Research Findings on SABER and Basic Education in Yemen Presented at 2014 CIES Conference in Canada

From March 10 to March 15, the 2014 Annual Conference of the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) was held in Toronto, Canada. Under the theme of “Revisioning Education for All,” JICA researchers made presentations on the results of two respective studies in aid strategies, one of four research areas that JICA-RI has engaged in.

On March 12, Yuki made a presentation entitled “Governance quality at school and meso levels of policy implementation: the case of Burkina Faso” in the “School Autonomy and Accountability” session. She gave an interim report on the survey of schools and meso-level organizations—department offices and village offices—conducted in Burkina Faso. Yuki introduced: the correlation between the degree of activities by school management committees and the general administrative capability of meso-level organizations; and the relationship between the qualities of learning environments such as textbook dispatching as well as the hours of supplementary lesson, and students’ achievement in graduation examinations. The audience, in light of the situations in other countries, asked questions on the influence of school principals’ leadership on the level of authority transferred to schools, and on the relationship between existing parents’ associations and school management committees established based on government policies.