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    Helpdesk Report: Girls education in Islamic countries

    Department for International Development, UK, 2011
    This report provides information on which methods have worked well to improve access to education for girls in Islamic countries.  The report covers the following areas:
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    Helpdesk Report: Higher education links

    Department for International Development, UK, 2011
    This report outlines projects and programmes identified to give an idea of the higher education links landscape. Programmes are listed in sections starting with British Council programmes, UK links, European links, and programmes in North America. Some evaluation of projects is noted within these sections.
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    Helpdesk Report: Comparing the performance of private versus public secondary education

    Department for International Development, UK, 2011
    What evidence is there, for India and the region in particular, comparing the learning achievements and relative cost of private versus public secondary education, as indicators of their relative performance?
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    Helpdesk Report: Language of instruction

    Department for International Development, UK, 2011
    This report gives an overview of the best evidence available on whether mother tongue is the most effective language of instruction for children.  It provides evidence of the impact of language of instruction on learning outcomes, international assessments of learning and provides data on the cost effectiveness of mother tongue instruction.  It also reports a lack of longitudinal eval
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    Helpdesk Report: Health and education

    Department for International Development, UK, 2011
    There is little literature that specifically compares the two sectors – Health and Education – to draw out the commonalities and differences between them. The only paper that searches bring up is a conceptual discussion which is reviewed in section 2.
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    Helpdesk Report: Operationalising Ghana complementary basic education policy

    Department for International Development, UK, 2011
    As with many enquiries exploring alternative or different providers of education and types of initiatives that can emerge to plug gaps in access to education, it is common to find a lot of focus in available literature on defining the terminology.
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    Shaping our collective futures: the Africa we want

    2013
    In 50 years, what kind of Africa can we envision, and then proceed to achieve? What are the non-negotiables? What agenda will see a true transformation of the world in which we live? What factors will enable us to not simply survive, but to thrive?
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    Helpdesk report: Education interventions and their impact on nutrition

    Department for International Development, UK, 2012
    This helpdesk query produces a report focused on nutrition interventions and their impact on school age children. In addition, it also considered a focus on any nutrition impacts on children of under two years of age (possibly indirect i.e. through intergenerational channels).
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    Helpdesk Report: Evidence base for local block grants in Education

    Health and Education Advice and Resource Team, 2013
    This Helpdesk query was asked to provide a literature / evidence review of the effectiveness – or otherwise – of sub-national flexible block grants in education in delivering enrolment, attendance and quality objectives.
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    Helpdesk Report: Barriers to learning

    Health and Education Advice and Resource Team, 2013
    Despite increasing numbers of children being enrolled in school, their learning outcomes are often of poor quality. This report looks at the issues and research on poor quality student learning outcomes and what inputs can create the enabling learning environment needed to address this. The report begins with a brief section on the context of the education system in Bangladesh.

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