Program Agenda

Date, Time, Event, and Location

Sunday, August 26 Venue: Daxuetang Hall No.1, The Lake-view Hotel, PKU

Day 1: Monday, August 27 Venue: No.2 Meeting Room, Peking University Overseas Exchange Center

Day 2: Tuesday, August 28, No.2 Meeting Room, Peking University Overseas Exchange Center

Day 3: Wednesday, August 29

Day 4: Thursday, August 30, No.2 Meeting Room, Peking University Overseas Exchange Center

Day 5: Friday, August 31, 112 Meeting Room, Graduate School of Education, PKU

Reading Materials

1. World Bank, 2018.  World Development Report 2018. Learning to Realize Education’s Promise. Overview.
2. Chapter 4. To take learning seriously, start by measuring it.
3. Chapter 9 Education systems are misaligned with learning (http://www.worldbank.org/en/publication/wdr2018)
4. Montenegro, Claudio E. & Patrinos, Harry Anthony. 2014. Comparable estimates of returns to schooling around the world. World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 7020 (https://ideas.repec.org/p/wbk/wbrwps/7020.html)
5. Spotlight 1: The biology of learning. Spotlight 2: Poverty hinders biological development and undermines learning. Chapter 3 The Many faces of learning. Chapter 5 There is no learning without prepared, motivated learners.  (http://www.worldbank.org/en/publication/wdr2018)
6. World Bank 2013. Early childhood education in Yunnan: challenges and opportunities (https://hubs.worldbank.org/docs/ImageBank/Pages/DocProfile.aspx?nodeid=20116721).
7. Patrinos, Harry Anthony, Velez, Eduardo & Wang, Catherine Yan, 2013.  A Framework for Education Systems Reform and Planning for Quality (http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/777581468163445437/Framework-for-the-reform-of-education-systems-and-planning-for-quality)  It also appeared in 2013 in Peking University Education Review, Vol. 11, No. 3. In Chinese.
8. Patrinos, Harry Anthony, F. Barrera-Osorio and Guaqueta. 2009. The Role and Impact of Public-Private Partnerships in Education. World Bank, Washington, DC. (https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/bitstream/handle/10986/2612/479490PUB0Role101OFFICIAL0USE0ONLY1.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y)
9. World Bank, 2018. Growing Smarter: Learning and Growth in East Asia and the Pacific. Chapter 5. Developing Skilled Teachers and Supporting Effective Teaching(http://www.worldbank.org/en/publication/wdr2018).
10. Chapter 6. Teacher skills and motivation both matter (though many systems act like they don’t).
11. (http://www.worldbank.org/en/region/eap/publication/growing-smarter-learning-equitable-development-in-east-asia-pacific)
12. World Bank, 2012.  Jobs - World Development Report 2013, Chapter 5. (https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/11843).
13. Xuedong Ding, 2006. The Development of Compulsory Education Finance in Rural China. Chinese Education & Society, 41(1):51-57.
14. Xuehui An, 2018. Teacher Salaries and the Shortage of High-Quality Teachers in China’s Rural Primary and Secondary Schools. Chinese Education & Society, 103-116.
15. Avvisati, F, 2018. In which countries and schools do disadvantaged students succeed?, PISA in Focus, No. 80, OECD Publishing, Paris, https://doi.org/10.1787/66e037e8-en.
16. Xue Han, 2012. Big moves to improve the quality of teacher education in China, On the Horizon, Vol. 20 Issue: 4, pp.324-335, https://doi.org/10.1108/10748121211272461
17. Leslie W. Grant, James H. Stronge, Xianxuan Xu, 2013. A Cross-cultural Comparative Study of Teacher Effectiveness: Analyses of Award-winning Teachers in the United States and China. Educational Assessment Evaluation & Accountability, 251-276.
18. Luis Crouch, 2003. School Fees, Voluntary Contributions and Educational Development: A possible Position.
19. Li Han, Mingxing Liu, Xuehui An, 2014. Centralized Development and Teacher Incentives: Evidence from Reforms in Rural China. https://igov.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/2017-06/centralized_deployment.pdf
20. Xiaofei Qi & Edward C. Melhuish, 2017. Early childhood education and care in China: history, current trends and challenges, Early Years, 37:3, 268-284, DOI:10.1080/09575146.2016.1236780 (https://doi.org/10.1080/09575146.2016.1236780)
21. Rong Wang, Mingxing Liu. Institutional and Fiscal Arrangements for Primary and Junior Secondary Education in China
22. Xiaobo Lü, Mingxing Liu, 2018. The Logic of De Facto Power and Local Education Spending: Evidence from China. The Journal of Federalism. http://www.xiaobolu.com/researchpapers/Publius_De_facto_Power_Lu_Liu_2018.pdf
23. Mingxing Liu, Juan Wang, Ran Tao, Rachel Murphy. The Political Economy of Earmarked Transfers in a State-Designated Poor County in Western China: Central Policies and Local Responses
24. Mingxing Liu, Victor Shih, Dong Zhang. The Fall of the Old Guards: Explaining Decentralization in China. http://gps.ucsd.edu/_files/faculty/shih/Shih_Explaining%20Credible%20Decentralization_with_names.pdf
25. Mingxing, Liu, Rachel Murphy, Ran Tao, Xuehui An. 2009. Education Management and Performance after Rural Education Finance Reform: Evidence from Western China? International Journal of Educational Development. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijedudev.2009.04.013
26. Xiaobo Lü, Mingxing Liu, Feiyue Li, 2018, Policy Coalition Building in an Authoritarian Legislature: Evidence from China’s National Assemblies (1983-2007). http://cpd.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Edu_Policy_Legislative_Behavior_LLL_2016_full.pdf
27. Recommendation Concerning Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) (UNESCO). 2015.  http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID=49355&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
28. D. Ashton, F. Green, J. Sung & D. James, 2002, The Evolution of Education and Training Strategies in Singapore, Taiwan and S. Korea: a development model of skill formation. Journal of Education & Work, 5-30.

Introduction of Participants

	Semih Aktekin General Director of Teacher Training and Development Directorate in the Ministry of National Education in Turkey He ever worked as lecturer in Faculty of Education of Karadeniz Technology University in Turkey from 2004 to 2014. He holds a M.A and EdD. in Faculty of Education from Nottingham University, and a B.A. in Pol.Sci & Public Adm from Ankara University.
	MD. Ramjan Ali Principal of Technical Teachers Training College which is only Technical Teachers Training Institute in Bangladesh. He works in the Directorate of Technical Education, Technical and Madrasah Education Division and Ministry of Education. He has been working in different Technical Institutions in Bangladesh about 29 years in different positions. He holds a M.Sc. in EEE from BUET.
	TM Asaduzzaman Operations Analyst of Education division in the World Bank He leads Secondary Education and ICT projects in Bangladesh. His previous academic background is in finance PFM and currently is pursing Doctorate of Education from a university in the United States.
	Bastari Bastari The Head of Center for Data and Statistics on Education and Culture, Ministry of Education and Culture, Indonesia His main field is on statistics, educational measurement and research.
	Suprapto Budinugroho Head of Subdirectorate in the Directorate of Education and Religlous Affairs, Ministry of Planning and National Development Planning Agency (Bappenas), Indonesia
	Zhixin CHEN Vice President, Business School, Ningxia Vocational and Technical College Professor, deputy dean of business school of Ningxia polytechnic, director of China (Ningxia) modern logistics public training center. senior visiting scholar of the development research center of the state council, executive director and special research fellow of China logistics association. Secretary general of Ningxia logistics vocational education group, secretary general of Ningxia logistics education teaching steering committee; who have been engaged in the research of vocational education for a long time and was selected as an outstanding teacher of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region in 2015 and the top-notch personnel of Ningxia youth in 2016.
	Plamen Dantchev Senior Education Specialist at the World Bank (GED02 EAP EDUCATION GP) Plamen is responsible for the education portfolio of the Bank in Lao PDR. Plamen has over 20 years of experience in education development programs across countries in Europe and South East Asia. He holds a Master's degree in Economics.
	Nowaz Ali Dr M Shah Member of UGC of Bangladesh Professor Dr. M. Shah Nowaz Ali works in University Grants Commission of Bangladesh. He joined the Department of Management of University of Rajshahi in 1976. He has appointed as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Rajshahi Krishi Unnayan Bank for two term tenure. Presently he is working as a member of UGC of Bangladesh.
	Ling FENG Vice President of Huamin Charity Foundation Research Institute More recently she has also been working as a Managing Secretary-in-General in Beijing Yide Social Work Development Center supporting their general think-tank management and research work planning.  She has hands-on experience with the school system in China.  In the education field, she has conducted and completed major philanthropy programs’ evaluation in different students’ group and has impressive insights.  Ling holds a B.A. in Economics and Mphil in Social Policy from Nankai University.
	Jasmina Havranek Director of Croatian accreditation agency ASHE (since 2005) Prof. Jasmina tenured full professor at University of Zagreb (field of biotechnology) and a dean of Faculty of Agriculture (2001-2006).  She worked at universities in Denmark, Finland, USA, Italy and Greece. She was ever Chair of National Council for Higher Education (2005).
	Dean HE Assistant Teaching Professor and Faculty Lead, Northeastern University An avid researcher in the field of applied microeconomics. He worked with the Brookings Institution and San Francisco Unified School District (2014 Education Pioneers Graduate Fellow) before coming back to teach at Northeastern. He was a research scholar at Department of Economics Northeastern University. Dean has a broad range of interest in economics development in developing and developed countries, economics of education, college admissions policy and college graduates earning gap. Dean holds a graduate degree from Columbia University. He currently serves as the Lead Faculty for the Master of Science in Commerce and Economic Development program.
	Munira Islam Assistant District Primary Education Officer in Directorate of primary education and the Ministry of Primary and Mass Education in Bangladesh She completed B.S.S (hons) and M.S.S from University of Dhaka in International Relations. She joined government service in 2000 as an Upozila/Thana Education officer. She ever served at different parts of Bangladesh. She currently posts at Directorate of Primary education, Bangladesh where her main task is administrative.
	Nasrin Jahan Deputy Secretary in the Ministry of Primary and Mass Education in the People's Republic of Bangladesh She holds a M.A in Begali Literature. She works in the Ministry of Primary and Mass Education as a Deputy Secretary after serving as Assistant Commissioner (Land) and UNO. She has some good expertise to identify the major issues related to development in the field of Education.
	Anh Vinh Le Vice Director General in the Vietnam National Institute of Educational Sciences, and the Ministry of Education and Training Assoc. Prof. Vinh is Vice Director General of VNIES. Vinh got his PhD in Mathematics at Harvard University in 2010. Before joining VNIES, he held several positions at University of Education (VNU) including Dean of Faculty, Director of Research Center and Principal of High School.
	Fengqin LIU Director of Beijing Chaoyang District Education Development Research Center She has involved in education work since getting Master degree of history from Peking University in 1990 for 28 years. She has taken charge of the research and drawing up of The Thirteenth Five-year Plan on Beijing Chaoyang Education Development, and the editing of the Research Report on Beijing Chaoyang Education Development successfully.
	Mengying LI High school teacher of Chaoyang Future School affiliated to Peking University She graduated from Beijing Foreign Studies University with a master degree of Teaching Chinese as Second Language. She has worked for Shenzhen Mingde Experimental School as general teacher, and Barcelona Confucius Institute as Chinese Teacher. Mainly focusing on innovation education, project-based learning, Chinese reading curricular system and commonwealth education. She volunteered for Tzu Chi Foundation, Mother Teresa of Calcutta Center and USA South Woods Camp.
	Janet Lopoz Executive Director, Ministry of Education and Sports, Mindanao Development Authority, Career Executive Service Officer (CESO) Rank I, Philippines She holds a Ph.D. in Organizational Development Administration and a M.A.  in Business Administration certificated on Strategic Business Economics Program and a B. A. in Economics.
	Shiro Nakata Senior Education Economist of Education Global Practice, World Bank He currently engaged in higher education and skills operations in Bangladesh.
	Riming NIE Assistant Dean and researcher of Shanghai Institute of Finance and Law He is a Ph.D. candidate in economics at Fudan University. Nie mainly focuses on urban economics, education, fiscal and tax, etc., Nie have published columns in Caijing magazine, Caixin, FT Chinese, The Paper.cn, The Beijing News, etc. Nie is the author of Running to Urban: Finding the Impetus for Economic Growth.
	Dara Phakonekham Acting Director General, Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport, Lao PDR She is responsible for all tasks concerning to budget. She leads finance department to support the education sector nationwide.
	Mokhlesur Rahman Senior Operations Officer in Education GP, World Bank. He has 20 years of experience on basic, skills and tertiary education, and research and innovation. He is recognized for strong team leadership, strategic thinking, and client orientation and ability to develop and implement innovative solutions in complex or fragile political and operational environments.
	Tashmina Rahman Research Analyst in the Education Global Practice of the World Bank Her work involves project design, implementation support and research in areas of higher education and skills training. She holds a Master's in Development Studies from the University of Manchester and a Master's in Economics from the University of Dhaka.
	Harun-or Rashid Vice-Chancellor in the Administration of National University in Bangladesh, Professor of Political Science of University of Dhaka Dr. Rashid obtained PhD from University of London and did post-doctoral research in UK, Sweden, Japan. He has several books and articles. He is in teaching and research for 40 years.
	Chunrong REN Researcher and Deputy Director, China Academy of Educational Sciences She serves in the Institute of Educational Inspection and Evaluation, National Institute of Education Sciences. Her research interests include rural education, educational measurement and evaluation. She currently hosted projects which are related to the development of small-scale rural schools, rural students' nutritional improvement program, and the impact of social stratification on education.
	Sar Sarin  Head of Education Quality Assurance Office, Ministry of Education and Sports, Cambodia He holds a MBA from Build Bright University in Cambodia. He has involved in large-scale assessments for seven years when he manages and leads the technical team to implement the assessment projects.
	Svetlana Sirmbard Rector of ADAM University/BAFE in Kyrgyzstan, National Expert on reformation of higher education system of KR She has considerable experience as education expert on strategic development in the field of vocational and higher education in the Education - Frunze Polytechnic Institute.
	Mithong Souvanvixay Director General of Department of Early Childhood Education belong to the Ministry of Education and Sports Lao PDR
	Zhong SUN Head of Education Course, Capital Normal University Zhong Sun is an Associate Professor in College of Information Engineering at Capital Normal University. She graduated from School of Educational Technology in Beijing Normal University. Her research interests are at technology assistant teacher professional development, blended learning, and learning analysis. She was funded by MOE of China of the project Data-driven model construction and scale application for rural teachers' professional development on the mobile and internet environments. One of her projects, Cloud bridge academy: a platform of rural teachers and college student teachers' reciprocal professional growth won the top 10 award of the national education innovation achievement fair in 2017. She has published more than 60 papers in academic journals both in and out of China.
	Al Zayed Syed Rashed Senior Economist, Education Global Practice, World Bank, the Bangladesh Education Team He leads Education Research Works and manages Primary Education SWAP and Out-of-School Children project. He also serves as Education foal person for Bhutan.
	Xueli TANG Policy Research Director of TAL She analyses the macro-policy and education policy, always communicates with government officer of policy planning and making, as well as theoretical researchers. She has worked in education industry for many years, and has rich experience and deep understanding of education products, technologies and markets.
	An Thi My Tran Senior Education Specialist, World Bank She manages basic and higher education operations in Vietnam.
	Win Tun Director General, Department of Education Research of Planning and Training, Ministry of Education, Myanmar He holds a Ph.D. in Statistics and carries out the education researches. He redesigns the basic education curriculum and teacher training on the new basic education curriculum.
	Yibiao WANG The World Bank Office of the Guangdong Provincial Department of Education, the head of the Integrated Management Team (secondary senior teacher)
	Zaw Win Director General (Acting) at the Department of Alternative Education, Ministry of Education,Myanmar  He is responsible for Non-formal Education. He holds a PhD in Geology from Japan.
	Shulan XIANG Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps Second Middle School Teacher Shulan is an expert of the National Science Education Expert Group, National Top Ten Science and Technology Counselor, comprehensive Practice Super Teacher, graduate Instructor of Xinjiang Normal University, NGO, a representative of National Green Teacher. After working in the front line for more than 30 years, Shulan has led students to receive hundreds of domestic and international scientific and technological innovation awards. She participated in the preparation of two high school textbooks. She also created a method of exploring experiential practice.
	Fan YANG Deputy Director of Yunnan Academy of Educational Sciences She is a Pre-school Educational Researcher and Senior Teacher of the Yunnan Provincial Institute of Education Sciences, who has participated in the development and research of the 13th Five-Year Plan of Yunnan Education, and the development & research of the training quality assessment program of the National Training Program for Teachers of Primary and Middle Schools project in Yunnan Province. She is currently a provincial-level professional of the Yunnan Early Childhood Education Innovation Project with World Bank Loan of Yunnan Province.
	Shuhan YANG Assistant Professor, School of Education and Management, Yunnan Normal University Dr. Shuhan Yang is a core member of Yunnan Education 13th Five Years Plan drafting group, and the consultant of Loans from International Financial Organization and Foreign Government Loan Project Experts Group in Yunnan Provincial Education Department. Her research interest is educational policy, teacher education, ethnic and multicultural education.
	Ra Yin Deputy Director, Monitoring and Evaluation, Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport In 2000, he served as an inspection officer for inspecting Higher Education. In 2015, he served as a Deputy Director for supervising monitoring and evaluation of Projects support Education Policy and Education Strategic Plan implementation. He holds a Master Degree in SEN in UK and a B.Ed. from Royal University of Phnom Penh (RUPP).
	Liqiong ZENG Yunnan Provincial Department of Education Foreign Capital Loan Office World Bank Pre-school Project Provincial Expert She serves as an expert at the United Nations Children's fund, the World Bank, the China Development Research Foundation, the Beijing Leping public welfare fund and other Yunnan preschool education projects. She is also a deputy director of the preschool Office of the Yunnan Provincial Education Office, a supervision expert of the primary and secondary school of the Yunnan provincial government, and a governor of the Kunming municipal government.
	Hui ZHANG Co-founder of Beijing Audio and Video Dream Social Work Office She has rich experience in project management as the college ambassador in JA China, online educational product design for a startup company. Now, she is responsible for the overall management of two main projects in Art Dream, College Student Volunteer Project and Rural Teacher Project, including training design, monitoring and project evaluation.
	Yu ZHANG Deputy Director of the ECE Project Office with World Bank Loan of the Foreign Capital Utilization Office of Yunnan Provincial Department of Education She has been engaged in the management of the education projects with loans of international financial organizations and foreign governments in Yunnan Province in 2018, she won the first education grant project of Asian Development Bank in Yunnan, which study on the reform of application-oriented talents in local undergraduate colleges and universities under the background of transformation and development. She published the Exploration and Research on Early Childhood Education Mode in Minority Areas of Western Yunnan. She got a Master of Educational Studies at University of Adelaide in Australia.

Venue: The Lake-View Hotel, Peking University

The deadline for nomination and registration is July 12, 2018. Please send your nominations to Ning Fu from the World Bank and Zhen Huang from Peking University. Their contact information is as below:

Contact Information:

Zhen Huang (Peking University)

　　Tel: 010-6275-3628, 138-1193-2648

　　Email: zhhuang##@##ciefr.pku.edu.cn

Ning Fu (World Bank) 

　　Tel: 86-010-58617659, 86-18515363395

　　Email: nfu##@##worldbank.org