Do Scholarships Help Students Continue Their Education?
The World Bank is committed to assisting developing countries raise their educational standards, part of the United Nations millennium development goals. The work includes supporting projects that explore how best to support children staying in sch...
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okr-10986-104742021-04-23T14:02:50Z Do Scholarships Help Students Continue Their Education? World Bank ATTENDANCE RATES BETTER LEARNING DISADVANTAGED GROUPS EDUCATION BEYOND PRIMARY EDUCATION EXPERTS EDUCATION REFORM EDUCATION SECTOR EDUCATION SYSTEM EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS EDUCATIONAL STANDARDS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS ENROLLMENT RATE GIRLS GIRLS IN SCHOOL HIGHER ENROLLMENT HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INTERVENTIONS JOB OPPORTUNITIES LEARNING LEARNING ASSESSMENTS LEARNING OUTCOMES LEVELS OF EDUCATION LITERACY LITERACY RATE LITERACY RATE FOR MALES LOWER LEVELS OF EDUCATION LOWER SECONDARY LOWER SECONDARY SCHOOL MATH TEST NET ENROLLMENT PRIMARY SCHOOL QUALITY EDUCATION RESEARCHERS SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAMS SCHOLARSHIPS SCHOOL ATTENDANCE SCHOOL DROPOUT SCHOOL ENROLLMENT SCHOOL ENTRY SCHOOL VISITS SCHOOL YEAR SCHOOL YEARS SCHOOLING SCHOOLS SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENT ENROLLMENT TEACHER TEACHER QUALITY TEACHERS TEST SCORES TUTORS The World Bank is committed to assisting developing countries raise their educational standards, part of the United Nations millennium development goals. The work includes supporting projects that explore how best to support children staying in school. One recent project was in Cambodia, where boys and girls from poor families were offered scholarships if they continued beyond primary school. The project's evaluation, which ran over two school years, showed that scholarships worked as a way of getting children to stay in school. But it also found that children who were offered scholarships did not do measurably better on vocabulary or math tests than peers who were not offered scholarships-despite the fact that the former group had higher enrollments and attendance. Cambodia has had numerous scholarship programs funded by the government and outside donors. One project, funded by the Japan fund for poverty reduction, tried to keep girls in school by giving their families annual cash 'scholarships'-which could be used for any purpose- during the first three years of secondary school. The project covered the 2003- 2006 school years and raised school attendance rates by 20 to 30 percentage points. Building on that experience, a government program supported by the World Bank's Cambodia education sector support project was launched in such a way as to test the optimal scholarship amount and measure the effect on both boys and girls. 2012-08-13T11:41:12Z 2012-08-13T11:41:12Z 2010-10 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2010/10/13039061/scholarships-help-students-continue-education http://hdl.handle.net/10986/10474 English From Evidence to Policy CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research :: Brief Publications & Research East Asia and Pacific Cambodia |
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ATTENDANCE RATES BETTER LEARNING DISADVANTAGED GROUPS EDUCATION BEYOND PRIMARY EDUCATION EXPERTS EDUCATION REFORM EDUCATION SECTOR EDUCATION SYSTEM EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS EDUCATIONAL STANDARDS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS ENROLLMENT RATE GIRLS GIRLS IN SCHOOL HIGHER ENROLLMENT HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INTERVENTIONS JOB OPPORTUNITIES LEARNING LEARNING ASSESSMENTS LEARNING OUTCOMES LEVELS OF EDUCATION LITERACY LITERACY RATE LITERACY RATE FOR MALES LOWER LEVELS OF EDUCATION LOWER SECONDARY LOWER SECONDARY SCHOOL MATH TEST NET ENROLLMENT PRIMARY SCHOOL QUALITY EDUCATION RESEARCHERS SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAMS SCHOLARSHIPS SCHOOL ATTENDANCE SCHOOL DROPOUT SCHOOL ENROLLMENT SCHOOL ENTRY SCHOOL VISITS SCHOOL YEAR SCHOOL YEARS SCHOOLING SCHOOLS SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENT ENROLLMENT TEACHER TEACHER QUALITY TEACHERS TEST SCORES TUTORS |
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ATTENDANCE RATES BETTER LEARNING DISADVANTAGED GROUPS EDUCATION BEYOND PRIMARY EDUCATION EXPERTS EDUCATION REFORM EDUCATION SECTOR EDUCATION SYSTEM EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS EDUCATIONAL STANDARDS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS ENROLLMENT RATE GIRLS GIRLS IN SCHOOL HIGHER ENROLLMENT HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INTERVENTIONS JOB OPPORTUNITIES LEARNING LEARNING ASSESSMENTS LEARNING OUTCOMES LEVELS OF EDUCATION LITERACY LITERACY RATE LITERACY RATE FOR MALES LOWER LEVELS OF EDUCATION LOWER SECONDARY LOWER SECONDARY SCHOOL MATH TEST NET ENROLLMENT PRIMARY SCHOOL QUALITY EDUCATION RESEARCHERS SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAMS SCHOLARSHIPS SCHOOL ATTENDANCE SCHOOL DROPOUT SCHOOL ENROLLMENT SCHOOL ENTRY SCHOOL VISITS SCHOOL YEAR SCHOOL YEARS SCHOOLING SCHOOLS SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENT ENROLLMENT TEACHER TEACHER QUALITY TEACHERS TEST SCORES TUTORS World Bank Do Scholarships Help Students Continue Their Education? |
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The World Bank is committed to assisting
developing countries raise their educational standards, part
of the United Nations millennium development goals. The work
includes supporting projects that explore how best to
support children staying in school. One recent project was
in Cambodia, where boys and girls from poor families were
offered scholarships if they continued beyond primary
school. The project's evaluation, which ran over two
school years, showed that scholarships worked as a way of
getting children to stay in school. But it also found that
children who were offered scholarships did not do measurably
better on vocabulary or math tests than peers who were not
offered scholarships-despite the fact that the former group
had higher enrollments and attendance. Cambodia has had
numerous scholarship programs funded by the government and
outside donors. One project, funded by the Japan fund for
poverty reduction, tried to keep girls in school by giving
their families annual cash 'scholarships'-which
could be used for any purpose- during the first three years
of secondary school. The project covered the 2003- 2006
school years and raised school attendance rates by 20 to 30
percentage points. Building on that experience, a government
program supported by the World Bank's Cambodia
education sector support project was launched in such a way
as to test the optimal scholarship amount and measure the
effect on both boys and girls. |
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Do Scholarships Help Students Continue Their Education? |
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