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2014 Newsletter - May

Type: News Archive
Author(s): EPDC
Year of Publishing: 2014
Keywords: Early marriage, early pregnancy, dropout, Afghanista, Nigeria, blog
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The May 2014 newsletter announces the relase of Teenage, Married, and Out of School: Effects of early marriage and childbirth on school dropout. It also announces the launch of the EPDC Data Points blog, and new data added to the database for both Afghanistan and Nigeria.

2014 Newsletter - January

Type: News Archive
Author(s): EPDC
Year of Publishing: 2014
Keywords: Access, learning, learning pyramids, survival, administrative data, household surveys, EPDC news, data notes, Beekungo, DHS, MICS, SACMEQ, PASEC, PIRLS, SERCE
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The January 2014 newsletter announces the release of Long Path to Achieving Education for All: School Access, Learning and Retention in 20 Countries by Ania Chaluda. It also announces the addition of the EPDC News section which features short blurbs about ongoing research in EPDC, and the expansion of the Data Notes section of the website.

2013 Newsletter - October

Type: News Archive
Author(s): EPDC
Year of Publishing: 2013
Keywords: projections, education trends 2000-2025, egypt, myanmar, liberia, honduras, data notes, extractions
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EPDC announces the update of its 2000-2025 country education trends projections, and releases a policy brief and detailed methodology to accompany; new household survey data Honduras and Gabon, new administrative data for Myanmar, Egypt, and Liberia, and new learning outcomes data; also announced is the recent addition of the Data Notes section of the website, as well as notes documents for all countries and household surveys.

2013 Newsletter 1 - June

Type: News Archive
Author(s): EPDC
Year of Publishing: 2013
Keywords: Measurement, access, participation, out of school profiles, learning outcomes, ASER, UWEZO, EGRA
This newsletter announces the release of Out of School Children: Data Challenges in Measuring Access to Education by Carina Omoeva, Benjamin Sylla, Rachel Hatch and Charles Gale. It also announces the release of EPDC's newest profile series on out of school children, based on household surveys and for the 7-14 age group. Additionally, recently added learning outcomes and data updates to the EPDC database.

2012 Newsletter 3 - August

Type: News Archive
Author(s): Ingram
Year of Publishing: 2012
Keywords: Uganda, Tanzania, orphans and vulnerable children, educational performance, attendance, trends and projections 2000-2025, SACMEQ 2007
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This newsletter announces the release of two new publications dealing with the educational impacts of vulnerability; Child Vulnerability and Educational Disadvantage in Uganda: Patterns of School Attendance and Performance by Benjamin Sylla, Carina Omoeva and Anne Smiley, and Most Vulnerable Children in Tanzania: Access to Education and Patterns of Non-attendance by Arushi Terway, Brian Dooley and Anne Smiley.

2012 Newsletter 2 - May

Type: News Archive
Author(s): Ingram
Year of Publishing: 2012
Keywords: Orphans and vulnerable children, forecasting enrollment, compatibility, profiles, Eastern and Southern Africa
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This newsletter announces the publication of Orphans and Vulnerable Children: Trends in School Access and Experience in Eastern and Southern Africa by Anne Smiley, Carina Omoeva, Benjamin Sylla and Ania Chaluda.  It also announces the release of new education profiles, including for East Africa and for Qatar, and presentations on the challenges in multi-country data compatability and on forecasting educational enrollments.

2012 Newsletter 1 - January

Type: News Archive
Author(s): Ingram
Year of Publishing: 2012
Keywords: Universal Basic Education, 2011 Global Monitoring Report, education output, household survey guidelines
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This newsletter announces the release of Universal Basic Education: A Progress-based Path to 2025 by George Ingram.  It also profiles several other EPDC publications, including case studies produced for the 2011 Global Monitoring Report on education in conflict settings, a methodology for measuring education output, and guidelines commissioned by the International Household Survey Network to incorporate education modules in its questionnaires.

2010 Newsletter 2 - August

Type: News Archive
Author(s): Ingram
Year of Publishing: 2010
Keywords: HIPE, 2015 financial gap, GMR
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This edition of the EPDC newsletter announces the use of the new HIPE policy planning tool and its use to project enrollment, teachers and resource needs in Pakistan and Rwanda.  It also highlights updates to the website, including a new Google Earth tool that shows education trends across the globe.

2010 Newsletter 1 - January

Type: News Archive
Author(s): Ingram
Year of Publishing: 2010
Keywords: IIASA, IHSN questionnaire, projections, visualizations, Google Earth, 2010 Global Monitoring Report, Zambia, Namibia, South Sudan, Mozambique
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This edition of the newsletter details a recent collaboration with the Global Monitoring Report team in projecting financial gaps in 46 low-income countries, to achieve Education for All by 2015.  It also announces new education profiles and projections using HIPE for several African countries, and profiles for the 2009 EFA FTI annual report.  Recent collaborations with the International Comparison Program at the World Bank and the International Household Survey Network are also detailed.

2009 Newsletter 1 - March

Type: News Archive
Author(s): Ingram
Year of Publishing: 2009
Keywords: Global educational trends, MICS3, child labor, SACMEQ, wealth, 2009 Global Monitoring Report
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This edition of the newsletter announces the addition of new education indicators using data from MICS3 and DHS datasets, including data on child labor and schooling quality.  It also highlights four background papers commissioned in preparation of the 2009 Global Monitoring Report, including those on schooling efficiency and wealth differentials in school enrollments.

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