Papua New Guinea School Autonomy and Accountability : SABER Country Report 2013
In 2011, the World Bank Group commenced a multi- year program designed to support countries in systematically examining and strengthening the performance of their education systems. Part of the Bank’s new Education Sector Strategy, this evidence ba...
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| Format: | Technical Paper |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2016
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/05/26354776/papua-new-guinea-school-autonomy-accountability http://hdl.handle.net/10986/24483 |
| Summary: | In 2011, the World Bank Group commenced
a multi- year program designed to support countries in
systematically examining and strengthening the performance
of their education systems. Part of the Bank’s new Education
Sector Strategy, this evidence based initiative, called
SABER (Systems Approach for Better Education Results), is
building a toolkit of diagnostics for examining education
systems and their component policy domains against global
standards, best practices, and in comparison with the
policies and practices of countries around the world. By
leveraging this global knowledge, the SABER tools fill a gap
in the availability of data and evidence on what matters
most to improve the quality of education and achievement of
better results. SABER School Autonomy and Accountability is
the first of three SABER domains to be implemented as part
of phase two of the Pacific Benchmarking for Education
Results (PaBER) initiative. Funded by AusAID, the PaBER
initiative aims to link policy with implementation to
identify areas to strengthen policy, improve knowledge
dissemination, and improve the quality of education and
student performance across the pacific. Specifically, the
PaBER project focuses at the primary level of an education
system. The project concept and determination of three pilot
countries Samoa, the Solomon Islands, and Papua New Guinea
was agreed upon at the Pacific Forum Education Ministers
Meeting and is being coordinated through the Secretariat of
the Pacific Board for Educational Assessment (SPBEA). The
SABER School Autonomy and Accountability tool assists in
analyzing how well developed the set of policies are in a
given country to foster managerial autonomy, assess results,
and use information from assessments to promote
accountability. The five main policy goals that can help
benchmark an education system’s policies that enable school
autonomy and accountability were as follows: 1) school
autonomy in the planning and management of the school
budget; 2) school autonomy in personnel management; 3) role
of the School Council in school governance; 4) school and
student assessments; and 5) accountability. |
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