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Information and transparency: school report cards in sub-Saharan Africa

Jonathan Dupain, Lena Thuphuong Nguyen

2018 182p.
10 ways to promote transparency and accountability in education

News

29.01.2018 Open school data can foster accountability and combat corruption in education, but only when it is used effectively and any malpractice is addressed with clear consequence. Researchers and national policy-makers attending an International Policy Forum in Manila, organized by the UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP-UNESCO) and the Department of Education in the Philippines, underscored this as they discussed open data initiatives from around the world.
New IIEP publication explores using school report cards to improve transparency

News

15.11.2016 IIEP is pleased to announce its latest publication Promoting Transparency through Information: A Global Review of School Report Cards by Xuejiao Joy Cheng and Kurt Moses from FHI 360.
Promoting transparency through information: A global review of school report cards

In an era of growing public access to information, how can data be better used to encourage transparency and accountability in the education sector? This study looks at the case of school report cards (SRCs), examining various models and conditions...

Cheng, Xuejiao Joy, Moses, Kurt

Paris, UNESCO-IIEP, 2016
Promoting transparency through information: A global review of school report cards

Xuejiao Joy Cheng, Kurt Moses

2016 151p.
Ending corruption in education in Sierra Leone

25.06.2006 Sierra Leone

Press

Max Katta - CARL

Sierra Leonean civil society activists are working to improve accountability. The National Accountability Group (NAG) – the local chapter of Transparency International – used a Public Expenditure Tracking Survey (PETS) to find out what had happened to school fee subsidies and learning materials designated for a sample of 28 schools in a rural district. NAG's survey came after an earlier Ministry of Finance PETS revealed startling figures about education corruption. In 2002 researchers found that 45.1 percent of the funds for school fees subsidies were unaccounted for and that nearly 28 percent of teaching and learning materials had disappeared.