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EDUCATION
1. General Scenario:
Facts
on Education in South
Asia
South-Asia
Emerges as an anti-education zone, by Ranjit Dev Raj, Asia Times
Gender
and Education: A Review of Issues for Social Policy, UNRISD
Regional
Education through Education and Development, South Asia Foundation
National
Security Education Program (NSEP)
Rebuilding
Schools, Rebuilding Lives, ADB
2. Dynamics
of Higher Education: Ideas and Comparisons
Mastering
Globalization: From Ideas to Action on the Higher Education Reform,
David E. Bloom,
Harvard University, 19
September 2002
Globalization
and Higher Education: A view from the South, Speech by Prof. David Bloom
Report
of the Seminar at Aga Khan University on Higher Education in the Developing
world: Promise and Potential
A
power-point presentation by Prof. Henry Rosovsky, Redefining Higher
Education in Pakistan, February 2001
Turning
Higher Education Around, by Pervez Hoodbhoy, Friday Times, February
15 , 2001
3.
Prospects of Education Reform: Lessons and Resources
Secondary
Education Reforms in the Asia-Pacific
The
politics of Education Reform Implementation: Bolstering the Supply
and Demand; countering Institutional Blocks, by Javier Corrales, Department
of Political Science, Amherst University (Paper presented to World Bank)
Academy
for Education Development (Project details – Pakistan, Bangladesh)
The
Center for Education Reform
Education
Reform Support: A framework for Scaling up School Reform, RTI
4. Country-Wise
Scenario
India:
World
Bank Support for Education in India
Department
of Education, Government of India
Educational
Statistics
Comprehensive
list of Organizations working in the field in India
Education
in India: Institutions, statistics and related
information
India Votes on Right to Education, BBC
Pakistan:
The
Northern Areas Community Schools Program in Pakistan
The
Scenario: Education in Pakistan, Rural Education and Development foundation
State
of Education in Pakistan
Education
in Pakistan: Home-truths after half a century,
speech by Thomas W. Simmons, former US Ambassador to Pakistan
What
are they teaching in the Pakistani Schools today, by Pervez Hoodbhoy
Regulating
Education Apartheid in Pakistan, by Prof. Adil Najam
Pakistan Education Fund: Shaping the Future
Bangladesh:
Education
Statistics, Bangladesh Development Gateway
The
Bangladesh Female Secondary School
Assistance Project
Asian University for Women: A brief description (Proposal for
setting up a women University in Bangladesh in 2005)
Education
in Bangladesh
Girls
Education in Bangladesh, UNICEF
ADB
helps reform education sector in Bangladesh, ADB
Strategic
Design for Education in Bangladesh, Center for comparative and Global
studies in Education
Cost-Benefit
analysis of Food for Education in Bangladesh, by Quentin T. Wodon, 1998, World
Bank
Sri Lanka:
Sri
Lanka: Development of Undergraduate Education
The
Education system of Sri Lanka
Education
in Sri Lanka (links to Universities and School
websites)
Directory
of Research Centers in Sri Lanka
A
solemn rite of learning in Sri Lank, by Guy Scandlen and Juliet Bourne,
UNICEF
Education
reforms in Sri Lanka
Sri
Lanka: Curriculum design and Implementation
for upper Primary and General Secondary Education, by A Karunasinghe and K.W. Ganasundara,
UNESCO
Bhutan:
Bhutan Education Development Program
Bhutan: A country in Change
Non-Formal
Education in Bhutan, Ministry of Health and Education,
Bhutan
Bhutan: Curriculum Development for Primary
and Secondary Education, UNESCO
Ensuring
Social Sustainability: Can Bhutan’s Educational System ensure intergenerational
transmission of values by Tashi Wangyal
Bhutan’s Dilemma, theStar online
Afghanistan:
Afghanistan: Emergency Education Rehabilitation
and Development Project
Girl’s
Education in Afghanistan, UNESCO
The
state of Education in Afghanistan
A
Battle for Education in Afghanistan, The Cincinnati Enquirer
Education
in Afghanistan, Encyclopedia Iranica
Education
in Afghanistan: Some Proposals by M.Mobin Shorish
(1978)
Attacks
on Schools for girls hint at a lingering split in Afghanistan by David
Rhode, The New York Times, October 31, 2002 (courtesy California State
University)
Maldives:
Ministry
of Education, Maldives
ADB
to help develop post-Secondary Education in Maldives
Education
in Maldives
Maldives:
Education Policies, Curriculum Design and implementation at the level
of upper primary and general secondary education, UNESCO
Maldives
Innovative teacher-Training, UNESCO
5. SPECIAL
FOCUS:
Education reform in
Pakistan
A
U.S. Strategy for Achieving Stability in
Pakistan: Expanding Educational Opportunities, by Robert
Looney; Center for Contemporary Conflict
Basic
Education in Pakistan and Afghanistan: The Current Crisis and Beyond Monday,
December 17, 2001; A Brookings Forum on Universal Education
Education
for life – first priority, Pakistan Reform Party
Pakistan's
Madrassahs: Ensuring a System of Education not Jihad
Analysis Paper #14, November 2001 by P.W. Singer, John M. Olin Post-doctoral
Fellow, Foreign Policy Studies at Brookings.
Pakistanis
in US urge education reform back home, by Sara Steindorf, Chris, April
16, 2002, The Christian Science Monitor
Task
Force on Improvement of Higher Education in Pakistan, March 2002,
Higher Education in Developing countries, Perils and Promise
Higher
Education in Pakistan: Towards a Reform Agenda, Boston Group and Pak-Millennium conference
Report
Education
(NGOs; grassroots scenario, statistics)
Ministry
of Education, Pakistan
Higher
Education Reform, By Salman Akram Raja, the News, September
23, 2002
Primary
Education and Literacy, USAID,
6. Resources:
Urban
Science Education with Integrated Technologies
Global
Information Networks in Education
Education
Reform Resources
The
Educator’s Bookstore
Global
Education Reform, World Bank
Strategic
Choices for Education Reform, World Bank
Call
for Proposals, Education Research Initiative
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