Tag Archives: Education

Measuring attitudes regarding female genital mutilation through a list experiment

Posted on December 28, 2015 by

Female genital mutilation (FGM) or female genital cut or female circumcision includes all procedures that alter or cause injure to the female genital organs. They are mainly carried out on young girls. FGM is recognized as an extreme form of … Continue reading →

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Gender equity in schools in Muslim countries: it can be done

Posted on October 20, 2014 by

Muslim countries worldwide have problems with gender equality. They dominate the bottom ten countries in the Global Gender Gap Report and none of the ten most successful countries offering equal opportunities for men and women is Muslim. Girls lag behind … Continue reading →

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The Future in Mind: Aspirations and Forward-Looking Behaviour in Rural Ethiopia

Posted on October 8, 2014 by

A person’s aspirations, or goals and targets for their future, can be a driving force in their life, providing motivation and guiding their choices. In forming aspirations, all people dismiss some options for their future lives, and fail to even … Continue reading →

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How useful is education in Africa?

Posted on July 17, 2014 by

Travelling around any poor country in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) the visitor is struck by how far schools outnumber factories. The large number of schools is due partly to the success of one of the MDGs which is that primary education … Continue reading →

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What Schooling Did: The effect of education on the educated, their families and their communities

Posted on March 25, 2014 by

In the most optimistic view of the world, education is meant to be transformative, changing the fortunes of individuals and their families, and spreading by example to the peers of the educated. While this view accords with the policy rhetoric … Continue reading →

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A new way of measuring the different benefits of going to school

Posted on December 13, 2013 by

Designing effective schooling policies requires understanding what motivates school enrolment decisions. This partly explains why so many empirical studies have attempted to measure the wage benefits that individuals receive from an additional year of schooling (or the rate of return … Continue reading →

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The reverse couch potato effect: the impact of inspirational movies on aspirations and expectations

Posted on November 1, 2013 by

Documentary screening, iiG Programme (DFID funded) (Owner: Kate Orkin) – Licence: Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0).Link to Licence: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/   Do people believe that they are in control of their future outcomes? And how do expectations of what can … Continue reading →

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Are contract teachers worth the hype?

Posted on May 14, 2012 by

Everyone complains about ‘failing’ state schools, but some countries are entitled to more of a gripe. State school teachers in a lot of countries just don’t show up for work, students in these schools can’t add and multiply despite years … Continue reading →

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