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Is Good Governance important predictor of education quality?

Education is an important issue in the growth and development processes and has the highest priority in the majority of national development strategies. However, education reforms, education quality and education sector in general is highly effected by the institutional and legislative framework and practices. The main aim of the paper is to investigate the effect of country's governance practices on education quality in the case of selected European Union (EU) member states for the period 2003 - 2018. Specifically, the paper explores to what extent good governance, as defined by the World Bank in the Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI), is predictor of education quality. The analysis of education in this paper uses various World Bank's education indicators (government expenditure per student and enrollment ratios for primary, secondary and tertiary levels and research and development expenditures) and a set of socio – economic control variables such as GDP pc and country's population. The analysis focuses on the use of panel data model for selected EU states, including correlation analysis to examine the assumed relationships among variables of interest. Panel data analysis is conducted in order to determine which dimensions of good governance are a significant predictor of education quality when controlling for country's socioeconomic factors. Results show different effects of these dimensions at different education levels. Voice and accountability (VA) and Rule of law (RL) do not have significant effect on any of analyzed education indicators, while Government effectiveness (GE) has a statistically significant (and dominantly positive) effect on five out of eight analyzed indicators of education. By providing some insight for the existing (limited) knowledge base in the understanding of the relationship between governance practices and education quality, this study seeks to affirm the concept of good governance as an important predictor of education.

governance ; education ; quality ; EU

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