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Experience Exchange between ECA and Latin America: Learning Across Regions
QUALITY: Poor outcomes in relative and absolute terms◦ 57% of 15 yr olds functionally illiterate, compared to
18.8% in OECD and 17.4% in the Russian Federation◦ Rural students 2 full years behind urban peers
EFFICIENCY: Decreasing school age population
Education reform tackling quality, efficiency and relevance
◦ Strengthened quality measurement tools: modernized student assessments; joined PISA (2009 Plus and 2015); consolidated EMIS
◦ Promoted transparency in access to information: school report cards
◦ Introduced per capita financing and decentralization promoting consolidation of school network
Partner supporting education sector for over 5 years through multiple instruments
Education Reform Project supports:1. implementation of quality assurance standards for
receiving schools2. establishment of teachers’ and school directors’ training
and remuneration programs 3. improvement in student assessment systems 4. strengthening efficiency of the sector improvement in the
quality of data and management systems
Disburses against set of indicators (actions, outputs and outcomes) focused on education quality and efficiency
Project designed to disburse USD 6 million once:◦ Training program for teachers and directors is updated and
approved◦ Agreed percentage of teachers and directors are trained under
the updated program◦ New remuneration program for teachers and directors is
adopted
Brainstorming session between key Ministry officials and Bank’s experts focused on teachers’ recruitment, career, remuneration, incentives, and training.
SABER-Teachers 2014 country report identified the strengths and weaknesses of the teacher policies in Moldova and pinpointed areas for improvement.
Grant financing from South to South Facility to promote learning exchange on teacher issues (U$47k)
Increase knowledge base as a first step stone to devising policy reforms
Replicate success; avoid same mistakes
Bonus: Participation of officials from Georgia, promoting intra-regional exchanges
How? Meeting key policy makers, lectures and debriefings from officials and local experts on specific topics, visits to government offices/agencies and schools
Among countries with biggest PISA improvement (2000 and 2012)
Solid assessment systems providing tools to measure and monitor quality
Have tackled various aspects of improving the teaching force, including recruitment, performance evaluations, deployment, accountability and incentives
Chile was the first country to introduce a teacher bonus program (1996)
Brazil provides opportunity to learn interventions at various levels of the system (federal, state and municipal)
Enhanced knowledge, skills and implementation know-how
Establishment of an informal peer network that could function as a sounding board
Enjoyment of the host cities