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What’s New on the

EdStats website?

What’s New?

The World Bank Education Statistics Newsletter

The

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Projections of primary completion rates from 2007 to 2025 for

around 140 countries have been added to the Projections

Query. The projections were produced in 2010 by the Educa-

tion Policy and Data Center (EPDC) and are disaggregated by

gender.

Primary Completion Projections to 2025 included

in Projection Query

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Pg. 2 World Bank Educa-

tion Operations by

Sub-Sector

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World Bank Educa-

tion Operations by

Activity

A Closer Look at

Teachers in World

Bank Education Op-

erations

www.worldbank.org/education/edstats/

World Bank Education Projects Database up-

dated with FY10 operations

The World Bank Education Projects Database has been up-

dated with data on 27 education operations approved by the

Education Sector Board in fiscal year 2010.

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In the 2010 fiscal year (FY10), the World Bank’s Education Sector Board approved 27 education op-

erations, 17 (63 percent) of which were new operations and 10 (37 percent) of which were additional

financing for previously approved operations. Each year, EdStats reviews the project documents for

these lending operations and codes them into the World Bank Education Projects Database. The data-

base now holds detailed information on the activities, components, and subsectors of the 323 World

Bank education projects approved by the Education Sector Board between FY98 and FY10.

This newsletter will present a brief analysis of the types of activities proposed and the balance of activi-

ties among education sub-sectors in FY10 World Bank education operations. For more information on

World Bank education operations in a specific country, search the database by country to generate a

list of education projects, project components, and activities carried out in the specified country.

The World Bank’s Work in the Education Sector An Analysis of FY10 Education Operations

I. World Bank Education Operations by Education Sub-Sectors The World Bank education

operations are classified

among the seven subsec-

tors listed in Table 1. The

primary education subsector

was included over half (14)

of FY10 operations, but 7 of

the 14 operations were ad-

ditional financing (AF) for

previously approved educa-

tion projects. There were

more new projects approved

in the secondary education

subsector (10) than in pri-

mary, and almost as many new operations in the tertiary education subsector (6) as primary. Pre-

primary education and vocational education sub-sectors were represented in slightly fewer new opera-

tions (4 and 5, respectively), and only one FY10 project in Nepal included Adult Literacy activities.

Almost 90 percent of projects included activities that addressed the education system level (General

Education Sector) rather than one educational level. The types of activities most commonly proposed

for this sub-sector are management training of Ministry officials, support for decentralization and

Table 1. World Bank Operations in Education Sub-Sectors (FY10)

Source: World Bank EdStats, October 2010

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monitoring and evaluation (M&E), and improvements to Education Management Information Systems

(EMIS). All of the new education operations in FY10 included this subsector, which reflects a focus in

World Bank operations on increasing governments’ capacity to deliver quality education services.

Source: World Bank EdStats, October 2010

The World Bank Education Projects Database includes around 130 potential activities that are com-

monly proposed in education operations. The activities cover a range of categories from Learning

Assessments and Education Financing to Science, Technology and Innovation (STI). Table 2 sum-

marizes the most commonly proposed activities in FY10 education operations.

Almost three quarters of all FY10 World Bank

education projects included professional training

and development or management strengthening

at the system level. Funding mechanisms, typi-

cally in the form of grants to fund school or uni-

versity development plans, were proposed in over

half of the operations. At the basic education

level, these funding mechanisms/grants were of-

ten paired with school-based management (41

percent), school development planning (33 per-

cent), and/or decentralization activities (37 per-

cent).

Monitoring and evaluation (M&E) and education

management information system (EMIS) activities

also were proposed in more than half of the FY10

operations, showing an emphasis on the collec-

tion and organization of education data within

countries. Infrastructure investments in the con-

struction, furnishing, and equipping of educational

buildings were proposed in over 40 percent of op-

erations.

For further information about the countries, opera-

tions and components with the proposed activity,

please search the database by project activity.

II. World Bank Education Operations by Education Activities

Table 2. Most Commonly Proposed Educa-

tion Activities in World Bank Operations

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Table 3. Teacher Activities in FY10

World Bank Education Operations

Source: World Bank EdStats, Oct 2010

III. A Closer Look at Teachers in World Bank Education Operations

Since teachers are a key component in a quality

education system, the World Bank Education Pro-

jects Database includes a variety of activities related

to the training and management of teachers. Figure

3 details the activities included in the database re-

lated to teachers, and reveals a focus on the inser-

vice training of teachers (37 percent of FY10 opera-

tions), university faculty (30 percent), and head

teachers/principals (19 percent). Restructuring the

teacher education system was also one of the most

common teacher activities (19 percent). There

seems to be more of a focus in the FY10 operations

on training teachers over teacher management with

fewer operations proposing activities to tackle diffi-

cult issues such as teacher deployment, perform-

ance assessment, and salaries.

This focused look at teacher activities is one of many

potential detailed queries of project activities that can

be conducted through the World Bank Education

Projects Database Search by Project Activity query.

To learn more about the countries and projects with

these teacher activities, conduct a query for these

activities. For more information about conducting a

query of the World Bank Education Projects data-

base, please see our database tutorial.