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    Development Asia—Making the Grade?: April–June 2011
    Development Asia—Making the Grade?: April–June 2011
    Development Asia—Making the Grade?: April–June 2011
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    Development Asia—Making the Grade?: April–June 2011

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    Education attacks poverty at its roots, laying the groundwork for achieving all development goals. Teaching children to read and write, for example, not only improves their employment prospects, but also better attunes them to their country's development goals—all of which depend on disseminating important information to be successful. As such, literacy is the foundational cornerstone for development. This edition of Development Asia takes stock of the region's successes and remaining challenges in the education sector. The issue looks at different approaches to reform the educational system to advance national interests, from building elite universities to strengthening vocational programs. A story on the Republic of Korea relates efforts of the state to wean students' overdependence on private tutoring, which is jacking up the cost of education. "Preparing for a Windfall" talks about how Mongolia is consolidating its economic gains by investing in schools—even in the Gobi Desert.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAsian Development Bank
    Release dateJun 1, 2011
    ISBN9789292574369
    Development Asia—Making the Grade?: April–June 2011

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      Development Asia—Making the Grade? - Asian Development Bank

      Critical Thinking…

      "Development Asia… comes across like Time or Newsweek in the good old days. Professional journalists research important subjects and report without being blinkered.

      "The magazine is not a mouthpiece for official ADB policy….

      ADB is not trying to inspire the kind of optimism that is typical of PR publications, but hopes to trigger serious debate.

      Hugh Williamson

      Europe News Editor

      The Financial Times

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      WWW.DEVELOPMENT.ASIA

      © 2011 Asian Development Bank

      ISSN 1998-7528

      ASIAN DEVELOPMENT BANK

      PUBLISHER

      Ann Quon

      MANAGING EDITOR

      Eric Healy

      SENIOR EDITOR

      Floyd Whaley

      EDITORIAL ADVISORS

      Jouko Sarvi

      Shanti Jagannathan

      ASSOCIATE EDITOR

      Maria Liza Solano

      COPY EDITOR

      Caroline Ahmad

      Art Director

      Andy Martin

      Development Asia features development issues important to Asia and the Pacific. It is published four times a year by the Asian Development Bank. The views expressed in this magazine are those of the authors and do not reflect the views and policies of the Asian Development Bank and Haymarket Media Ltd. Use of the term country does not imply any judgment by the authors or the Asian Development Bank and Haymarket Media Ltd. as to the legal or other status of any territorial entity.

      Advertising of any specific commercial product, process, service by trade name, trademark, manufacturer, or otherwise, in this publication does not constitute or imply ADB’s endorsement, recommendation, or favoring of any of the product or the entity thereof.

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      Development Asia

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      Asian Development Bank

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      editor@development.asia

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      Cover photo: Students of Sainshand School

      No. 2 in Mongolia

      Picture credit: Kevin Hamdorf

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      A publication of the Asian Development Bank, designed and distributed by Haymarket Media Ltd.

      PUBLISHER’S NOTE

      Teaching Prosperity

      Education attacks poverty at its roots, laying the groundwork for achieving all development goals. Teaching children to read and write, for example, not only improves their employment prospects, but also better attunes them to their country’s development goals—all of which depend on disseminating important information to be successful. As such, literacy is the foundational cornerstone for development.

      The setting of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in 2000 provided fresh impetus to promoting equal access to education, particularly in Asia and the Pacific. The 2010 status report on the MDGs by the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, Asian Development Bank, and the United Nations Development Programme shows that despite the economic crisis, the region is still on target to meet these goals. The region has reduced gender disparity in primary, secondary, and tertiary education enrollment.

      Increasing enrollment rates, however, is not enough. The dropout rate in the region continues to be high, and the need to improve the quality of education as well as to provide better incentive and support mechanisms for poor families to keep the children in school remain as strong as ever.

      In this edition of Development Asia, we take stock of the region’s successes and remaining challenges in the education sector. We look at different approaches to reform the educational system to advance national interests, from building elite universities to strengthening vocational programs. Our story on the Republic of Korea relates efforts of the state to wean students’ overdependence on private tutoring, which is jacking up the cost of education. In Preparing for a Windfall, we talk about how Mongolia is consolidating its economic gains by investing in schools—even in the Gobi Desert.

      In other stories, we feature physicists Christopher and Maria Victoria Bernido, recipients of the 2010 Ramon Magsaysay Award who are credited with bringing innovative science teaching techniques to one of the poorest communities in the Philippines. We also look at how advances in nanotechnology could benefit or impede development work.

      As with all editions, we hope to present stories that go beyond the textbook explanations and enliven the dialogue on educational issues. Education, in particular, is at the very core of the region’s hopes for development and increased prosperity.

      Please send us comments at editor@development.asia.

      Class dismissed!

      Ann Quon

      Publisher

      CONTENTS

      YEAR IV, NUMBER X, APRIL-JUNE 2011

      06 WAITING FOR TEST RESULTS

      FOCUS

      EDUCATION IN ASIA

      19 INVESTING IN KOREA’S FUTURE

      34 CALLING FOR AID REFORM

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