Event type:

In person

Date & time:

30 Nov 2021, 12:30 – 14:00

Fixing donuts: Addressing the learning crisis from the inside

In this webinar, Professor Lant Pritchett will talk about the Research on Improving Systems of Education (RISE) programme - a global research endeavour that seeks to understand how education systems in developing countries can overcome the learning crisis.

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Fixing donuts: Addressing the learning crisis from the inside

30 Nov 2021, 12:30 – 14:00

Professor Lant Pritchett

Research Director of RISE (Research on Improving Systems of Education)

Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford

Professor Pritchett is a development economist from Idaho. He graduated from MIT with a PhD in Economics in 1988. He worked with the World Bank from 1988 to 2007, living in Indonesia 1998-2000 and India 2004-2007. He taught at the Harvard Kennedy School from 2000 to 2018. Lant has published over a hundred books, journal articles, working papers with over fifty different co-authors and has over 38,000 citations on development topics from education to economic growth to state capability to labour mobility (and more).

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Pre-booking essential

Cost

Free

Open to

All

Availability

Yes

Organiser

Caine Rolleston

c.rolleston@ucl.ac.uk