education quality that are grounded in research and the Colombian context. In 2006, Colombia participated for the first time in …The main objective of this report is to analyze student learning in Colombia in order to foster policies to improve … (OECD), which provides an important opportunity to benchmark the quality and equity of its education system globally and to …

Without rapid and substantial improvements in education access and quality, broader poverty reduction efforts in Sub … intractable problems of education in Sub-Saharan Africa is perhaps greater than at any time in the past two decades. Economic … growth has resumed in many countries; the political commitment to education development is strong; and new democracies have …

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 …

environment for the sector. Public spending for education, relative to the gross domestic product declined in the 90s, coinciding … late 90s, public spending on education began to recover, and can be expected to grow. A key challenge however, is to …. The report identifies challenges at all levels of formal education, where a medium term goal is to achieve universal …

School health and nutirion programs can contribue to achieving the goals of the Education for All initiative (EFA) by … helping children enroll on time, complete their education, and realize their cognitive potential. Achieving these goals …

realizing that vision. The report deals with all the main education sectors (i.e., primary, secondary, vocational/technical, and … higher education), but the focus is necessarily limited by the complexity of the subject. In particular, non-formal education … has been set aside. Similarly, neither early childhood nor curriculum development, teacher education, and pedagogical …