Education Reform Support Volume Three: A Framework for Making It Happen

Education Reform Support Volume Three aims to design a framework that will allow policy makers to successfully design and implement educational reforms with the aim to enhance the quality of education within developing countries. The study highlights the three fundamental steps involves in the process, the first being the need to develop an infrastructure that allows capacity building within country and therefore creates a learning-driven culture. The second step entails the need to address the hurdles within successful implementation of educational reforms. The authors argue that various tools and techniques of ERS can allow the country to counter challenges such as political pressures, bureaucracy, and lack of educational awareness or administrative and managerial limitations within the system. The third aspect of ERS concerns the need to identify reforms that can bring about the desired results and identification of reforms  can primarily be done through experimentation, risk analysis and innovation process.

The paper highlights that the process of ERS is initiated through the introduction of the concept of adopting a systematic approach towards educational reforms and through various means that create a demand for change within the sector. The researchers conclude that the three aspects of making it happen present the need to design certain tools and techniques for assistance and this aspect is explored within the next volume of the series.