5月16日 · Foundational learning is basic literacy, numeracy, and transferable skills, that are the building blocks for a life of learning. Without foundational learning, students often fail to thrive later in school or when they join the workforce.
The Education Crisis: Being in School Is Not the Same as Learning
2019年1月22日 · Worldwide, hundreds of millions of children reach young adulthood without even the most basic skills like calculating the correct change from a transaction, reading a doctor’s instructions, or understanding a bus schedule—let alone building a fulfilling career or educating their children. Education is at the center of building human capital.
Education: Development news, research, data | World Bank
Education is a human right, a powerful driver of development, and one of the strongest instruments for reducing poverty and improving health, gender equality, peace, and stability. It delivers large, consistent returns in terms of income, and is the most important factor to ensure equity and inclusion.
Primary and Secondary Education - World Bank Group
Education is one of the most important drivers for ending poverty and boosting shared prosperity, as well as for improving health, gender equality, peace, and stability. Guaranteeing the human right to a basic education means little unless schooling leads to learning for all children and youth.
Lessons from Kenya’s Education Reforms - World Bank Group
These reforms have made Kenya a top education performer in Eastern and Southern Africa, according to the Kenya Economic Update, Edition 25: Aiming High, Securing Education to Sustain Recovery. The report outlines the key messages from the new World Bank Public Expenditure Review (PER) in basic education and highlights Kenya’s impressive ...