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    Battle for open: how openness won and why it doesn’t feel like victory

    2014
    With the success of open access publishing, Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and open education practices, the open approach to education has moved from the periphery to the mainstream. This marks a moment of victory for the open education movement, but at the same time the real battle for the direction of openness begins.
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    Primary Education Support Programme (PESP) in Tanzania case study report

    Health and Education Advice and Resource Team, 2014
    This the full case study report on the Primary Education Support Project (PESP) in Tanzania.  This was a two-year (2011/12-2013/14) project aiming to procure and distribute books and desks to all primary schools in Tanzania mainland. PESP aims at improving the quality of primary education by providing necessary inputs in schools.
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    Helpdesk Report: Delivery of education at scale to large refugee and conflict affected populations

    Health and Education Advice and Resource Team, 2014
    The existing evidence regarding how to deliver education at scale to large refugee and conflict affected populations is somewhat limited. Much of the literature appears to be in the form of best practice or policy advice, based on previous experience, rather than results based on monitoring and evaluation of interventions.
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    Malaria and primary education: a cross-country analysis on repetition and completion rates

    2009
    Malaria ranks among the foremost public health and development issues facing tropical countries. This paper explores the link between P. falciparum malaria - most malaria morbidity and mortality is due to the malignant Plasmodium falciparum - and primary education in terms of school performance on the macroeconomic level.
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    Helpdesk report: Education expenditure reviews

    Health and Education Advice and Resource Team, 2014
    Expenditure reviews appear to be useful for identifying the flow of public funds and their use. A key finding of most surveys is public resource leakage. They also highlight the problem of delays and bottlenecks, payroll ghosts, equity in resource allocation, information asymmetry and poor record keeping. Challenges highlighted in the literature include:
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    Pre-service-teacher-training-helpdesk-FINAL-for-web1.pdf

    Health and Education Advice and Resource Team, 2015
    This helpdesk report aims to synthesis relevant evidence that is focused on the circumstances under which pre-service teacher education can be deemed effective. The evidence included is primarily focused on Ghana and West Africa. Some of the evidence from further afield, which was deemed to be directly relevant, was also included.
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    Helpdesk report: education system in Lebanon

    Health and Education Advice and Resource Team, 2015
    This helpdesk report was asked to collate and synthesise the body of evidence from the last 5-10 years on Lebanon’s education sector, taking a education system wide approach while particularly, prioritising access, cost/ efficiency, quality and equity.
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    Basic education: improving quality and quantity

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2000
    Access to basic education has greatly broadened in the past two decades as enrolment growth in both the elementary and secondary school systems outpaced that of population. However, while access widened, the quality of basic education has deteriorated and continues to do so.
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    Gender differentiated benefit incidence of the Department of Education: basic education for all?

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2005
    Are there gender disparities and inequalities in basic education in the Philippines? To what extent do they exist? And what are the underlying reasons for the barriers faced in educational access not only in terms of gender but as a whole? These are some of the questions that the authors try to answer in these Notes.
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    Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program: why "deepening" matters in achieving its human capital objectives

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2013
    The Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino (4Ps) is by far the largest poverty reduction and social development program the Philippine government has ever conceived. It is also one of the most controversial because its budget is huge and it is mainly financed by loans.

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