Education and development

This International Literacy Day, we’re using research in the Asia-Pacific region to highlight the importance of language of instruction to the education outcomes of children.

ACER is providing long-term support to governments in the Pacific Islands to improve teaching quality.

A new interactive dashboard aims to increase awareness of tertiary education scholarships distribution in the Pacific and improve SDG 4.b monitoring.

A multi-year, multi-country study in the Indo-Pacific region has identified strategies that can help shape future teacher professional development initiatives.

New study analysing socio-cultural factors confirms that a family’s socio-economic status and parental attitudes towards homework have direct positive effects on reading literacy of primary school students in Southeast Asia.

New ACER research has found that teacher professional learning has positively impacted teaching quality and student engagement in Vanuatu.