Adult, Higher and Vocational Education
Adult, Higher and Vocational Education
In 2000, at the World Education Forum in Dakar, Senegal, 164 governments agreed on the Dakar Framework for Action, Education for All: Meeting our Collective Commitments, launching an ambitious agenda to reach six wide-ranging education goals by 2015. This report provides a complete assessment of progress towards the Framework’s goals. Looking forward, the report also… Read more
This report focuses on skills and education. It examines how skills development programmes can be improved to boost young people’s opportunities for decent jobs and better lives. Many young people leave the education system without the necessary skills to find work and contribute to society. These education failures impact on economic growth and social cohesion…. Read more
This helpdesk provides an overview of the literature that focuses on professional development and capacity building. It specifically seeks to explore the evidence on how best to deliver effective professional development and training for technical experts, and how the impact of conferences, seminars, short courses and e-learning can be maximized. There is a range of… Read more
Background The economic burden of uncorrected refractive error (URE) is thought to be high in Mozambique, largely as a consequence of the lack of resources and systems to tackle this largely avoidable problem. The Mozambique Eyecare Project (MEP) has established the first optometry training and human resource deployment initiative to address the burden of URE… Read more
The UK Department for International Development (DFID) has commissioned a series of rigorous literature reviews focused on different aspects of education. The reviews identify critical evidence gaps to guide future research programmes and present existing evidence for the development of effective interventions. A team from the Institute of Education, University of London authored the review… Read more
This publication is a guide to the type of technology modes, education models, and instructional methods used for teacher pre-service and in-service distance learning across the globe. The information here is based on three primary sources. The first is Education Development Center (EDC)’s long history in the area of distance-based education internationally—particularly in the area… Read more
The returns to tertiary education (TE) have been underestimated. TE appears to contribute substantially to both human and economic development in LLMICs. This evidence brief summarises the findings from a rigorous review conducted by Oketch, McCowan and Schendel (2013), entitled “The impact of tertiary education on development”. The review was produced by the Institute of… Read more
After a long period in which the international development community has placed emphasis on primary education, there is now renewed interest in tertiary education (TE). However, the extent and nature of the impact of TE on development remains unclear. This rigorous review seeks to address this question in the context of low and lower middle… Read more
International leaders and experts have just gathered at the Global Education and Skills Forum to try to defuse the ‘ticking time-bomb’ of 57 million children not in primary school. But is this focus on the education crisis at primary level too narrow? Amir Jones reflects on new DLP research into education and developmental leadership in Ghana…. Read more
For each of the seven countries in this report there is a profile outlining how higher education is organised and drawing together the key points on reform. This is followed by an annotated bibliography of resources on higher education reform for each country case.
Yangon University is typical of Myanmar’s universities: a shadow of its former self at the time of independence in 1948. Then Myanmar’s literacy levels were among the highest in Asia, and the country was the region’s rice bowl. Now years of political repression and economic neglect have left Myanmar’s universities as ghostly places. Universities were… Read more