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A report of a research project which used a novel approach to improve school standards in India: the training of illiterate mothers to inspect and report on local school quality using a traffic-light scorecard process.

The Academies Commission, sponsored by CfBT, conducted a seven-month 'rapid review' of the academies landscape and this report documents its findings.

The study analyses the work of outstanding inspectors employed by CfBT Education Trust (now named Education Development Trust) in the inspection of maintained schools under contract to Ofsted.

Language Trends 2011 is one in an annual series of reports charting the health of language learning within the secondary curriculum in English secondary schools.

This case study was part of a desk-based rapid review of literature, providing an overview of the teacher remuneration system in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

This report outlines a sustainable method of enhancing the teaching and learning of mathematics in the primary phase of education.

This case study was part of a desk-based rapid review of literature, providing an overview of the teacher remuneration system in Sierra Leone.

The paper gives a high level overview of how impact evaluation can be used in the particular context of government funded privately-provided schools. It also illustrates how more generally impact evaluation can support evidence-based policy-making.

This case study, which was undertaken as a desk-based rapid review of recent publicly available English-language literature (academic and grey), provides an overview of the teacher remuneration system in Afghanistan, with particular attention paid to the institutional systems, or ‘cogs’, which work together to enable teachers to be paid adequately and on time.

This report argues that policy makers need to have a dual focus - not only on increasing national and international resources for teacher salaries, but also on supporting teacher salary systems and the individual parts within them to ensure that resources reach their intended destination.