Education Research Gender, Education and Development - A Partially Annotated and Selective Bibliography

The second part of the report focuses on strategies to promote the education of both
girls and women. It examines the policy options such as expanding educational
provision and reducing the direct and indirect costs of schooling, improving girls' health
and nutrition and recruiting more female teachers. There is a survey of efforts made to
reduce direct costs through various scholarship programmes. Chapter 7 examines
various types of government and donor intervention and their outcomes.

The final chapter is a succinct and useful list of recommendations. Swainson first
suggests research priorities: clearly focussed empirical research is needed so that efforts
to improve girls' educational opportunities can be based on evidence. She suggests
twelve areas where research is needed such as the impact of female teachers, patterns of
attendance, etc. Policy recommendations are divided into two areas: those which are
school-based and those which are community based. Both researchers and policy-
makers (whether government or NGO) will find useful suggestions on these lists.

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