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Early childhood development can be one of the most cost-effective interventions for policymakers. An IEG systematic review on Later Impacts of Early Childhood Interventions explores the benefits of...
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Meet 15-year-olds Malee and Opal, two students from Thailand. They both have equal chances to go to school, but might have very different futures because of where they live. Improving the quality of...
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A youth group, Bungaraya, works with the Ministry of Education, schools and communities to strengthen and standardize Tadika Islamic schools in the conflict-affected areas of Southern Thailand.
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Not all poor students can be accommodated in public high schools in Vietnam. Poor students are likely to drop out of school due to high tuition fees at private schools. A World Bank-supported project...
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In 2005, Indonesia passed the Teacher Law to improve the quality of its teachers. Under the new law, teachers must obtain certification by completing a 4-year college degree and by continuing to...
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This year, 56,000 secondary students in Cambodia received scholarships to help pay for textbooks, uniforms and school materials. Fourteen-year-old Vannoy is one of them, and it's made all the...
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After six months unemployed, Elfa, a fresh graduate, accepted a job because it was the only one available and not because it would lead to the career she wants. This, unfortunately, is a situation...
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The World Bank-supported Alternative Learning System Program teaches reading and writing to disadvantaged learners outside the classroom. "Mobile teachers" are bringing schools to communities with...
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China has seen millions of rural workers migrating to cities. But these migrant workers are relatively poorly educated, with the majority lacking skills to prepare them for jobs in the city. A...
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Walking from village to school can take a long time for children in Laos. Children who went home for lunch often wouldn't return to class. So to improve education for all, Laos introduced a national...
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A World Bank-supported project has helped about 150 Vietnamese deaf children use sign language and get better prepared for school and life.
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"Teacher Aye Aye from Myanmar worries whenever students drop out."
Teacher Aye Aye, who is from Myanmar, believes that school is a special place--it's where students discover their talents and...
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For World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim, a technical training program at the Hunan Normal University illustrates how investment in education pays off over time. In 1992 a World Bank loan helped...
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"In China, a mobile classroom travels from village to village."
In the mountainous and remote areas of China’s Ningxia Province, a truck that doubles as a mobile classroom travels from village to...
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"A program offers home-based school preparation for herders' children."
In Mongolia, nomadic herders move about three or four times a year in search of good grazing lands. Because of this, their...
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"Child Development Centers help nomadic herders' kids in Mongolia."
In Mongolia, when nomadic herders' children reach school age, they go to the soum (district) center to attend school. They stay...
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"Chinese Muslims discover another benefit to learning Arabic"
For the more than two million Muslims in Ningxia, it is tradition to learn Arabic and study the Koran. As China strengthened economic...
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During a visit to Indonesia, World Bank Vice President for East Asia and Pacific, Victoria Kwakwa highlights one of the country’s main development challenges: 9 million children under the age of 5...
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In a brief video, Dr. Joon-Kyung Kim, President of the Korea Development Institute, explains how Korea’s new culture of doing things has led to broad-based and sustainable development. The Korea...
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