The aim of this volume is to draw international attention to the key role that education can play in both preventing … the devastating consequences of conflict on a country's education systems and outcomes, as well to emphasize the … importance of maximizing the opportunities to reform education systems presented by a reconstruction setting, adopting a long …

support achievement of the Millennium Development Goals for poverty reduction and Education for All. …

government or donor budgets, and they remain severely underfunded in comparison to primary education. Though dropout and course …

. The meeting aimed to harness good practices, and knowledge for furthering judicial education, based on the premise that … judicial excellence, judicial ethics, and the role of human rights, e-learning, and distance education, in-service training and … evaluation methodologies, attitudinal change in the courts, and the role of education and strategies to inspire future …

education quality. Student achievement information can be used to inform a wide variety of education policies, including the … do tend not to use the results to inform their education policies. Yet better education policies have the potential to … promote significant increases in cognitive skills. If developing countries are truly to achieve education for all, they will …

The book examines five ways through which public-private contracts can help countries meet education goals. First …, public-private partnerships can increase access to good quality education for all, especially for poor children who live in … education can be particularly helpful in post-conflict countries undergoing reconstruction. Third, lessons about what works in …

This report emphasizes that cross-border tertiary education refers to the movement of people, programs, providers …, curricula, projects, research and services in tertiary (or higher) education across national jurisdictional borders. Cross …-border education is a subset of educational internationalization and can be part of development cooperation projects, academic exchange …

Contents of the report are as follows: East Asia education study tour: an overview of key insights by Birger Fredriksen …, and Tan Jee Peng. Education in Africa: knowledge makes the difference by Mamadou Ndoye. Education in Singapore …: developments since 1965 by Goh Chor Boon, and S. Gopinathan. Education in Vietnam: development history, challenges, and solutions …

within African systems of tertiary education. In doing so, it also seeks to chart the patterns of articulation that have … universities, polytechnics, training colleges). The analysis of tertiary education differentiation and articulation is based on …-researched but strategically important technical aspect of African higher education at a time when it is becoming an important aspect …