Knowledge based economies are at advantage in today's liberalized global market. The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries with extensive knowledge assets drive rapid...
The purpose of this paper is to identify access barriers and discriminatory practices in the Chilean higher education system (CHES), specifically focusing on the indigenous population and the poor. The...
This document presents a panorama of international experiences and recent trends. After evoking the rationale for student loans, it discusses the development of this form of student finance from a global...
The ability to create, distribute and exploit knowledge has become a major source of competitive advantage, wealth creation and improvements in the quality of life. These changes imply that science, technology...
This study focuses on the evolution of science and technology in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). Extensive empirical evidence lends support to the proposition that the ability to innovate, develop...
This paper takes stock at the Chilean education system and the country's stock of human capital. The objective is to assess whether Chile's is sufficiently equipped in terms of human capital to take advantage...
This paper stems from work done under the auspices of a World Bank professional development grant 2001-02. The purpose of the grant was to study innovative support and training models for principals in...
Two concepts lie at the core of this paper, internationalization and globalization of higher education. This paper demonstrates that the current globalization process has significant implications for the...
The paper is organized as follows: the subsequent section describes the data and overall developments in educational attainment of the labor force. Section three looks into the labor market value of different...
Colombian policymakers have decided that the expansion and reform of the existing student aid programs, particularly student credit, should represent a primary vehicle for addressing challenges to the...
Colombian economic performance is promising, but the current recession showed the fragility of the economy and the fact that the country cannot sustain growth without major changes in its development strategy...
Teachers' salaries have often been highlighted as very important issue in discussions of school improvement. The level and structure of teacher remuneration are said to affect their morale and their ability...
This study identifies common issues, benefits and constraints regarding local government's education management and institutional change in Colombia. This was accomplished through case studies of four...
This document presents a brief overview of who are the primary school teachers in Latin America and identifies the principle problems faced by human resources policy in the Latin American countries in...
This document presents a brief overview of who are the primary school teachers in Latin America and identifies the principle problems faced by human resources policy in the Latin American countries in...
The two types of education decentralization--to lower levels of government and to individual schools--have very different origins and aims. The decentralization of education to lower levels of government...
Rapid transformations are taking place in tertiary education systems and institutions all over the world. This document examines on-going trends, innovations, initiatives and reforms in the context of...
Peru's famously high levels of infant mortality are concentrated among the poor. In recent years, health outcomes have begun to improve - partly resulted from the overall improvement in incomes and living...
To understand fully the role of violence and the related extent of harm inflicted upon various population groups or individuals in a democratic society, or in any society for that matter, two things are...
Throughout the Latin America region, teacher pay makes up 90 percent of national public education budgets, or between two to six percent of the entire Gross domestic Product. In the quest for educational...