Per Student Financing in ECA School Systems
By the turn of the century, the decreasing efficiency and deteriorating quality of education systems in Eastern Europe and Central Asia (ECA) had reached a critical point. Many countries were facing serious resource allocation problems in general e...
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| Format: | Brief |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2012
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2009/06/11137857/student-financing-eca-school-systems http://hdl.handle.net/10986/10250 |
| Summary: | By the turn of the century, the
decreasing efficiency and deteriorating quality of education
systems in Eastern Europe and Central Asia (ECA) had reached
a critical point. Many countries were facing serious
resource allocation problems in general education. While the
region had seen sweeping political, economic and population
changes, countries continued to manage schools with
traditional and centralized institutions. Budgets were
allocated on the basis of past history, even as school age
populations declined and moved. Consequently, the region had
an excessive number of schools, with very low student and
teacher ratios. For example, 47 percent of all schools in
Armenia had less than 300 students by 2003, and Lithuania
averaged only 12 students per teacher from 2000-2005. |
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