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Philippines: Check-My-School: Monitoring Made Easy with Dedicated Volunteers and ICT Tools
27 February 2013 | asia pacific, education, ict, monitoring, public serviceThe quality of education in the public sector often suffers due to poor services like lack of classrooms, textbooks and toilets. A project called Check My School uses mobile and Internet technology...
Armenia l Promoting Transparency and Participation in Extra-Budgetary Fund Collection in Schools in Armenia
14 December 2012 | case study, corruption, education, framework, good governanceArmenia’s secondary schools regularly collect extra-budgetary funds outside and in addition to the budget allocated by the government. Assessments of corruption vulnerabilities at this local level of...
Blogpost l Service delivery realities in Gulf Province, PNG
06 December 2012 | arab states, blogpost, education, gulf states, health system, service deliveryService delivery in Gulf Province, PNG, requires a ‘never say die’ attitude. This is the motto for government and church service providers according to the Provincial Administrator. The PEPE Gulf...
Launch l Sri Lanka Human Development Report 2012
07 November 2012 | asia pacific, education, employment, governance, health, nhdr, social indicators, sri lankaRecently the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) launched the Sri Lanka Human Development Report 2012 in the presence of Hon. Dr. Sarath Amunugama, Senior Minister for Monetary Co-operation...
Release: Education for All Global Monitoring Report
29 October 2012 | annual report, cross-country, education, mdgs, monitoring, release, unescoThis 10th edition of the EFA Global Monitoring Report could not be better timed. The third goal of Education for All is to ensure that all young people have the opportunity to acquire skills. The...
Serbia: More Than One Way To Fight Corruption in Education
24 October 2012 | corruption, education, serbiaEducation matters. Integrity in education matters too—corrupt schools and universities hinder prosperity, cause long-term damage to societies and raise the cost of education at the expense of...
Blogpost: Baking the Cake after 2015: Do the EFA Goals have the Right Ingredients?
19 October 2012 | education, indicators, mdg, post-2015The 12th September NORRAG workshop on education and skills post 2015 was a wide-ranging discussion on the objectives, actors and levers of the post-2015 agenda. Participants looked at issues...
Education spending rising but access to higher education remains unequal in most countries, says OECD
25 September 2012 | education, global index, launch, report11/09/2012 - Watch the webcast of the press conference live Governments should increase investment in early childhood programmes and maintain reasonable costs for higher education in order to reduce...
Blogpost: The role of data in keeping governments accountable
20 September 2012 | accountability, blogpost, children, commentary, education, mdgs, post-2015With the deadline for the Millennium Development Goals drawing nearer, there is much discussion around what needs to be done to achieve these goals, as well as what will happen post 2015. It...
Data Gaps Hampering Efforts to Empower Women | Audit Profession News & Events
20 July 2012 | data, education, employment, gender, health, world bankHow many women in African countries use fertilizer to help grow their vegetables? It’s an important question in agriculture-dominant Africa, where many women are farmers—and where the targeting of...