In 2014, UNICEF commissioned a review of language policy and education quality in the 21
countries of UNICEF's Eastern and Southern Africa Region. This paper examines findings …

The OECD has initiated PISA for Development (PISA-D) in response to the rising need of
developing countries to collect data about their education systems and the capacity of their …

Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) lies at the heart of global, regional and
national policy agendas, with the goal of achieving socially and environmentally just …

This paper investigates which micro factors among student, classroom, teacher, and school
characteristics explain inequalities in public-private school achievement at the end of …

We use the 2007 SACMEQ data to make traditional “upwardly biased” estimates of teacher
and classroom resource correlates of 6th grade student achievement in Swaziland, Kenya …

This chapter analyzes the economic returns to education investments from a health
perspective. It estimates the effects of education on under-five mortality, adult mortality, and …

This investigation of physics teacher education in Ethiopia reveals a significant gap between
the physics knowledge of pre-service teachers (PSTs) attained during training and that of the …

Social scientists have conceptualised poverty in multiple ways, with measurement
approaches that seek to identify absolute, relative, subjective, and multi-dimensional …

Reducing dropout rates is a major issue in Cambodia. This study examined the effects of
school-level and student-level factors on dropout in rural Cambodian primary schools. We …

The education system in South Africa is characterised by unequal education structures
between the affluent and non-affluent schools, poor academic performance by learners and …