Priorities and strategies for education : a World Bank review /

Education is critical for economic growth and poverty alleviation. Changing technology and economic reforms are creating dramatic shifts in the structure of econmies, industries and labor markets throughout the world. The rate of acquiring new knowledge and the pace of changing technology raise the...

• Main Author: Burnett, Nicholas
• Corporate Author: Banco Mundial
• Format: Book
• Published: Washington, D.C. : World Bank, 1995
• Series: Development in practice
• Subjects: POLITICA EDUCATIVA; FINANCIAMIENTO DE LA EDUCACION; REFORMA DE LA EDUCACION; DESARROLLO ECONOMICO; PAISES EN DESARROLLO; TERCER MUNDO

Table of Contents:

• Foreword
• Acknowledgments
• Definitions and data notes
• Summary
• Pt. 1. The record of experience and the tasks ahead
• 1. Education and development
• 2. Achievements and challenges
• 3. Public finance for efficiency and equity
• 4. Improving quality
• Pt. 2. Six key reforms
• 5. A higher priority for education
• 6. Attention to outcomes
• 7. Public investment focused on basic education
• 8. Attention to equity
• 9. Household involvement
• 10. Autonomous institutions
• Pt. 3. Implementing change
• 11. The political and social context of change
• 12. The World Bank and education
• References
• Tables
• Figures
• Boxes.