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The Tertairy Tilt in Education
The Tertairy Tilt in Education

Research Summary

Efforts such as the UN’s Millennium Campaign intend to address the rising inequality that often accompanies development through the expansion of primary education enrolment. However, since most developing countries tilt their spending towards higher education, which disproportionally benefits elites, increased primary enrolment in countries with higher “tertiary tilts” is actually associated with increased inequality a decade later. As such, well-meaning efforts that focus only on expanding mass education, and not on providing quality primary education, could in fact lead to increased inequality in the developing world.

Aims

  • To facilitate the understanding of the counter-intuitive nature of the research, so as to encourage debate and effective policy-making
  • To make the most of the interactive nature of the project to develop a novel solution for displaying the interaction effects present in the data, which social scientists traditionally display as either tables or graphs that aren’t immediately accessible to lay audiences