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School Accountability, Autonomy, Choice, and the Level of Student Achievement: International Evidence from PISA 2003 (EDU Working Paper No. 13)
22-Jan-2008
Accountability, autonomy, and choice play a leading role in recent school reforms in many countries. This report provides new evidence on whether students perform better in school systems that have such institutional measures in place.
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22-Jan-2008
This study investigates the relationship between educational attainment and political participation in Austria.
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22-Jan-2008
This study discusses relevant international research, with special attention to studies in the Nordic countries, and analyses survey responses by more than 11 000 Norwegian youths aged 13 to 19.
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26-Sep-2007
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23-Aug-2007
This book discusses the concept of capacity-building through cross-border education, emphasising the critical role of quality assurance and trade negotiations. This volume should be of particular interest to both education policy makers and the myriad stakeholders in higher education from developing countries.
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10-Aug-2007
For some aspects of higher education outputs and outcomes, such as the type and number of degrees awarded, the research outputs produced or the labour-market returns to higher education studies, numerous indicators exist at both national and international levels. However, for other aspects, and most notably for the learning outcomes of higher education, available data are much more limited.
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10-Aug-2007
The main purpose of the second meeting of experts was to consider existing approaches to the assessment of higher education learning outcomes and to explore the design of a study to assess the feasibility of pursuing such work in an international comparative context.
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03-Aug-2007
PEB organised a conference entitled “Sustainable Spaces and Places for Learning, Innovation and Knowledge Transfer” in collaboration with the Helsinki University of Technology, Finland. The event was held in May 2008 and identified global and local possibilities to provide quality environments for higher education. Both physical and virtual environments were addressed.
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06-Apr-2007
The Netherlands’ Ministry of Education has announced the winners of its eighth annual School Building Prize, recognising projects in the primary and secondary education sectors. The ministry awards this prize to encourage school boarders to be visionary, creative and professional when building new schools and rebuilding or renovating existing ones. The aim is to provide infrastructure that facilitates the education process as much as possible. The theme of the School Building Prize 2006 was “My school is unique because…”.
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26-Feb-2007
A new study, titled “Growth and Disparity: A Decade of U.S. Public School Construction”, investigates the scale, scope and distribution of school building investment across the United States. While the report illuminates the unprecedented spending and growth on U.S. public school construction over the last decade, it reveals that a tremendous disparity exists in who has benefited from the billions of public dollars invested.
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