Textbook Provision for All in Ethiopia : Lessons Learned from the General Education Quality Improvement Project
While Ethiopia has experienced remarkable improvement in access to education, quality of education has hardly kept pace. An acute shortage of teaching/learning materials has particularly hampered learning in primary and secondary education, and the...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2017
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/332851497587372108/Textbook-provision-for-all-in-Ethiopia-lessons-learned-from-the-General-Education-Quality-Improvement-Project http://hdl.handle.net/10986/27554 |
| Summary: | While Ethiopia has experienced
remarkable improvement in access to education, quality of
education has hardly kept pace. An acute shortage of
teaching/learning materials has particularly hampered
learning in primary and secondary education, and the limited
materials available frequently turn out to be of poor
quality. For a low-income country such as Ethiopia, where
class sizes are large, teachers often are untrained, and
instructional time is cut short by various contingencies,
access to good quality teaching/learning materials can
greatly improve the quality of education. In 2010-11, to the
benefit of the overall quality of education, newly developed
textbooks and teaching guides started to become widely
available in Ethiopia under the General Education Quality
Improvement Project (GEQIP). GEQIP is a two-phase program
led by the government with active participation of eight
development partners; and all funding sources are pooled,
and the World Bank is the supervising entity. The program is
designed to improve quality of general education in Ethiopia
through five components: curriculum reform and textbook
provision; a teacher development program; a school
improvement program; management and capacity building; and
the use of information and communication technology in
education. This report draws on a review of project
documents, policy papers, and survey reports, in addition to
discussions with stakeholders, to gain insight into the most
common barriers to making teaching/learning materials
available on a long-term basis and identify strategies for
overcoming them. |
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