In middle-income and poor countries alike, educational opportunities elude many children, especially those from poor and disadvantaged families, in large part due to economic, social and institutional reasons. This paper reviews governance and institutional challenges facing educational systems in developing countries, to serve as a background for GDN’s Global Research Project on Governance and Public Service Delivery.
This paper motivates the discussion with a brief review of the development of educational systems and human capital-based research on the value of investing in education and offers a framework for analyzing public service delivery in the education sector. It also reviews the growing body of evidence from developing countries on what works and specific remaining institutional challenges facing governments: agency problems, coordination tensions, imperfect information, and incentives related to the twin challenges of educational access and quality. Substantial though uneven progress has been made in terms of improving access, at least to basic education, but improving the quality of education remains elusive, even where reforms have been tried. The authors highlight how one of the most difficult questions to study in the context of education is what happens in the classrooms, how children learn and how to control this through governance measures in the sector.
Finally, the paper concludes with key research issues for future research, many of which were picked up by the country case studies in the global project:
- To what extent do existing processes for teacher recruitment, training, compensation and oversight create incentives for teacher and teaching quality? How and why?
- To what extent are teachers accountable to school heads, parents and communities, line bureaucracies, unions, political parties?
- To what extent are school heads and teachers accountable to parents and communities, line bureaucracies, unions, political parties?
- To what extent do processes in place allocate financial and human resources to schools create incentives for school quality? How and why?
- To what extent do the processes in place measure student and teacher performances
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At any rate 40 structures - humble habitations, and shops where individuals carried out their specialties - have been moved to this 10 hectare (around 26 sections of land) site with an end goal to safeguard the unmistakable neighborhood history that enriched the gallery with its name.
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It uncovers reality in re-establishments and exhibitions that occur in noteworthy structures - some moved step by determined step from their unique area and affectionately reassembled on the historical center's far reaching outdoors condition.
Rupiah - The rupiah exchange rate against United States dollar (U.S.) this morning, Tuesday (8/10) re-opened weakened.
According to Bloomberg, the rupiah was down 0.09% or 13 points to a level of Usd 14.175 per U.S. dollar compared to the previous position at the level of Rp 14.162 per U.S. dollar.
The Japanese Yen recorded fell 0.04%, to Hk $ 0.01 percent, the Indian rupee of 0.19%, the Chinese yuan is 0.36%, the Malaysian ringgit is 0.02% and the Thai baht to 0.04%.
Although the majority of Asian currencies tumbled, some of the other currencies managed to strengthen, such as the Singapore dollar successfully added 0.02%, Taiwan dollar 0.22 percent, the South Korean won by 0.07% and Philippine peso 0.1 percent.
"This is following a report that mentioned that the Chinese government could potentially agree to some points of agreement with the U.S. government," said Josua to Katadata.co.id, Tuesday (8/10).
As is known, the talk of trade between the U.S. with China will be concluded on 10-11 October in Washington DC, USA.
