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Healey, Nigel Martin – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2022
Establishing a national university has been widely viewed by smaller developing countries as a means of asserting sovereignty and driving the country's economic, social, and cultural development. This has been particularly true in the South Pacific, despite the existence of the regional University of the South Pacific. Building a national…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Colleges, Developing Nations, Universities
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Heleta, Savo; Bagus, Tohiera – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2021
This paper critically interrogates the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in relation to higher education in low-income countries. While the SDG Goal 4, Target 4.3, calls for ensuring 'equal access for all women and men to affordable and quality technical, vocational and tertiary education, including university' around the world by 2030, the…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Objectives, Higher Education, Universities
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Aung, Thu Ya; Straubhaar, Rolf – Current Issues in Comparative Education, 2021
Due to the historically outsized influence of the United Kingdom's development assistance office on international aid, a better understanding of the underlying ideologies and political priorities guiding this agency would help the larger aid community more clearly understand the power dynamics and structural context of the development industry.…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Political Influences, Power Structure, Educational Policy
Sweet, Richard – European Training Foundation, 2018
This handbook, first published in 2014, aims at helping policy makers and social partners understand some of the ways in which learning in the workplace can be encouraged and how its quality can be improved. It is also intended to help them understand some of the ways that such learning can be organised in a structured manner so that it benefits…
Descriptors: Work Experience Programs, Educational Policy, Workplace Learning, Educational Quality
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Khoja-Moolji, Shenila S. – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2017
Studies in education over the past decade highlight the hijacking of educational agendas by neoliberal rationalities and logics. I illustrate these processes in relation to transnational campaigns for girls' education, where the purpose of "education" is reduced to producing wage-based labor and an accumulation of skills that enhance…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Speeches, Interviews, Females
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Crossley, Michael; Sprague, Terra – Current Issues in Comparative Education, 2012
Drawing upon recent work for the Commonwealth Secretariat and our ongoing comparative research, this article focuses upon the nature, impact and implications of contemporary development challenges for education in small states. It is argued that the post-Jomtien era has been dominated by international goals and targets that have focussed…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Educational Finance, Educational Research, Access to Education
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Sengupta, Atanu; Pal, Naibedya Prasun – International Journal of Educational Development, 2012
Primary education is essential for the economic development in any country. Most studies give more emphasis to the final output (such as literacy, enrolment etc.) rather than the delivery of the entire primary education system. In this paper, we study the school level data from an Indian district, collected under the official DISE statistics. We…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Economic Development, Institutional Evaluation, Elementary Schools
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Bines, Hazel; Lei, Philippa – International Journal of Educational Development, 2011
Children with disabilities are one of the many groups of children still not enrolled in primary education in developing countries. However, their educational exclusion and right to education are now receiving more policy attention. This paper reviews some of the key issues and challenges in relation to disability, education and development:…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Educational Policy, Developing Nations, Inclusion
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Cassimon, Danny; Essers, Dennis; Renard, Robrecht – Comparative Education, 2011
A decade has passed since participants in the World Education Forum committed themselves to achieve, by 2015, the six Education for All (EFA) goals under the Dakar Framework for Action. Despite significant progress, some of the goals are likely to be missed by a large margin. Besides the absence of a well co-ordinated multi-donor approach in…
Descriptors: Educational Development, Donors, Debt (Financial), Foreign Countries
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Turrent, Victoria; Oketch, Moses – International Journal of Educational Development, 2009
At existing rates of progress, fragile states represent those countries most at-risk of failing to achieve universal primary education. It is estimated that around a third of the world's out of school children live in countries where the state faces severe development challenges instigated and perpetuated by weak institutional capacity, poor…
Descriptors: Primary Education, Educational Finance, Developing Nations, Conflict
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Chang, Gwang-Chol – Current Issues in Comparative Education, 2010
This paper summarizes the experience and findings from the monitoring work carried out by UNESCO throughout 2009 to examine and assess the possible effects of the global financial and economic crisis on education provision in its Member States. The findings showed that although it was too early to ascertain the full extent of the impact of the…
Descriptors: Educational Development, Educational Finance, Sustainable Development, Global Approach
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Arunatilake, Nisha; Jayawardena, Priyanka – International Journal of Educational Development, 2010
Using the experience of the Educational Quality Inputs (EQI) Scheme in Sri Lanka the paper examines the distributional aspects of formula-based funding and efficiency of decentralized management of education funds in a developing country setting. The study finds that the EQI fund distribution is largely pro-poor. However, results show that to…
Descriptors: Funding Formulas, Educational Quality, Foreign Countries, Resource Allocation
Brookings Institution, 2012
Education plays a significant role in development and the dividends that result from investments in education are immeasurable. Quality education generates greater economic growth, creates a lasting impact on public health, and leads to safer more stable societies. Over the past two decades, major progress has been made in providing education to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Economic Progress, Equal Education, Global Approach
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Collins, Laura – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2009
At the time of writing, it is not possible to measure progress accurately, or even assess the baseline status of aid effectiveness in the education sector. Twelve targets en route to the five objectives of the Paris Declaration were set and agreed by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD); they were to be measured…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Developing Nations, Educational Policy, Educational Development
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Novelli, Mario – International Journal of Educational Development, 2010
The paper explores shifts in the nature, volume, trajectory and content of aid to education in the wake of post-9/11 Western preoccupations with the rise of Islamic radicalism. The paper develops a framework for understanding the dynamics of how educational aid appears to be becoming increasingly politicized in strategic conflict and post-conflict…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Conflict, Islam, Foreign Policy
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