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Escaping a Low-Level Equilibrium of Educational Quality

Rolleston, C; (2016) Escaping a Low-Level Equilibrium of Educational Quality. (RISE Working Papers 16/008). Research on Improving Systems of Education (RISE): Oxford, UK. Green open access

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Abstract

This paper is intended to inform the work of the Intellectual Leadership Team of the UK Department for International Development’s (DFID) Research on Improving Systems of Education (RISE) programme. It draws on data and analysis from the Young Lives project to compare four education systems at various stages of development with respect to the transition from meeting the challenge of providing for ‘mass access’ to that of providing for ‘mass learning’. Success in making this transition, that is, escaping a low-level equilibrium of educational quality in the longer term and once resources are no longer severely constrained by access expansion, is crucial if the benefits of the extension of the right to basic education are to be realised in less developed nations. The paper examines learning outcomes in Peru, Vietnam, Ethiopia and India in the light of indicative frameworks for analysing progress with respect to ‘education quality’ at the systems-level. It intends to contribute to broader aims of RISE in terms of the emerging field of education systems analysis, making use of the insights from Young Lives.

Type: Working / discussion paper
Title: Escaping a Low-Level Equilibrium of Educational Quality
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
Publisher version: https://riseprogramme.org/publications/escaping-lo...
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the version of record. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
Keywords: Education, Ethiopia, Vietnam, India, Peru, International Development, Longitudinal Studies
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Education, Practice and Society
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10089645
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