Impact Initiative - Children and Young People: Recent submissions
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Improving the Public Sector Schools in Pakistan: Strategies for Introducing Voice into the System
(Oxford University Press, 2015-06)The contributions in this book are research-based and strive at providing a deeper understanding of the various dimensions of the education crises as well as responses to them. Among the aims of this book are also to reach ... -
Teacher Politics: Meeting Educational Quality Challenges with Teachers. Report Prepared for the Education Commission
(The Education Commssion/The International Commission on Financing Global Education Opportunity, 2016)This report provides a snapshot view of the landscape of teacher reforms and their political presence in Bangladesh, India and Pakistan. This study has indicated that teachers are not only a critical input into a child’s ... -
Teachers – an Indispensable Asset: Examining Teacher Effectiveness in South Asia
(Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, 2015-07)Across the realms of educational research and policy-making, it is universally acknowledged that teacher effectiveness forms a fundamental determinant of children’s learning experiences. Low educational outcomes have dogged ... -
Schools and Learning in Rural India and Pakistan: Who Goes Where, and How Much are they Learning?
(Springer Netherlands, 2015-09)It is increasingly recognized that there is a global learning crisis. This article investigates this learning crisis through a comparative analysis of rural India and Pakistan. Using data from each country’s Annual Status ... -
Learning in India's Primary Schools: How do Disparities Widen Across the Grades?
(Elsevier Ltd., 2017)Using a large-scale household survey, we investigate how disparities in learning change over the primary school cycle. Even controlling for other factors, household wealth and parental schooling drive sizeable gaps in ... -
Reforms to Increase Teacher Effectiveness in Developing Countries: Systematic Review, September 2016
(EPPI-Centre, Social Science Research Unit, UCL Institute of Education, University College London, UK, 2016-09)Provides high-quality evidence on reforms/interventions in education systems aimed at improving teacher effectiveness, at scale. This executive summary provides an overview of that key evidence to answer three review ... -
Helpdesk Report: The Teacher Labour Market in Pakistan
(The Health & Education Advice & Resource Team (HEART), 2016-09-09)This report undertakes a rapid review of existing literature and summarises some key evidence on the teacher labour market in South Asia. It specifically focuses on salaries and conditions of teachers in the low-fee private ... -
Addressing educational access and retention of orphaned and vulnerable children in high HIV prevalence communities in rural Malawi : a flexible approach to learning
(University College London, 2014)In Malawi, where a policy of Free Primary Education has been in place for more than fifteen years, relatively few children have never attended school. However, despite high initial enrolments, primary education in Malawi ... -
Youth transport, mobility and security in sub-Saharan Africa : the gendered journey to school
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Experiences and lessons learned from influencing the social determinants to reduce child under-nutrition in Kenya
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New knowledge on children and young people: A Synthesis of Evidence from the ESRC-DFID Joint Fund for Poverty Alleviation Research
(Overseas Development Institute, 2015-04)In 2014 The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and The Department for International Development (DFID) set four groups of researchers a challenging task: to look across the more than 100 diverse projects funded ...