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Additional authors

1. Lewin, Keith.

Description

1. xii, 332 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

1. "Primary schooling is critically important for the achievement of national development, and access to it has been formally accepted as a human right for almost half a century. But it is still far from being universally available. In fact, only about three-quarters of the eligible children attend primary schools in developing countries. Furthermore, many schools offer an education of a very poor quality. Those out of school amount to about 130 million children, the majority of whom are girls." "This book explores why such high levels of under-enrolment persist, and how the trend could be reversed. It demonstrates that schooling for all could be attained, world-wide, by the turn of the century. Nevertheless, the set of national reforms to educational and economic policies which this would require is demanding. Furthermore, in more than thirty countries, such reforms even if fully implemented in a timely fashion would not be sufficient to generate all the necessary resources. Sharp and sustained increases in financial aid - mainly for the poorest countries of Africa and Asia - will also be required. This book identifies the policies which must be followed by the countries of both the North and the South, if schooling for all children is to be achieved."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

1. Carl-Orff-Volksschule Andechs
2. Education, Elementary > Developing countries > Statistics
3. Education and state > Developing countries > Statistics
4. Educational equalization > Developing countries > Statistics
5. 81.10 educational policy on macro-level: general
6. Pays en développement
7. Politique de l'éducation
8. Enseignement primaire
9. Education and state
10. Education, Elementary
11. Educational equalization
12. Grundschulunterricht
13. Kongress
14. Onderwijsbeleid
15. Gelijke kansen
16. Éducation et État > Pays en voie développment > Statistiques
17. Enseignement primaire > Pays en voie de développement > Statistiques
18. Démocratisation de l'enseignement > Pays en voie de développement
19. Grundschule
20. Developing countries
21. Entwicklungsländer

Genre/Form

1. Statistics.

Contents

1. 1. The Problem Outlined. 2. Post-Independence Expansion of School Systems. 3. Primary Schooling: The Economic and Social Rationale. 4. Does Quality Count? 5. The Private Demand for Primary Schooling -- 2. Differential Progress towards Schooling for All: A Cross-Country Analysis. 2. Definitions of UPE and SFA. 3. Some Dimensions of the Problem. 4. Determinants of the GER. 5. Public Spending and the Attainment of SFA: A Schema. 6. Multivariate Analysis of the Influences on the Achievement of UPE -- Appendix: The Cost and Expenditure Determinants of the Gross Enrolment Ratio -- 3. Case-Studies of Educational Reforms. 2. China: Towards SFA -- Insights from the People's Republic. 3. Zimbabwe: Rapid Achievement of UPE, but at what Cost for Quality? 4. Sri Lanka: Beyond UPE in a Low-Income Country. 5. Ghana: Educational Restructuring for Greater Efficiency. 6. Senegal: Double-Shifting and Reductions in Unit Costs. 7. Colombia: Cost-Effectiveness and the Quality of Rural Schools -- 4. Policy Options for Increasing Access to Schooling. 2. Policies to Reduce the Unit Costs of Schooling. 3. Policies on the Length and Organization of the School Cycle. 4. Redistribution of Expenditure. 5. Raising Additional Financial Resources -- 5. Modelling the Impact of Reforms: Cost and Quality Issues. 2. The Operational Definition of SFA. 3. The Approach to the Simulations. 4. Selection of Promising Reforms. 5. Introduction to the Simulation Model. 6. The Results of the SSA Simulation -- 6. Assessing the Costs and Financing of Schooling for All. 2. A Note on Method. 3. UPE and SFA: Their Impact on Enrolments and Recurrent Costs. 4. The Cumulated Additional Costs of UPE and SFA. 5. How Can These Costs be Financed? -- 7. Aid to Education and Policy Reform. 2. The Aid Record. 3. Danger Signals (1): Aid Effectiveness and Donor Policies. 4. Danger Signals (2): Limits to the Impact of Policy Reform. 5. Danger Signals (3): Problems on the Demand Side.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Note

1. Revision of a paper prepared for the World Conference on Education for All, held March 1990 in Jomtien, Thailand.

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [313]-323) and index.