Virtual Campus

Projections and simulation models

Date: 16 April to 15 June 2012 (9 weeks)
Registration deadline: 27 February 2012

This course is designed to develop participants’ skills on methods and projection techniques used in education sector planning, including enrolment projections and projections of human, material and financial resources.

The course will address the following topics:

• clarification of important concepts and basic projection
  methods;
• the contribution of projections and simulations in the
  development of an education plan and related policy
  dialogue process;
• methods and techniques to project enrolments, human,
  material and financial resources;
• guidance in developing a simulation model using
  spreadsheets (Excel), taking participants through the
  different steps in the process.

Participants’ profiles:

Planning staff from ministries of education and from sub-national entities involved in education planning (regions, provinces, governorates, etc.) and staff of training institutions in education planning.

Please note: Participants of this course should have at least three years of experience in plan preparation obtained through participation in the country’s other long-term or medium-term education sector plan.

Countries: Worldwide
Language: English

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