Resourcing Education: Fund for Innovations and Networking (RE:FINE)|
Monitoring Dropouts and Private Tutoring: Public Awareness Raising and Policy Advocacy Campaigns
2005 Organization: Education Policy Center at Vilnius University Countries involved in Dropouts Study: Albania, Estonia, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Slovakia, Mongolia, and Tajikistan Countries involved in Private Tutoring Study: Georgia, Croatia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ukraine, and Azerbaijan Note: Conditional approval. The RE:FINE committee will need to review the final drafts of the studies before final approval can be given. The aim of the project is to organize presentations and advocacy campaigns for two monitoring initiatives at national, regional and international levels. The advocacy campaign for the Private Tutoring study will stress that private tutoring is present in educational systems and has to be recognized as an educational and socio-economical problem and therefore it should be analyzed and taken into account in educational system reforms. The common objective is to explain the scope, causes and impacts of private tutoring in the participating countries, trying to define similar problems and to find possible solutions to the problems as well as to force policy makers to change the situation. For the Dropouts study the project aims to raise public awareness and advocate for effective strategies to decrease the numbers of students left out from education at an early age. During advocacy campaigns the importance of an improved monitoring of school dropout rates will be stressed. Examples of policies and programs aiming to reduce school dropout rates were collected and they could serve as valuable information for others to identify such problems and search for decisions to be implemented. Outcomes of the project are: attention of the education community, education decision makers and broader society being drawn to the existing problems in education; policy recommendations will be prepared to outline issues and solutions to inform and improve the effectiveness of national policies in these two issues; a virtual platform for storage of databases and continuous updates on private tutoring and drop-outs will be created. |
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Resourcing Education: Fund for Innovations and Networking (RE:FINE)
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