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09-Sep-2008
Education at a Glance 2008 shows that with more and more high-school graduates going on to university, governments face tough decisions on funding and quality standards to ensure that their education systems respond adequately to booming demand for degrees.
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Improving school leadership a priority for national education policies, says OECD
28-Aug-2008
Good teachers are the number one factor for excellence in student achievement but next comes high-quality leadership. Governments must do more to recruit and train the best people to run schools, according to a new OECD publication - Improving School Leadership.
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15-May-2008
The New York Times quotes the OECD publication Keeping Schools Safe in Earthquakes, which concludes that “schools ‘routinely’ collapsed in earthquakes around the world because of avoidable design or construction errors, or because existing laws and building codes were not enforced”. A review of OECD countries’ implementation of the Recommendation Concerning Guidelines on Earthquake Safety in Schools, featured in the report and approved by OECD Council in 2005, is under way.
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07-May-2008
The reports: Improving School Leadership: Policy and Practice; and Improving School Leadership: Case Studies and Concepts for Systemic Action, provide information and analysis to help policy makers formulate and implement school leadership policies leading to improved teaching and learning. Drawing on related literature and PISA data, the publications are based on country background reports by the participating countries and five case studies on innovative practices in (a) school leadership for systemic improvement and (b) training and development of school leaders.
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26-Feb-2008
The OECD and World Bank have signed a Memorandum of Understanding over the coming five years to co-operate on the gathering of prevalence data on children with disabilities. The intention is to provide data to inform planning to achieve the Millennium Development Goals 2 and 3. These focus on achieving universal completion of primary education by 2015 and promoting the education of girls.
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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 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
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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Focus
PISA 2009 Results presents the findings from the most recent PISA survey, which focused on reading and also assessed mathematics and science performance.
PISA 2009 Results
Focus
This report will prove to be an invaluable resource for all those interested in the broad international picture of education, as well as for those wanting to know more about OECD work in this important domain.
Education Today 2010: The OECD Perspective
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A video series profiling policies and practices of education systems that demonstrate high or improving performance in the PISA tests
