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Author Søndergaard, Lars

Title Skills, not just diplomas : strengthening education systems in Eastern Europe and Central Asia / Lars Sondergaard and Mamta Murthi ; with Dina Abu-Ghaida, Christian Bodewig, and Jan Rutkowski
Published Washington, DC : World Bank, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (1 volume)
Contents The demand for skills in ECA -- Education and the supply of skills to the ECA market -- Resolving the skills shortage in the ECA region: a policy framework -- Managing for results at the pre-university level of education -- Managing for results in the tertiary education sector in ECA -- Advancing adult learning in ECA -- The path for education reforms in the ECA region
Summary Future growth in the countries in Eastern Europe and Central Asia (ECA) will increasingly depend on innovation. And innovation requires skills. This makes it important, as countries plan for recovery, to undertake reforms to reduce the skills shortages that the previous growth episode exposed. Education systems have a very important role to play in creating the right skills. But education systems in the region fall short of the demands of their economies in two major ways. The first is that despite high levels of enrollment they do not produce enough graduates with the right skills. Students gr
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Education -- Europe, Eastern
School management and organization -- Europe, Eastern
Education -- Asia, Central
School management and organization -- Asia, Central
Education
School management and organization
Central Asia
Eastern Europe
Form Electronic book
Author Murthi, Mamta, 1965-
Abu-Ghaida, Dina
ISBN 0821380974
9780821380970