- I E Partners
- International Education Partners (I E Partners) provide consultancy on education matters to aid organisations and governments worldwide. Special fields are curriculum development, language policy, Information Communications Technology, libraries and all aspects of the provision of learning materials from advice on publishing, printing and distribution to financing systems and book procurement....
- Inter-relationships between class size, school size and learning
- A. Little / Consortium for Research on Educational Access, Transitions and Equity, 2008
- This monograph reviews literature on school and class size. It estimates the numbers of small schools and numbers of children learning in small schools worldwide, and concludes by looking at implications for on-going and future CREATE...
- Participation rates of Indian girls at school
- M. Bandyopadhyay; R. Subrahmanian / Consortium for Research on Educational Access, Transitions and Equity, 2008
- India accounts for 30 per cent of the world’s total illiterate population and around 70 per cent of these illiterates are women. This review paper draws on recent data to map the access and participation rates of girls relative ...
- What makes children drop out from school?
- F. Hunt / Consortium for Research on Educational Access, Transitions and Equity, 2008
- Reducing drop out is central to improving access to basic education. Most of those who do not attend school are children who have enrolled but who have crossed the threshold from regular attendance to regular absence. This paper provi...
- How to address school development issues through activities and training
- Educational Quality Improvement Program, USAID, 2008
- This toolkit outlines activities and training methods to address problems that affect school attendance and development in Cambodia. The toolkit is organised into a website developed to engage school committees to prioritize the probl...
- A suggested curriculum on population and development for schools in Australia
- K. Mannion,; J. Power,; R. Ingwersen, / Australian Reproductive Health Alliance, 2004
- This toolkit aims to provide ideas and resources for teachers and students to work on issues of population and development within the classroom. It outlines a suggested curriculum which includes an introductory session, and a selectio...
- Analysing the relationship and challenges between education, disability and poverty
- N. Singal / Research Consortium on Educational Outcomes and Poverty, 2007
- Focusing on a southern context, this paper aims to discuss some of the methodological challenges underpinning the “Disability, Education and Poverty Project” (DEPP). The DEPP aims to explore the role that education plays i...
- Relationships involving education and income forming a system
- J. Knight; L. Shi; D. Quheng / Research Consortium on Educational Outcomes and Poverty, 2008
- This paper uses data from rural China to examine the relationship between income (or other dimensions of poverty) and education. Looking at enrolment, the effects of education on poverty, and testing seventeen hypothetical relationshi...
- What are the prospects for disabled young people in India?
- Research Consortium on Educational Outcomes and Poverty, 2008
- While attention is being focused on young people’s potential for social transformation, some of them – such as those with disabilities – remain alienated from mainstream debates on development. Little is known ...
- Making schools a safer place to study
- A. Aurrecoechea; E. Baltas; D. Bellet / Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2004
- This report is the product of an ad hoc experts’ meeting held at the OECD in Paris from 9 to 11 February 2004 on earthquake safety in schools. The expert knowledge, opinions and experiences presented in this report provid...
- Traditional forms of collective action influence decentralisation reforms
- P. Arnaldo / Tampere University, 2007
- This study analyses the characteristics of community participation in Cambodian rural schools. It looks at the spaces for participation created by the decentralisation reforms that the Government of Cambodia has undertaken in the educ...
- In many countries resources for improving literacy are virtually non-existent
- C Medel-Añonuevo; D. M. Cheick / United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, 2007
- Illiterate women and men cannot access written information, meaning they remain unaware of many national and international issues affecting them that are increasingly being communicated through printed materials. This document from th...
- How educational quality impacts on growth
- E. A. Hanushek; L. Wößmann / World Bank Research, 2007
- Access to education is one of the highest priorities on the development agenda. High-profile international commitment to progress has helped galvanise policy-makers into action. This book aims to contribute to the World Bank&rsqu...
- Recommendations for the education for all fast track initiative
- Education for All Fast Track Initiative, World Bank, 2007
- On March 11, 2008, a working session group representing governments, donor agencies, multilateral organizations, and NGOs was hosted by the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington, DC to discuss a set of recommendations for develop...
- A new barometer for education in fragile states
- CfBT Education Trust, 2007
- Schools are often targeted in war and can sometimes also be contributors to conflict by aiding recruitment or acting as locations for ideological indoctrination. The 'Education that Protects' Project seeks to provide a mechanism to co...
- Piloting education models in Somaliland
- H. Smith / CfBT Education Trust, 2007
- The education system in Somaliland is in the process of being re-established and developed following the destruction of the civil war. Partly because of the nomadic lifestyle, enrolment rates are very low and with its current resource...
- Examining the economic cost of failing to educate girls
- Plan International, 2008
- Education is vital to the future prospects and development of children across the globe. Gaining a good education is at least as important for girls as it is for boys. This report presents a new analysis of the economic cost of failin...
- Universities in sub Saharan Africa need to formulate their responses to the HIV/AIDS epidemic
- Bertil Egero / African Higher Education Research Online, 2006
- Many sub Saharan African universities have been slow to respond to HIV/AIDS pandemic. This report from African Higher Education Research Online (AHERO) analyses why universities respond the way that they do and in particular focuses o...
- How can Cambodian students be protected from natural disasters?
- Asian Disaster Preparedness Center, 2008
- Natural disasters can cause terrible loss of life. However what is perhaps most disturbing are their impact on the most vulnerable, in institutions where safety should be paramount i.e. patients stranded in hospitals and children at t...
- Is the current aid structure meeting the health and education needs of developing countries?
- S. Bökkerink / Oxfam, 2008
- This paper evaluates the extent to which the current aid structure, particularly that of the European Community (EC), is meeting the health and education requirements of developing countries. It reviews the dynamic between the EC, Eur...
- Trans European Research and Education Networking Association (Terena)
- WWW site from the Terena
- Chronicle of Higher Education, USA
- USA weekly journal on higher education
- Overseas Educational Advisers' Professional Educators Group (OSEAS)
- Organisation advising non-USA students on study opportunities in the USA. OSEAS Database is part of NAFSA: the Association of International Educators' services to international education advisers and administrators outside the United States. Database aims at serving the information needs of educational-exchange professionals outside the U.S., and expanding NAFSA's base of 6500 universities and i...
- Department for Educational Studies and Consultancy, Nuffic (DESC)
- Encourages internationalisation of education and improvement of education in developing countries
- UNESCO Library
- A wide collection of educational and cultural information
- UNESCO Databases CDRom
- CDROM containing educational material
- Unesbib (UNESCO)
- Archive of UNESCO documents and literature
- Key Data on Education, UNESCO
- CDROM containing a range of directory, bibliographical and statistical education related data produced by UNESCO
- Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA)
- Develops partnerships between African Ministers of Education and funding agencies
- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
- Provides educational, scientific and educational material
