Madrasah make a significant contribution to meeting district enrollment standards and Human Development Index targets. They also make a significant contribution to meeting district Minimum Service Standards. Madrasah are known to receive insufficient funding to carry out quality education, and in the case of private madrasah, are significantly under-funded in comparison with state schools. Dece ...

Research analyzing the link between dropout and the literacy skills of 4,000 students in the United States found that students who are unable to read proficiently by the end of the third grade are four times more likely to leave school without a diploma than proficient readers. Research also suggests that poor readers are more likely to experience behavioural and social problems in subsequent grades ...

The development objectives of the support to Free Basic Education Strategy Development are to contribute towards achieving medium- to long-term social and economic national development goals through the development of effective policies, strategies, and programs for implementation of Free Basic Education in Indonesia.

Indonesia faces a fundamental challenge: getting teachers to be present in school. For quality teaching to exist in the classroom, teachers must first and foremost be present. The study builds on earlier work on teacher absence in Indonesia conducted in 2003 and 2008. The study also cites previousanalysis of change over time in the absence rate and the impact of selected policies and programs.

Indonesia has made impressive improvements in education over the last decade and is on track to meeting Millennium Development Goals 2 and 3 (universal primary education and gender parity). The country has a national net primary (years 1 to 6) enrolment rate of 94.7 percent with equal enrolment for girls and boys.1 GOI recognises that it has not yet achieved its national ‘Education for All’ ...