Education and Learning
In the past several years, there have been improvements in Peruvian education. For example, enrollment rates have increased, and there is an observable trend toward improvement in standardized test scores. However, there is still much to be done in terms of the quality, equality, and relevance of education in Peru.
Therefore, all GRADE studies focus on identifying the existing challenges for the Peruvian educational system in achieving its intended impact on society. In these studies, GRADE researchers place significant emphasis on educational inequality. As such, our researchers have conducted studies on the effects of poverty, living in rural areas, race and ethnicity (with a focus on indigenous peoples and the Afro-Peruvian community), and disability on educational opportunities and success. GRADE researchers have likewise incorporated a gender component into many studies.
Informed by these studies as well as others, GRADE researchers have been directly involved in policy debates in numerous sectors of government, including those of the Ministry of Education and other institutions working on topics in education.
Senior Researchers
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Lorena Alcázar Valdivia
PhD en Economics - Washington University
Lorena has a BA in Economics from the Pacific University in Peru, a Master’s Degree in Political and International Economy from the Kiel Institute of World Economics, and a PhD in Economics from Washington University. She is currently a Senior Researcher at the Group for the Analysis of Development (GRADE). Previously, she served as Vice-President […]
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María Balarin Bonazzi
PhD en Educational Policy - University of Bath
María is a Senior Researcher at the Group for the Analysis of Development (GRADE) where she has a broad portfolio of both applied and academic research. Her applied work focuses on the analysis and qualitative evaluation of educational and social policies, with a special focus on processes of policy implementation. Her academic work has mostly focused […]
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Martín Benavides Abanto (on leave)
PhD en Sociology - Pennsylvania State University
Martín Benavides has a PhD in Sociology from Pennsylvania State University where he also attained a Master’s Degree in Education Policy. He has a degree in Sociology and a BA in Sociology from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, and has been a visiting student on issues of social mobility and inequality at Nuffield College […]
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Santiago Cueto Caballero
PhD en Educational Psychology - Indiana University
Santiago Cueto holds a degree in Educational Psychology from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru and a PhD in the same field from Indiana University in the United States. He has been a Visiting Researcher at the University of California at Davis and the University of Oxford. He is currently a Senior Researcher at GRADE, […]
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Gabriela Guerrero Barnechea
PhD en Educational Sciences - KU Leuven
Gabriela Guerrero has a PhD in Educational Sciences from the KU Leuven in Belgium and a Master’s Degree in Development Studies with a major in Public Policy from the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague, The Netherlands. She has a Bachelor’s Degree in Educational Psychology from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. She is currently a […]
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Juan León Jara-Almonte
PhD en - Pennsylvania State University
Juan has a PhD in Educational Theory and Policy and Comparative & International Education from Pennsylvania State University. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Social Sciences with mention in Economics from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Currently, he is a Senior Researcher at GRADE. His research interests are inequality in education, intercultural bilingual education, early […]
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Patricia McLauchlan de Arregui
M.A. en Sociology - Johns Hopkins University
Patricia McLauchlan de Arregui graduated in Sociology from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. She obtained her MA and concluded her doctoral studies in Sociology at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. She has worked for GRADE as a Senior Researcher since 1985 and was Executive Director of the institution between 1988 and 1998. Her […]
Associated Researchers
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Carmela Chávez Irigoyen
PhD en - Pontifical Catholic University of Peru
Carmela Chávez Irigoyen holds a PhD in Sociology from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, where she also obtained a Degree in Sociology and a Bachelor’s Degree in Social Sciences. She has a Master’s Degree in Advanced Studies in Human Rights and a Master’s Degree in Fundamental Rights from the Carlos III University in Madrid. […]
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Vanessa Rojas Arangoitia
PhD en - Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona
Vanessa holds a PhD in Sociology from Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona. She has a degree in Anthropology and a Master’s degree in Political Science from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. Her work has focused on the anthropology of education and childhood, addressing issues of educational transitions, child welfare, educational quality and power relations. During 2012, she […]
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Néstor Valdivia Vargas
PhD candidate en Sociology - El Colegio de México
Néstor Valdivia is studying for a PhD in Sociology at El Colegio de México and holds a degree in Sociology from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. He is currently an Associate Researcher at GRADE in the fields of poverty and equality, education, the labor market and human development. He has worked on development and […]
Adjunct Researchers
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Antonio Campos Flores
PhD candidate en - University of San Andrés, Argentina
Antonio is a PhD Candidate in Economics from the University of San Andrés in Argentina. He holds a Master’s Degree in Economics from the University of San Andrés and a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics from the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos. He has been a coordinator of educational policy evaluations at the Ministry of […]
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Liliana Miranda Molina
Master en - Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Liliana has a master’s degree in Education Research from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and a degree in Sociology from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (PUCP). She worked at the Ministry of Education (MINEDU), first as Head of MINEDU’s Quality Measurement Unit and then as Vice-Minister of Pedagogical Management. Currently, Liliana is an Adjunct […]
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María Fernanda Rodríguez García
Master en - Cambridge University
María Fernanda holds a master’s degree in Education, Globalization & International Development from Cambridge University in United Kingdom and a degree in Sociology from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. She returns to GRADE as an Adjunct Researcher.
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Paola Sarmiento Huerta
Master in Arts en - University of British Columbia
Paola holds a MA on Educational Policy from University of British Columbia (UBC) and has a degree in Educational Psychology from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. She has been part of educational reform processes in Peru such as the Public Teaching Career and the University Reform. In addition, she has been a member of the […]
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Claudia Sugimaru Arakaki
Máster en Educational Sciences - KU Leuven
Claudia holds a Master’s degree in Educational Sciences from KU Leuven in Belgium and a degree in Psychology with a major in Education from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. Currently, she is an Adjunct Researcher at GRADE.
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Jessica Tapia Soriano
Master en - Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO)
Jessica holds a Master’s degree in Social Sciences with an orientation on Education from the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO) in Argentina. Currently she is an Adjunct Researcher at GRADE and the Pedagogical Coordinator of the Growing with Multigrade Rural Schools in Peru (CREER) Project.
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Verónica Villarán Bedoya
Master en - Social Sciences with an orientation on Education
Verónica holds a Degree in Social Psychology from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru and a Master’s degree in Social Sciences with an orientation on Education from the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO) in Argentina. Between 2011 and 2014 she worked at the Ministry of Education, first as Director of Educational Research and Documentation and […]
External Consultants
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Marcela Ponce de León
Master en - University College London
Marcela holds a Master in Policy Studies in Education from the University College London, UK and has a degree in Sociology from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. She returns to GRADE as a consultant for the “Design of an evidence-based project on early childhood development in Peru for the Porticus Foundation” project lead by Gabriela […]
Research Assistants
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Gera Ríos Espinoza
Graduate en -
Gera is a graduate of Economics at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Gera is a research assistant in the “Conecta Ideas” project.
Project Support Staff
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Mónica Lizama Egoavil
Degree en - National Agrarian University
Mónica studied Statistical and Computer Science Engineer at the National University Agrarian La Molina. Currently she is the Data Manager for Young Lives in Peru. Before joining Young Lives, Mónica worked as a statistics assistant at the Peruvian National Institute of Statistics (INEI) and the International Nutrition Institute (IIN).
External Affiliated Researchers
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David Baker
PhD en - Johns Hopkins University
David P. Baker is Professor of Education and Sociology at the Pennsylvania State University. His research focuses on the impact of education on individuals and societies, international comparisons of school organization, academic outcomes, and educational policy. His most recent book is The Schooled Society: The Educational Transformation of Global Culture. Palo Alto CA: Stanford University […]
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Jere R. Behrman
Ph.D. en - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Professor Behrman is a leading international researcher in empirical microeconomics, with emphasis on developing economies. He is also a Research Associate at Penn’s Population Studies Center. His research interests include empirical microeconomics, labor economics, human resources (early childhood development, education, health, nutrition), project evaluation, economic demography, incentive systems and household behaviors. The unifying dimension of […]
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Marjorie Chinen
PhD en - University of California
Marjorie is a Ph.D. in Education with emphasis on Advanced Quantitative Methods in Social Research Methodology from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She has over 15 years of experience in project management, technical assistance, research and fieldwork in international development. She has led multiple projects in different areas of education, and designed and […]
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Marta Favara
PhD en - University of Essex
Marta is a Senior Researcher at the Oxford Department of International Development at the University of Oxford where she is leading the quantitative research agenda of Young Lives since 2015. She is also a Research Fellow at the Oxford Martin School Programme on African Governance and an IZA Research Affiliate. Before joining Young Lives, she […]
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Sonia Laszlo
PhD en - University of Toronto
Sonia Laszlo is Associate Professor of Economics and Director of the Institute for the Study of International Development. Her main research areas cover many aspects of applied microeconomic analysis in economic development: rural development, access to markets, and the relationship between income, health and education in economic development. In addition to using traditional analytic tools […]
Visiting Researchers
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Claudia Galindo
PhD en - Pennsylvania State University
Claudia holds a Ph.D. in Educational Theory and Policy and Comparative & International Education from Pennsylvania State University, and a post-doctoral degree in Social Organization of Schools from Johns Hopkins University. She is an Associated Professor at University of Maryland, Baltimore County where she teaches in the fields of educational inequalities, inmigration and research methodologies.
Publications
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Las pedagogías invisibles de género en escuelas multigrado rurales Análisis de prácticas pedagógicas
2020 Themis Castellanos, María José Sánchez
Este informe presenta los hallazgos del procesamiento y análisis de la información recolectada en el estudio realizado por el proyecto CREER en Cajamarca, Piura y Loreto durante el segundo semestre del año escolar 2019. El objetivo de este estudio era hacer un análisis de género de las prácticas pedagógicas de un conjunto de escuelas multigrado […]
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La educación multigrado: debates, problemas y perspectivas
2020 Liliana Miranda
En el mundo rural, el rostro de la educación peruana es la escuela multigrado. Por esta razón, el proyecto CREER tiene como objetivo mejorar los aprendizajes y las condiciones de bienestar en las escuelas rurales multigrado primarias castellanohablantes del Perú. En este marco se inscribe el presente documento, elaborado por Liliana Miranda, que busca ofrecer […]
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JournalJournal of Development Economics
The value of redistribution: Natural resources and the formation of human capital under weak institutions
2020 Jorge Aguero, Carlos Felipe Balcázar, Stanislao Maldonado, Hugo Ñopo
Researchers exploit time and spatial variation generated by the commodities boom to measure the effect of natural resources on human capital formation in Peru, a country with low governance indicators. Combining testscores from over two million students and district-level administrative data of mining taxes redistributed to localgovernments, they find sizable effects on student learning from […]
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Acceso a dispositivos y habilidades digitales de dos cohortes en el Perú
2020 Santiago Cueto, Juan Leon,
The technical note on which this policy brief is based details the construction of two indicators: basic computer skills and basic internet skills. This document also explores the determinants of access and digital skills in Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam. However, this publication focuses on the findings for Peru.
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Poor education and precarious jobs in Peru: Understanding who is left behind and why
2020 Lorena Alcazar, Micaela Bullard, Maria Balarin
Given the large inequalities in Peru, fulfilling the ’leave no one behind’ UN 2030 Agenda commitment might become the country’s largest challenge to SDG implementation. In light of this, understanding who is left behind, and why, gains particular importance. This study uses a mixed methodological approach to provide a baseline of the left behind in […]
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Broken Gears: The Value Added of Higher Education on Teachers’ Academic Achievement
2014,
A growing literature establishes that good teachers are essential for high quality educational systems. However, little is known about teachers’ skills formation during their college years. In this paper we use a novel panel data set combining two standardized tests for Colombian students: one that is taken at the end of senior year in high […]
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Measuring the Relative Pay of Latin American School Teachers at the turn of the 20th Century
2014,
How much are teachers paid in comparison to those in other professions in Latin America? How have these differences evolved at the turn of the 20th century? This paper documents the extent to which teachers are underpaid vis-à-vis workers in other professional and technical occupations in thirteen Latin-American countries circa 2007. It also analyses the […]
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Estado de la cuestión sobre experiencias y buenas prácticas internacionales en materia de Bienestar Docente
2014
La Dirección General de Desarrollo Docente (DIGEDD) del Ministerio de Educación tiene entre sus funciones el diseño de políticas de evaluación, trayectoria y bienestar docente en una perspectiva de desarrollo profesional permanente. Con la finalidad de contribuir al diseño de políticas públicas orientadas a la revalorización y bienestar de los docentes del sistema educativo público […]
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The structural relationship between nutrition, cognitive and non-cognitive skills: evidence from four developing countries
2013Alan Sanchez,
Sánchez studies the way in which cognitive and non-cognitive skills are simultaneously acquired in the transition from childhood to adolescence using longitudinal data from four countries: Peru, India, Vietnam and Ethiopia.
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Informe completo sobre la reforma curricular
2013
Luis Guerrero presenta un breve balance personal de la reforma curricular iniciada en los años 90 en el país, a manera de tesis y en base a su propia experiencia como testigo y participante, directo o indirecto, de ese largo proceso.
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JournalRevista Foro Educativo
Descentralización educativa y niveles intermedios: algunos temas pendientes sobre el rol de las UGEL
2007, Nestor Valdivia,
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JournalThe Lancet
Developmental potential in the first 5 years for children in developing countries
2007, , Santiago Cueto, ,
Many children younger than 5 years in developing countries are exposed to multiple risks, including poverty, malnutrition, poor health, and unstimulating home environments, which detrimentally affect their cognitive, motor, and social-emotional development.
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JournalPrimary Review Research Survey
Parenting, Caring and Educating
2007Maria Balarin,
In this survey of published research we review changing patterns in the structure of the families and identify trends in parenting and caring for today’s generation of primary school children.
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JournalRevista de Estudios Económicos
Dolarización financiera, el enfoque de portafolio y expectativas: evidencia para América Latina
2012Alan Sanchez,
El objetivo de este documento es probar la relevancia empírica del enfoque de portafolio de varianza mínima (PVM) utilizando información de 15 países de América Latina en el período 1995-2005.
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JournalInternational Journal of Educational Research
Research on education equity and quality in developing and transition countries
2006Santiago Cueto, ,
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Sentido y práctica de la moral según Piaget
Piaget entre nosotros1997Santiago Cueto,
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Juventud, violencia y educación
Necesidades y demandas para un cambio en educación1996Martín Benavides,
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Educación pública y educación privada en el Perú: su impacto relativo sobre los ingresos. Evidencia basada en encuestas de hogares
¿Cómo estamos?: análisis de la encuesta de niveles de vida1996
El propósito de este ensayo es evaluar el impacto relativo del tipo de gestión de la institución educativa (pública o privada) sobre el ingreso de sus egresados en el Perú.
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Organización y financiamiento del sistema ciencia-tecnología-innovación: una experiencia de seguimiento regional
Financiamiento sostenido para la investigación y el desarrollo tecnológico en Iberoamérica -
Comando sur: la metáfora de la familia y el poder de la tradición
Fútbol, identidad, violencia y racionalidad1994Martín Benavides,
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Projects
- Utilización de evaluación de logros de aprendizajeMarch 2005
- Impacto del Banco Mundial en la educación primariaMarch 2005
- Programa de Intervención Educativa en la Zona de Influencia de AntaminaFebruary 2005
- Participación de las familias en el proceso educativoJanuary 2005
- Oportunidades de aprendizaje y nivel socioeconómico en comunicación y matemática: el rol del docenteJanuary 2005
- El Rol de los Niveles Intermedios en el Gobierno de las Escuelas: su incidencia en el Logro de la EquidadNovember 2004
News
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What would Vizcarra say?, by Hugo Ñopo
April 1, 2018 Education and learning
What does Martin Vizcarra’s experience in education tell us? Our senior researcher Hugo Ñopo writes in El Comercio about the achievement in learning indicators of students in Moquegua while Vizcarra was its regional president, and what could be attempted at the national level.
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Our researchers joined the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Comparative and International Education Society CIES 2018
March 31, 2018 Education and learning
Many of our senior researchers joined the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Comparative and International Education Society CIES 2018, as speakers, chairs and discussants. The event, from March 25 to 29 de marzo in Ciudad de México, addressed the theme of “Re-Mapping Global Education: South-North Dialogue.” Attendees had been called to reflect on the divisions that are built into […]
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María Balarin joined a workshop and seminar on educational segregation, held by the Educational Justice Center and the University of Chile’s Center for Advanced Research in Education
March 15, 2018 Education and learning
“The evidence shows, convincingly, that markets in education deepen segregation,” explained our principal investigator, María Balarin, at the International Seminar “Social and academic inclusion. From politics to school”, held on Wednesday, March 14 by the Educational Justice Center —an institute formed by the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile and the universities of Tarapacá, Magallanes, de la […]
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Hugo Ñopo’s thoughts on the number of informal schools in Lima and the country
March 6, 2018 Education and learning
According to Hugo Ñopo, senior researcher at GRADE, the number of informal schools in Lima is linked to the increase in private enrollment, which in our capital stands for 50%, and to the preference of many parents for this type of educational offer: “It is a heterogeneous increase, although one part is of high quality, […]
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Martín Benavides has been appointed as interim head of Sunedu
March 2, 2018 Education and learning, State reform and public institutions
Through the Supreme Resolution No. 002-2018-MINEDU, published in the official newspaper El Peruano, the Ministry of Education appointed our senior researcher, Martin Benavides, as interim head of the National Superintendent of University Higher Education (Sunedu) who was vice president of the board of directors of Sunedu. Check Martin’s profile in the Sunedu here.
Events
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Mexico: Santiago Cueto is a speaker at an international seminar on educationa reforms in Latin America
03/05/2019 10:50 am - 12:50 pm FLACSO México, Unidad de Seminarios II (Ciudad de México, México) Education and learning
Our Executive Director, Santiago Cueto, joins the International Seminar on Political Processes, Evaluation and Educational Reforms in Latin America. The event, taking place in Mexico City on May 2 and 3, is held by the National Institute for the Evaluation of Education (INEE), the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) and the Latin American School of Social Sciences (Flacso). The seminar it […]
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Santiago Cueto will be a speaker at the UNMSM III International Seminar on Comparative Education
27/04/2019 Auditorio del Pabellón Académico de la Facultad de Educación de la Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos Education and learning
The findings during fifteen years of research of the longitudinal study Young Lives Peru will be shared by Santiago Cueto, country coordinator and senior researchers at GRADE, on the second day of the III International Seminar on Comparative Education. The event, hedl by the Faculty of Education of the National University of San Marcos, will take […]
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Lorena Alcázar shared the findings of her Southern Voice study on those left behind in SDG 4 and SDG 8 in Peru
22/04/2019 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm Dag Hammarskjold 3477, Auditorio Enrique V. Iglesias, Santiago, Chile Education and learning, Employment, productivity and innovation
Southern Voice, the United Nations Foundation and Espacio Público held a panel on the synergies between Sustainable Development Goal 8 (decent employment) and Sustainable Development Goal 4 (quality education) and its implications in Latin America. Both goals are part of the High-Level Policy Forum 2019 review. In the event, the findings of the mismatch between the education […]
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Santiago will share the scope of the Connecting Ideas project at the SUMMA-laCaixa Foundation international seminar on ICT and teacher training
11/04/2019 9:00 am - 1:30 pm Auditorio de GRADE (Av. Almirante Grau, 915) Education and learning
How to use global evidence on effective practices to improve teacher training? How to use ICTs to accelerate the impact and scaling of best practices? How to advance in the improvement of learning, attending simultaneously to the challenges of quality, equity and educational inclusion? These are the questions that frame the international seminar Promoting teacher […]
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Call: 2019 Young Lives Peru’s Methodological Workshop
03/04/2019 → 05/04/2019 Auditorio de GRADE (Av. Almirante Grau 915, Barranco) Education and learning, Poverty and equality, Health and nutrition
Do you want to learn the methods and data of the largest longitudinal study currently carried out in Peru? Apply until March 22 to the 2019 Young Lives Peru’s Methodological Workshop. The Workshop will take place from April 3 to 5, 2019. Thanks to the Old Dart Foundation, the 20 selected will join the Workshop at no cost. In […]
- Education and Learning
- Employment, Productivity and Innovation
- Rural Development and Agriculture
- Ethnicity, Gender and Citizenship
- Methodologies for Research and Evaluation of Policy and Programmes
- Poverty and Equity
- Natural Resources, Extractive Industries and Social Conflict
- State Reform and Public Institutions
- Health and Nutrition
- Urbanization and Sustainable Cities