World Bank Publications
EDUCATION AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT 2011
Highlights MAKING SCHOOLS WORK
New Evidence on Accountability Reforms Barbara Bruns, Deon Filmer & Harry Anthony Patrinos
NO SMALL MATTER
The Impact of Poverty, Shocks, and Human Capital Investments in Early Childhood Development
This book is about the threats to education quality in the developing world that cannot be explained by lack of resources. It reviews the observed phenomenon of service delivery failures in public education: cases where programs and policies increase the inputs to education but do not produce effective services where it counts – in schools and classrooms. It documents what we know about the extent and costs of such failures across low and middle-income countries. This book examines how three key strategies to strengthen accountability relationships in developing country school systems have affected school enrolment, completion and student learning.
Edited by Harold H. Alderman
Mar 2011 272 pages | 978-0-8213-8679-8 | Paperback $35.00
Mar 2011 208 pages | 978-0-8213-8677-4 | Paperback $35.00
THE ROAD TO ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE
SKILLS, NOT JUST DIPLOMAS
Edited by Philip G. Altbach & Jamil Salmi
Lars Sondergaard & Mamta Murthi
Education is often seen as a fundamental means to improve economic prospects for individuals from low income settings. However, even with increased emphasis on basic education for all, many individuals fail to achieve basic skills to succeed in life. The book presents evidence that one core reason is that by the time a child is old enough to attend school, there is already a wide disparity in cognitive skills and in emotional and behavioural development among children from households of different socioeconomic backgrounds.
The Making of World-Class Research Universities
Managing Education for Results in Eastern Europe and Central Asia
The positive contribution of tertiary education is increasingly recognized as not limited to middle-income and advanced countries, since it applies equally to low-income economies. This book examines the recent experience of 11 universities in nine countries that have grappled with the challenges of building successful research institutions in difficult circumstances and learning from the lessons of these experiences.
Education systems have a very important role to play in creating the right skills. But education systems in Eastern Europe and Central Asia fall short of the demands of their economies in two major ways. This book explains these ways and argues that generating more of the right skills requires a fundamental change of approach in the education systems in the region so that they aim for, and deliver, higher quality education for the vast majority of students.
Sep 2011 392 pages | 978-0-8213-8805-1 | Paperback $35.00
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Aug 2011 394 pages | 978-0-8213-8096-3 | Paperback $35.00
THE CHALLENGE OF ESTABLISHING WORLD-CLASS UNIVERSITIES
ASSESSING SECTOR PERFORMANCE AND INEQUALITY IN EDUCATION
Outlines possible strategies and pathways for establishing globally competitive universities and explores the challenges, costs, and risks involved.
Gathers in one volume all the information needed to use ADePT Edu, the software platform created by the World Bank for the reporting and analysis of education indicators and education inequality. It includes a primer on education data availability, an operating manual for the software, a technical explanation of all the education indicators generated, and an overview of global education inequality using ADePT Edu.
Jamil Salmi
2009 132 pages | 978-0-8213-7865-6 | Paperback $22.00
HOW UNIVERSITIES PROMOTE ECONOMIC GROWTH
Edited by Shahid Yusuf & Kaoru Nabeshima
Examines the wealth of international experience on efforts to multiply links between universities and businesses. 2006 312 pages | 978-0-8213-6751-3 Paperback $35.00
Streamlined Analysis with ADePT Software Emilio Porta et al
Jul 2011 180 pages | 978-0-8213-8458-9 | Paperback $29.95
IMPLEMENTING A NATIONAL ASSESSMENT OF EDUCATIONAL ACHIEVEMENT
Edited by Vincent Greaney & Thomas Kellaghan National Assessments of Educational Achievement, Vol. 3
Focuses on the practical tasks involved in running a largescale national assessment program. It also describes how to export and import data, that is, make data available in a format that is appropriate for users of statistical software such as Access, SPSS, WesVar, and Excel. Jan 2012 312 pages | 978-0-8213-8589-0 Paperback + CD-ROM $30.00
DEVELOPING POST-PRIMARY EDUCATION IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA Assessing the Financial Sustainability of Alternative Pathways
Alain Mingat, Blandine Ledoux & Ramahatra Rakotomalala
Given the diversity across African countries, Developing Post-Primary Education in Sub-Saharan Africa: Assessing the Financial Sustainability of Alternative Pathways offers no generic policy fix. Rather, it seeks to provide policy makers and their development partners with an analytical tool to inform discussion and debate about alternative options in light of country circumstances. Apr 2010 234 pages | 978-0-8213-8183-0 | Paperback $25.00
PUTTING HIGHER EDUCATION TO WORK
Skills and Research for Growth in East Asia Edited by Emanuela di Gropello
East Asian countries need to make the leap from middleincome to high-income countries, and higher education will be key. The report explores higher education in East Asia and the changes needed to make this happen. Its three main focuses are on how to make higher education more responsive to the needs of the labour market, contribute to improving the innovation agenda, and more inclusive. Dec 2011 352 pages | 978-0-8213-8490-9 | Paperback $39.95
RETHINKING SCHOOL HEALTH A Key Component of Education for All Edited by Donald Bundy
For the goals of Education for All (EFA) to be achieved, children must be healthy enough not only to attend school but also to learn while there. This book shows that there is now convincing evidence that ill health and hunger are important constraints on the education of children, and that school health and school feeding programs can help reverse these effects. Mar 2011 332 pages 978-0-8213-7907-3 | Paperback $25.00
ACHIEVING WORLD CLASS EDUCATION IN BRAZIL The Next Agenda
Barbara Bruns, David Evans & Javier Luque
Over the past 15 years, Brazil has introduced a consistent program of reforms of its education system, progressively aligning the educational attainment of its labour force with that of other middle income countries and introducing advanced student assessment and monitoring systems. Oct 2011 | 192 pages | 978-0-8213-8854-9 | Paperback $25.00
EDUCATION IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA Kirsten Majgaard & Alain Mingat
Takes stock of education in Sub-Saharan Africa by drawing on the collective knowledge gained through the preparation of Country Status Reports for more than 30 countries. The analysis is based on a cross-country dataset which combines both administrative and household survey data to describe aspects of enrolment and student flow, disparities, out-of-school children, finance, management, quality, social impact and the link between education systems and labour markets. Dec 2011 | 978-0-8213-8889-1 | Paperback $25.00
FINANCING HIGHER EDUCATION IN AFRICA Provides a comprehensive overview of higher education financing in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The book begins with an explanation of the fundamental problems faced by higher education institutions and students in SSA, namely the combined pressure of a rapid growth in demand and a growing scarcity of public resources, and it presents the dramatic consequences of these trends on quality.
THE STATUS OF THE EDUCATION SECTOR IN SUDAN
This report covers several aspects of the education sector in northern Sudan. It begins by setting the scene in terms of the historical and economic context and by providing an outline of the administrative set up, which is particularly important in northern Sudan’s decentralized education system. Dec 2011 | 978-0-8213-8857-0 | Paperback $25.00
ACCELERATING THE EDUCATION SECTOR RESPONSE TO HIV Five Years of Experience from Sub-Saharan Africa
Feb 2010 | 128 pages 978-0-8213-7932-5 | Paperback $15.00
THE EDUCATION SYSTEM IN SWAZILAND Training and Skills Development for Shared Growth and Competitiveness
Policy makers recognize that developing capacity for knowledge and technology driven growth is necessary for Swaziland to integrate into the global economy and to be competitive; in particular because Swaziland is not rich in exploitable natural resources. The Education Training and Skills Development Sector (ETSDS), the educational sector of Swaziland’s long-term development and reform program, covers all levels of education, from early childhood to postsecondary education. This paper evaluates the adequacy of the ETSDS in light of the enhanced educational goal for the country. May 2010 | 179 pages | 978-0-8213-8324-7 | Paperback $25.00
SUSTAINING EDUCATIONAL AND ECONOMIC MOMENTUM IN AFRICA
May 2010 192 pages | 978-0-8213-8334-6 | Paperback $25.00
Explores the experiences of the education sectors in 37 countries in Africa to respond to HIV/AIDS within the Accelerate Initiative. This book demonstrates that strong education sector leadership and full participation of stakeholders has improved the education sector responses across the region.
The Education System in Malawi, an Education Country Status Report (CSR), is a detailed analysis of the current status of the education sector in Malawi, the results of which have been validated by the government of Malawi. Its main purpose is to enable decision makers to orient national policy on the basis of a factual diagnosis of the overall education sector and to provide relevant analytical information for the dialogue between the government and development partners. May 2010 | 412 pages | 978-0-8213-8198-4 | Paperback $35.00
A Comparative Analysis
Donald Bundy et al
THE EDUCATION SYSTEM IN MALAWI
Forty-four African ministers of finance and of education from 28 countries met in Tunis at a July 2009 conference on “Sustaining the Education and Economic Momentum in Africa amidst the Current Global Financial Crisis.” The conference attendees discussed why and how they must exercise joint political leadership during the current global economic crisis to protect the educational development achieved during the past decade. Jun 2010 | 64 pages | 978-0-8213-8377-3 | Paperback $15.00
YOUTH EMPLOYMENT AND SKILLS DEVELOPMENT IN THE GAMBIA
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HIGHER EDUCATION IN LATIN AMERICA The International Dimension Edited by Hans de Wit et al
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Directions in Development
THE LINK BETWEEN HEALTH, SOCIAL ISSUES, AND SECONDARY EDUCATION Life Skills, Health, and Civic Education Robert Smith et al
2007 | 88 pages | 978-0-8213-7068-1 | Paperback $15.00
TEXTBOOKS AND SCHOOL LIBRARY PROVISION SECONDARY EDUCATION IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA 2008 | 142 pages | 978-0-8213-7344-6 | Paperback $15.00
Nathalie Lahire, Richard Johanson & Ryoko Tomita Wilcox
Aims to better understand youth employment outcomes in The Gambia in the hope of crafting more sound and responsive policies in this sector. The first part of this paper analyses how youth spend their time. The second part of the paper reviews and analyzes the technical and vocational education and training sector. Jul 2011 | 125 pages | 978-0-8213-8811-2 | Paperback $20.00
FAITH-BASED SCHOOLS IN LATIN AMERICA Case Studies on Fe Y Alegria
Edited by Juan Carlos Parra Osorio & Quentin Wodon
Many observers consider Fe y Alegría a successful organization, but very few rigorous evaluations have been conducted. This volume is devoted to an assessment of the performance and selected aspects of the management and pedagogical practices of Fe y Alegría, a federation of Jesuit schools serving approximately one million children in 20 countries, mostly in Latin America. Nov 2011 | 136 pages | 978-0-8213-8695-8 | Paperback $20.00
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