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Education
Stratification in higher education: a comparative study
Document Library
January 25, 2016

The mass expansion of higher education is one of the most important social transformations of the second half of the twentieth century. In this publication, scholars from 15 countries, representing Western and Eastern Europe, East Asia, Israel, Australia, and the United States, assess the links between this expansion and inequality in the national context. Contrary to… Read more

access to higher education, higher education expansion, inequality
Education
Health
Nutrition
Will the Sustainable Development Goals lead to a more just, equal world?
Blog
December 3, 2015

The unanimity behind the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) agreed recently by world leaders masks what has been a bruising battle over the past 15 years to put the parameters of ‘aid’ on a more mature footing, where rich and poor nations both have responsibility for the planet’s future. The glue that binds together these… Read more

Climate Change, inequality, SDGs, Sustainable Development Goals
Education
Health
Poverty in a rising Africa: overview
Document Library
November 3, 2015

Poverty in a Rising Africa is the first of a two-part volume on poverty in Africa. aimed at better understanding progress in poverty reduction in Africa and articulating a policy agenda to accelerate it. The report discusses the data challenges faced when measuring poverty and inequality in Africa and systematically reviews the measures of poverty… Read more

Africa, inequality, Poverty, Poverty reduction
Education
Gender
Keeping the Promise: 5 Benefits of Girls’ Secondary Education
Document Library
October 24, 2015

This book explores the benefits of secondary education for girls and the need for greater investment in girls’ secondary education. It highlights the challenges and barriers to education faced by girls. It also examines the social benefits of girls education to the whole society, and links girls secondary education to reduced infant mortality, increaseg childhood immunization and nutrition, reduced… Read more

Access to education, inequality
Education
Knowledge and Education as International Commodities: The Collapse of the Common Good
Document Library
October 24, 2015

This article examines the commodification of education, and it’s positive and negative implications for how we think about schooling and the university, the ownership and transmission of knowledge, and the role of citizenship in modern society, both for nations and for the globalization and internationalisation of education. Underlying this discussion is a conviction that education at all levels is not… Read more

inequality, Internationalisation
Education
Gender
Mother Tongue Education- Girls and Poor/Vulnerable Children
Helpdesk Report
November 17, 2011

This review shows that there is evidence that girls, poor and vulnerable children stay in school longer if they are taught first in their mother tongue. Fifty percent of the world’s out-of-school children live in communities where the language of schooling is rarely, if ever, used at home.  The language used in schools, is one… Read more

achievement, bilingual, Children, dropout, Education, education for all, foreign language, Girls, inequality, language, minority, mother tongue, Poor, School, vulnerable

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