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What Can Be Learnt from China’s Recent Experiences with Covid-19 and School Closures that Can Inform Other Countries’ Education Technology-Enabled Responses?
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July 17, 2020

China’s response to Covid-19 built on the distinctive foundations of its existing education political economy, in particular High levels of pupil performance with low achievement gaps (as measured by PISA); highly centralised school system decision-making, governance and development processes (although this may be gradually evolving); a political culture that is generally less encouraging of debate… Read more

COVID-19
Water and Sanitation
Sustainability Assessment of Rural Water Service Delivery Models: Findings of a Multi-Country Review
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September 18, 2017

With 2.1 billion people – mostly in rural areas – lacking safely managed drinking water and reported low rural water supply functionality rates, the Sustainable Development Goals pose a triple challenge: to reach unserved mostly rural population groups, to raise service levels, and to sustain existing and future services. This assessment uses a multi-country case… Read more

WASH, Water Policy, Water Resources
Health
Expecting the unexpected: applying the Develop-Distort Dilemma to maximize positive market impacts in health
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December 7, 2015

Although health interventions start with good intentions to develop services for disadvantaged populations, they often distort the health market, making the delivery or financing of services difficult once the intervention is over: a condition called the ‘Develop-Distort Dilemma’ (DDD). In this paper, the authors describe how to examine whether a proposed intervention may develop or… Read more

Bangladesh, China, health planning, Uganda
Education
China’s cooperation in education and training with Kenya: a comparative analysis
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November 3, 2015

This report focuses on research studying China’s re-emergence as a major player in human resource cooperation with Africa. China has been widely analysed, as an investor in the developing world, including very substantially in infrastructure and extractive industries in Africa. However, there has been little examination of China’s key role in education and training cooperation, or… Read more

Education, International cooperation, Training
Education
China’s Cooperation with Africa, and Especially South Africa, in Education and Training. A Special Relationship and a Different Approach to Aid?
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November 2, 2015

This paper studies the modalities which are used by China in its human resource cooperation with Africa in general, and where relevant with South Africa in particular. It covers the human resource dimensions of the Forum on China Africa Cooperation (FOCAC), pledges, paying particular attention to the latest round of commitments from the November 2009… Read more

International cooperation, skills transfer
Governance reforms in higher education: A study of institutional autonomy in Asian countries
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November 2, 2015

This study focuses on institutional autonomy and the role it plays in governance and management towards enhancing the overall effectiveness of higher education systems. It addresses in particular the effect of autonomy on academic programmes, staff appointments, student admissions, administration, and financing. The study is based on case studies taken from five countries in Asia:… Read more

Education financing, Education Governance, education reforms, Higher Education
Family background, financial constraints and higher education attendance in China
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November 2, 2015

Using data from the 2004 China College Student Survey, conducted by the author, this paper finds that long-term factors such as scholastic ability and parental education are significantly correlated with higher education attendance. By contrast, short-term financial constraints are also significantly associated with higher education access, but to a lesser degree. Furthermore, in recent years… Read more

Demand for schooling, Student financial aid
Globalization and Higher Education Reform in China
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November 2, 2015

This paper reviews the reforms in higher education in China in the context of globalization, pinpointing the conception changes, policy changes, governance changes and consequential changes in curriculum and methodology. What is presented here is grounded in documentation, and uses Northeast Normal University as a case study. The paper explores areas of change in education in… Read more

education policy, Globalisation, Higher Education
Linking higher education and economic development: implications for Africa from three successful systems
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October 28, 2015

This book is based on part of a larger study on Universities and Economic Development in Africa, undertaken by the Higher Education Research and Advocacy Network in Africa (HERANA), and  co-ordinated by the Centre for Higher Education Transformation in South Africa. The book draws together evidence on how the education systems of Finland, South Korea and the state… Read more

economic development, education systems
BRICS Building Education for the Future
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September 7, 2015

This paper reports a comparative analysis of education trends in Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. Collectively these countries have emerging economies and are known as BRICS. The analysis indicates that the BRICS have shared aspirations but different development trajectories. There are good opportunities for educational progression through knowledge exchange and joint activities. Following… Read more

BRICS, TVET, Vocational Skills
Water and Sanitation
A cluster‐randomized controlled trial evaluating the effect of a hand‐ washing‐promotion programme in Chinese primary schools
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June 4, 2015

Intensive handwashing promotion can reduce diarrheal and respiratory disease incidence. To determine whether less intensive, more scalable interventions can improve health, we evaluated a school-based handwashing program. We randomized 87 Chinese schools to usual practices: standard intervention (handwashing program) or expanded intervention (handwashing program, soap for school sinks, and peer hygiene monitors). We compared student… Read more

handwashing, School
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