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  • Shadow education in Myanmar: private supplementary tutoring and its policy implications

    The book,presents the first detailed empirical study in Myanmar of a phenomenon that is of increasing visibility and significance in high-, medium- and low-income countries across the world. Among the students sampled for this study, over 80% were...

    Bray, Mark, Kobakhidze, Magda Nutsa, Kwo, Ora

    Hong Kong, University of Hong Kong (China). Comparative Education Research Centre, CERC; UNESCO, 2020

  • Newspaper

    Replacement of absent teachers: the private sector is more efficient

    France

    Press

    Marie-Estelle Pech - Le Figaro

    With each teacher taking an average of 6.6 sick days per year, the non-replacement of absent teachers is a source of tension with parents. In the public sector, substitute teachers cover 97% of long-term absences at the secondary level. This rate falls to 38% for shorter absences. However, when it comes to replacing teachers, be it for longer or shorter periods, the private education system is more efficient than the public sector.

  • Newspaper

    Teaching kids young in fighting corruption

    Philippines

    Press

    - Bayanihan

    The Department of Education has organized a campaign to urged parents of public and private school students to join the government in its fight against corruption. The department has launched a new Graft and Corruption Prevention Education Teaching Exemplars (GCPETE) which will be used by public school teachers to integrate anti-graft and corruption lessons in values education for elementary and schools.

  • Teacher absence in India: a snapshot

    25% of teachers were absent from school, and only about half were teaching, during unannounced visits to a nationally representative sample of government primary schools in India. Absence rates varied from 15% in Maharashtra to 42% in Jharkhand, with...

    Chaudhury, Nazmul, Hammer, Jeffrey, Rogers, F. Halsey, Kremer, Michael, Mularidharan, Khartik

    2004

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