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  Quality education: the key role of teachers

  Education International, 2004

  This paper examines ways that quality education can be improved, by looking at the roles that teachers themselves can play, and the support that governments and education authorities, and teacher unions can give.The paper provides recommendations to teachers, governments and authorities, and teachers unions, including:Teachers:quality awareness and self-evaluation: teachers mu
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  Reshaping the future: education and post conflict reconstruction

  World Bank, 2005

  This study discusses the issues and challenges around education, poverty and conflict; and the impact of conflict on education. It presents the case that there are significant opportunities for education sector reform in post conflict reconstruction situations, and that education has a key role in both preventing conflict and rebuilding fractured post conflict societies.
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  Education For All Global Monitoring Report 2005: Education For All - the quality imperative

  Education for All, UNESCO, 2004

  This years EFA Global Monitoring Report focuses on the quality of education.
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  Why budgets matter: the new agenda of public expenditure management

  Overseas Development Institute, 2004

  This ODI briefing paper summarises the arguments for focusing on budgets and budget processes and highlights some of the main lessons from past CAPE (Centre for Aid and Public Expenditure) research. The shift from the "due process approaches" of conventional budgeting to wider public expenditure management incorporates a complex set of actors and institutions involved in the budget process.
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  The impact of education policy reforms on the school system: a field study of EGS and other primary schools in Madhya Pradesh

  Centre de Sciences Humaines, New Delhi, 2002

  This paper presents the results of fieldwork on rural primary schools of two districts of Madhya Pradesh, India. Since the mid-1990s, the government of this state has initiated reforms aiming to extend the public primary school sector, to decentralise its management, and to facilitate the development of the private sector.
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  The Bolivian education reform 1992-2002: case studies in large-scale education reform

  Education Section, Human Development Department, World Bank, 2003

  This case study synthesises the first decade of the of the Bolivian education reform's design and implementation process, from 1992 to 2002.It argues that prior to the reform, behaviourism dominated teaching, instruction was teacher-centred and based on rote learning, and the teaching culture was not open to experimentation and learning.
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  Better livelihoods through literacy or literacy through livelihoods skills?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Does literacy come first and development follow? How much literacy is needed as a pre- requisite to development? Can effective training in livelihood skills be added to large scale literacy programmes? Or is it more effective to add literacy education to programmes set up mainly to teach livelihood skills?

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