Cameroon - Governance and Management in the Education Sector

This report aims to analyze the extent to which current governance and management practices contribute to explaining differences in education outcomes, focusing on three regions of Cameroon: the Littoral, Far North, and North West. The three regions chosen for this study differ considerably in terms of education performance, with the Far North being the weakest at one end of the spectrum, and the Littoral region being one of the best at the other end. The report explores the connections between governance and educational outcomes in these three regions, using a qualitative approach. In-depth interviews with government officials and school personnel, observations of school operations, and reviews of documents were used to analyze governance and accountability in both basic and secondary education. Such approach is inductive, context sensitive, and naturalistic, based on an iterative process of knowledge generation. The analytical framework for the study consists of two broad areas, public expenditure and system functioning. Under public expenditure, the study examines governance and accountability practices relating to upstream financial decision making and execution. System functioning covers activities that must take place consistently over the school year and includes: teachers (recruitment, deployment and transfers, and remuneration), schools (monitoring of teacher performance, administration, and school performance), and extra-government entities. In addition, the report reviews contribution of the community (the citizens and students who are the beneficiary) and the extent to which they are able to demand acceptable standards of service delivery in education is examined. The section on extra-government entities briefly looks at their roles and contributions in bringing about good governance.

Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	World Bank
Format:	Other Education Study biblioteca
Language:	English en_US
Published:	Washington, DC 2012-03
Subjects:	ACHIEVEMENT, AGE GROUPS, AVERAGE PUPIL-TEACHER RATIO, BASIC EDUCATION, BASIC EDUCATION % BUDGET, BASIC EDUCATION BUDGET, BILINGUALISM, CAREER, CAREER PATHS, CLASS SIZES, CLASSROOM, CLASSROOM CONSTRUCTION, CLASSROOMS, COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION, COMMUNITY SCHOOLS, COMMUNITY TEACHERS, COMPLETION RATES, CONSTRUCTION OF SCHOOLS, DECENTRALIZATION, DECISION MAKING, DEGREES, DIDACTIC MATERIAL, EARLY GRADES, EDUCATION ADMINISTRATION, EDUCATION BUDGET, EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT, EDUCATION FOR ALL, EDUCATION MANAGERS, EDUCATION OFFICIALS, EDUCATION OUTCOMES, EDUCATION QUALITY, EDUCATION SECTOR, EDUCATION STATISTICS, EDUCATION SYSTEM, EDUCATION SYSTEMS, EDUCATION TEACHERS, EDUCATIONAL ADMINISTRATION, EDUCATIONAL GOALS, EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION, EDUCATIONAL MANAGEMENT, EDUCATIONAL OUTCOMES, EDUCATIONAL PERFORMANCE, EDUCATIONAL PROCESSES, EFFECTIVE EDUCATION, ENROLMENTS, ENTRANCE EXAM, ETHNIC GROUPS, EXAMINATION FEES, EXPENDITURES, GENERAL SECONDARY EDUCATION, GER, GIRLS, GRADE REPETITION, GROSS ENROLLMENT, GROSS ENROLLMENT RATE, GROSS ENROLLMENT RATES, HEAD TEACHER, HEAD TEACHERS, HIGH SCHOOL, HIGHER EDUCATION, HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS, HUMAN DEVELOPMENT, HUMAN RESOURCES, INSTRUCTION, INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS, INTERVENTIONS, JOB MARKET, KNOWLEDGE GENERATION, LEADERSHIP, LEARNING, LEARNING LEVELS, LEVEL OF EDUCATION, LIBRARIES, LIBRARY BOOKS, LOCAL PUBLISHERS, MANUALS, MATHEMATICS, MATHEMATICS TEXTBOOKS, MOTIVATION OF TEACHERS, NER, NET ENROLLMENT, NET ENROLLMENT RATE, NUMBER OF SCHOOLS, NUMBER OF STUDENTS, NUMBER OF TEACHERS, PEDAGOGICAL RESOURCES, PEDAGOGY, POST-PRIMARY EDUCATION, PRIMARY COMPLETION, PRIMARY COMPLETION RATE, PRIMARY EDUCATION, PRIMARY SCHOOLS, PRIMARY TEACHER, PRIMARY TEACHERS, PRINCIPALS, PRINTING, PRINTING PRESS, PUBLIC EXPENDITURE, PUBLIC EXPENDITURE ON EDUCATION, PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS, PUBLIC SCHOOLS, PUPIL EXPENDITURE, PUPIL-TEACHER RATIO, PUPIL-TEACHER RATIOS, PUPILS, QUALIFIED PERSONNEL, QUALITY IMPROVEMENT IN EDUCATION, QUALITY OF EDUCATION, READING, READING MATERIAL, RECRUITMENT OF TEACHERS, REGIONAL EDUCATION, REGULAR TEACHERS, REPETITION RATE, RESEARCH METHODS, SCHOOL ACTIVITIES, SCHOOL CONSTRUCTION, SCHOOL CONTEXTS, SCHOOL COUNCIL, SCHOOL COUNCILS, SCHOOL EDUCATION, SCHOOL ENROLLMENT, SCHOOL FEES, SCHOOL HEAD, SCHOOL HEADS, SCHOOL HEALTH, SCHOOL LEVEL, SCHOOL LEVELS, SCHOOL OFFICIALS, SCHOOL OPERATIONS, SCHOOL PERFORMANCE, SCHOOL PERSONNEL, SCHOOL PROJECTS, SCHOOL SUPPLIES, SCHOOL SYSTEM, SCHOOL TEACHERS, SCHOOL YEAR, SCIENCE TEXTBOOKS, SECONDARY EDUCATION, SECONDARY SCHOOL, SECONDARY SCHOOL TEACHERS, SECONDARY SCHOOLS, SHORTAGE OF TEXTBOOKS, SPORTS, STUDENT ATTENDANCE, STUDENT LEARNING, TEACHER, TEACHER DEPLOYMENT, TEACHER MANAGEMENT, TEACHER ORGANIZATIONS, TEACHER PERFORMANCE, TEACHER QUALITY, TEACHER RECRUITMENT, TEACHER REQUIREMENTS, TEACHER SALARIES, TEACHER SHORTAGES, TEACHER UNIONS, TEACHER WORKFORCE, TEACHERS, TEACHING, TEACHING POSTS, TEXTBOOK, TEXTBOOK INDUSTRY, TEXTBOOK PROCUREMENT, TEXTBOOK PRODUCTION, TEXTBOOKS, TRANSFER OF TEACHERS, UNIVERSAL BASIC EDUCATION, UNIVERSAL EDUCATION, VISITS TO SCHOOLS, VOCATIONAL SCHOOLS,
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2012/03/16982910/cameroon-governance-management-education-sector http://hdl.handle.net/10986/12262
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