World leaders in New York for the MDG summit must reaffirm education as a human right and as a major driver of economic and social development. Christopher Colclough, Elaine Unterhalter and the Right to Education Project Since the turn of the millennium, global access to schooling has expanded substantially: an additional 20% of primary school-age [...]
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All nations are committed, via espousal of the MDGs, to eliminate gender disparities in education over the next few years. Priorities for policy change to achieve gender goals can best be informed by an understanding of the causes of existing inequalities, which are dependent on national contexts, history and social and economic conditions. Nevertheless, [...]
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Our recent policy brief no. 4 is devoted to discussing in some detail this important issue in the economics of education. It is a joint output by myself, Prof. Geeta Kingdon (IoE) and Harry Patrinos. Below I present a summary of the above paper to enable readers’ comments. Those who are interested in the topic [...]
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