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Despite high enrollment rates, students in most low- and middle-income countries were gaining insufficient knowledge and skills.

Despite high enrollment rates, students in most low- and middle-income countries were gaining insufficient knowledge and skills.

THE Academic Recovery and Accessible Learning (Aral) program’s enactment will be key in hastening learning recovery as a priority of the government’s education agenda. In his second State of the Nation Address (Sona), President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. expressed renewed hope in providing the best education to the country’s students,…

Although African governments that deliver higher rates of primary enrollment enjoy greater approval ratings, the relative importance of access is likely to decline as countries approach universal primary education. That is already reflected in the prominence of learning outcomes as a predictor of citizen preference for education as a top government priority for the future. African governments in countries that have a lot of ground to cover in improving learning outcomes would do well to heed the...

This blog is a biweekly feature highlighting recent working papers from around the World Bank Group. It introduces four papers published from October 16 to October 31 on various topics, including trade, COVID-19, education, and public spending.  

The Research Consortium for School Health and Nutrition and its Analytics & Metrics Community of Practice (CoP) is hosting their first virtual seminar, inviting interested researchers, policy makers and practitioners to learn more about existing research studies and evidence in school health and nutrition, hear reflections of high-level decision makers on the use of evidence to influence policy discussions, and to engage in discussions with the speakers and participants. 

School disruptions due to war, pandemics, or natural disasters can have persistent negative effects on learning outcomes. This column estimates the learning losses due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. From a position of relative parity with its neighbours pre-pandemic, learning outcomes in Ukraine are now estimated to be below the lowest-performing countries in Europe.

Projecting school dropout and learning loss amid Covid-19 Covid-19 related school closures have affected 55.3 million children in Pakistan between five and 16 years of age Dr Junaid Ahmed is working as Senior Research Economist at Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, Islamabad. He can be reached at [email protected] The global health crisis amid Covid-19 has adversely affected the education sector, particularly for school-age children. The Covid-19 crisis has resulted in lockdowns, q...

To help students deal with the adverse impacts of school closures, the Government of Bangladesh introduced remote learning. A World Bank study finds that access to these alternative learning methods and their uptake has been low.