Punjab’s great gamble: Will the huge public-school-outsourcing experiment pay off?
Pakistan just has become the ground zero for one of the world’s largest public school outsourcing experiments.
Author: Monazza Aslam
Celebrating evidence from the Girls’ Education Challenge
In this blog, we highlight lessons from the independent evaluation studies we led on according to the six themes that were identified in the GEC research feasibility study.
Transforming Pakistan’s Education Future Through Evidence-Based Research
In May 2024, the Prime Minister of Pakistan, Shehbaz Sharif, declared an ‘Education Emergency’ across Pakistan. This declaration comes at perhaps the most critical juncture in Pakistan’s educational history – with 26 million children out of school and a country ranked as the 8th most vulnerable to the impacts of…
Synthesising impact: Three reports presenting lessons for policy and practice from across the ESRC/FCDO Raising Learning Outcomes programme
Starting in 2014, the ESRC and FCDO’s £20 million joint Raising Learning Outcomes (RLO) programme has spanned 20 countries, with 30 projects spread over three funding calls. Projects funded through the programme have produced a significant portfolio of research which provides policymakers, practitioners and the global education research community with…
Adapting interventions to strengthen teaching quality during the COVID-19 pandemic: Experience of the Girls’ Education Challenge in Afghanistan, Ghana and Sierra Leone
This blog was written by: Monazza Aslam (OPERA), Phoebe Downing (REAL Centre, University of Cambridge), Romanshi Gupta (Tetra Tech), Shenila Rawal (OPERA), Pauline Rose (REAL Centre,...