The Problem with Teachers
Why reforms to the quality of basic education in Bangladesh are so hard to carry through, read through the country's political settlement.
Working paper · Education · 2017
- 2017
- published by ESID, University of Manchester
- 86
- ESID working paper number
- 5
- authors
About this work
The Problem with Teachers: The Political Settlement and Education Quality Reforms in Bangladesh is ESID Working Paper No. 86, published in 2017 by the Effective States and Inclusive Development Research Centre at the University of Manchester's Global Development Institute. The research was carried out in partnership with ESID during my years at PPRC, and it identifies the structural governance barriers that stand in the way of implementing reform.
What it covers
- The political settlement in Bangladesh, and what it means for basic education.
- Reforms aimed at the quality of education, and the governance barriers to implementing them.
Publication details
- Hossain, Naomi, Mirza Hasan, Md Ashikur Rahman, Sajidul Islam, and Khondokar Shakhawat Ali. The Problem with Teachers: The Political Settlement and Education Quality Reforms in Bangladesh. ESID Working Paper No. 86, University of Manchester, 2017.
- A companion ESID research paper, The Political Settlement and Basic Education Quality Reforms in Bangladesh, appeared the same year.
- The Bangladesh study is also a chapter in The Politics of Education in Developing Countries: From Schooling to Learning, edited by Sam Hickey and Naomi Hossain (Oxford University Press, 2019) — the volume linked from this page.
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