This paper considers what multilevel modelling approaches to analysing large scale cross-national surveys of education quality can tell us about the capabilities that support primary school children in learning to read. The impact of pupil background characteristics on achievement in reading towards the end of the primary cycle in sub-Saharan…

Changing secondary education curriculum to meet the needs of Sri Lanka entails the replacement of British, colonial education with a less elitist, more vocationally oriented institutions. (JH)