SCHOOL LEADERSHIP TRAINING IN MALAWI PODCAST

EPISODE FIFTEEN

Can improvements to school leadership improve student progression and test scores, even in a low-income context? Malawi's primary schools struggle to provide students with quality education. This project tested a custom-designed multi-phase school leadership training programme to try to improve the capacity of school leaders to conduct key activities and found substantial impacts on learning outcomes at a low cost.

Project location: Malawi Read the transcript Published 03 January 2025

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Donna Harris

Director of Studies in Political Economy

University of Oxford

Salman Asim

Senior Economist
World Bank

Ravinder Casley Gera

Education Specialist
World Bank

Grace Milner

Director of Basic Education
Ministry of Education, Malawi

CSAE Working Paper

Does effective school leadership improve student progression and test scores? Evidence from a field experiment in Malawi

Salman Asim, Ravinder Casley Gera, Donna Harris, and Stefan Dercon

CSAE Working Paper Series, 06 August 2024

Research Project Webpage

Aim, intervention details, and results for the project.

SCHOOL LEADERSHIP TRAINING IN MALAWI PODCAST