23 April 2014
At a Young Lives conference last year, Karthik Muralidharan presented what is probably the first ever longitudinal study of learning outcomes in a developing country. By applying Item Response Theory to a learning assessments dataset from Andhra Pradesh, the research found that the primary curriculum only catered for the top 10%. Most students fell further [...]
Categories: Curriculum, Learning and Teaching, Education0 Comments
17 April 2014
At the turn of the millennium an estimated 115 million children of school age were not in school; the 2011 estimate is 57 million. What dispute can there be over the value of the consensus among donors and national governments that has brought this about? In the past two decades, the Education for All agenda [...]
Categories: Education0 Comments
17 April 2014
The Faculty of Education at the University of Cambridge is a leading international centre for educational research and teacher development in central Cambridge. Applications are invited for two post-doctoral fellowships, tenable full- or part-time (0.6 fte minimum), and available for up to 24 months starting as soon as possible. The Fellowships will be working with [...]
Categories: Education0 Comments
16 April 2014
A recent seminar, hosted by the King’s College London International Development Institute and the ORIE Consortium, explored the opportunities and challenges facing efforts to improve nutrition outcomes in Africa’s most populous country. Malnutrition remains a major health and development issue in Nigeria and contributes to as much as 50% of under-five mortality in the country. [...]
Categories: Nutrition0 Comments
10 April 2014
Would you like to help DFID rise to the challenge of reducing world poverty and do all that we can to achieve the Millennium Development Goals? To increase our capacity to provide international development advice around the developing world DFID wants to maintain a pool of professional advisers that we can call upon quickly as [...]
Categories: Education0 Comments
10 April 2014
This roundtable, held at Centre for Global Health Policy, University of Sussex, threw light on various dimensions of TB, including the global disease burden and the national situation in the UK, access to treatment, drug resistance, and recent efforts by pharmaceutical companies and global health initiatives to develop new therapies. A summary of the roundtable [...]
Categories: Communicable Diseases, Health0 Comments
08 April 2014
Blog by Chris Berry, Education Head of Profession at the UK Department for International Development (DFID). The 2013/4 Education for All Global Monitoring Report, launched in the United Kingdom yesterday on April 7, makes a crucial contribution to our understanding of global education progress. DFID and the UK government follow these reports closely. One of [...]
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07 April 2014
In a debate to mark his departure from the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) after ten years as Director, Lawrence Haddad called for the UK to show more leadership in driving the collective action required to solve the world’s most pressing problems including climate change and extreme poverty. Professor Haddad joined BOND Chief Executive Ben [...]
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31 March 2014
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. [...]
Categories: Adult, Higher and Vocational Education, Education0 Comments
24 March 2014
Last week I was lucky enough to attend a roundtable event titled ‘Tackling the Global Tuberculosis (TB) Threat: Can we learn from the HIV response?’ It was hosted by the Centre for Global Health Policy, University of Sussex. With World TB Day being marked on the 24 March, the event offered a timely reminder that [...]
Categories: Communicable Diseases, Health1 Comment
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