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		      <title>Education</title>
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		      <description><![CDATA[Both individuals and countries benefit from education. For individuals, the potential benefits lie in general quality of life and in the economic returns of sustained, satisfying employment. For countries, the potential benefits lie in economic growth and the development of shared values that underpin social cohesion.]]></description>
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		      <pubDate>Fri Nov 06 14:06:54 CET 2009</pubDate>
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							         <title><![CDATA[Action needed to improve quality and relevance of vocational education and training]]></title>
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							         <description><![CDATA[Good vocational training is an important part of a strong economy. Learning for Jobs, the initial report of the OECD policy review of vocational education and training, presents a set of policy recommendations to help countries make their vocational systems more responsive to labour market needs and boost economic growth.]]></description>
							         <pubDate>Thu Oct 22 23:00:00 CEST 2009</pubDate>
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							         <title><![CDATA[Education for the future - Promoting changes in policies and practices: the way forward]]></title>
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							         <description><![CDATA[Remarks by Angel Gurría, OECD Secretary-General, delivered at the Education Ministerial Round Table, UNESCO, 10 October 2009 - UNESCO, Paris, France]]></description>
							         <pubDate>Thu Oct 15 01:00:00 CEST 2009</pubDate>
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							         <title><![CDATA[Call for Contributions – OECD-IMHE General Conference 2010]]></title>
							         <link><![CDATA[http://www.oecd.org/document/61/0,3343,en_21571361_43541789_43602173_1_1_1_1,00.html?rssChId=37455]]></link>
							         <description><![CDATA[The OECD’s Programme on Institutional Management in Higher Education (IMHE) has launched a call for contributions for its next General Conference, Higher Education in a World Changed Utterly: Doing More with Less, 13-15 September 2010. This represents a valuable opportunity to become part of a showcase to a high level audience in the prestigious setting of the OECD headquarters in Paris. Deadline: Monday, 4 January 2010. Contact: imhe@oecd.org.]]></description>
							         <pubDate>Tue Sep 15 00:00:00 CEST 2009</pubDate>
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							         <title><![CDATA[Economic Survey of Denmark 2009: Human capital: key to higher productivity]]></title>
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							         <description><![CDATA[Human capital has traditionally been a strong point for the Danish economy, boosting income levels and the economy’s capacity to adjust, but there is room for improvement. Key education policy issues that need attention comprise learning outcomes and completion rates.]]></description>
							         <pubDate>Fri Nov 06 11:00:00 CET 2009</pubDate>
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							         <title><![CDATA[Achieving higher performance: Enhancing spending efficiency in health and education in Mexico]]></title>
							         <link><![CDATA[http://www.olis.oecd.org/olis/2009doc.nsf/linkto/eco-wkp(2009)73]]></link>
							         <description><![CDATA[Despite progress over the past two decades Mexico’s health and education indicators remain well below the average of the OECD and some of its Latin American emerging market peers. Health insurance coverage is incomplete, especially for low-income families, and access to health services is highly uneven.]]></description>
							         <pubDate>Tue Nov 03 00:00:00 CET 2009</pubDate>
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							         <title><![CDATA[Spend early on children, says OECD ]]></title>
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							         <description><![CDATA[Governments should invest more money on children in the first six years of their lives to reduce social inequality and help all children, especially the most vulnerable, have happier lives, according to the OECD.]]></description>
							         <pubDate>Tue Sep 01 11:00:00 CEST 2009</pubDate>
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							         <title><![CDATA[Raising Education Outcomes in Greece]]></title>
							         <link><![CDATA[http://www.olis.oecd.org/olis/2009doc.nsf/linkto/eco-wkp(2009)64]]></link>
							         <description><![CDATA[Despite progress over the past decades, Greece’s educational indicators lag behind those of other OECD countries. PISA scores are low, a large number of tertiary students study abroad, and attainment rates are low at all levels of education.]]></description>
							         <pubDate>Wed Sep 23 00:00:00 CEST 2009</pubDate>
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							         <title><![CDATA[Invest in education to beat recession, boost earnings]]></title>
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							         <description><![CDATA[Growing advantages for the better educated and likely continuing high levels of unemployment as economies move out of recession will provide more and more young people with strong incentives to stay on in education. Governments need to take account of this in planning education policies, according to the latest edition of the OECD’s annual Education at a Glance.]]></description>
							         <pubDate>Tue Sep 08 11:00:00 CEST 2009</pubDate>
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							         <title><![CDATA[Informal Meeting of OECD Education Ministers on Equity in Education, Oslo, 9-10 June 2009 ]]></title>
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							         <description><![CDATA[OECD Education Ministers met informally in Oslo on 9-10 June 2009 under the chairmanship of Norway’s Minister of Education, Bård Vegar Solhjell, to discuss measures to improve equity in education and reduce dropout rates in upper secondary school.]]></description>
							         <pubDate>Tue Aug 04 18:16:20 CEST 2009</pubDate>
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							         <title><![CDATA[Teacher effectiveness hampered by lack of incentives and bad behaviour in classrooms]]></title>
							         <link><![CDATA[http://www.oecd.org/document/35/0,3343,en_2649_37455_43018915_1_1_1_37455,00.html?rssChId=37455]]></link>
							         <description><![CDATA[Three out of four teachers feel they lack incentives to improve the quality of their teaching, while bad behaviour by students in the classroom disrupts lessons in three schools out of five, according to a new OECD report “Creating effective teaching and learning environments”.]]></description>
							         <pubDate>Tue Jun 16 00:00:00 CEST 2009</pubDate>
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							         <title><![CDATA[Equally prepared for life? How 15-year-old boys and girls perform in school]]></title>
							         <link><![CDATA[http://www.oecd.org/document/51/0,3343,en_32252351_32236191_42837811_1_1_1_1,00.html?rssChId=37455]]></link>
							         <description><![CDATA[School students are still being held back by gender perceptions. In most countries, girls and boys now show similar results in PISA, but systematic assessment of gender differences shows that students are still being held back by their own gender-related perceptions.]]></description>
							         <pubDate>Tue May 26 00:00:00 CEST 2009</pubDate>
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							         <title><![CDATA[Top of the Class - High Performers in Science in PISA 2006]]></title>
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							         <description><![CDATA[Which factors contribute to the successful performance of students in science?  "Top of the Class" provides some answers by exploring how the academic achievement of students relates to the characteristics of individual students, schools and education systems.]]></description>
							         <pubDate>Tue Apr 28 00:00:00 CEST 2009</pubDate>
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							         <title><![CDATA[International conference on Higher Education at a Time of Crisis: Challenges and Opportunities, 29-30 June]]></title>
							         <link><![CDATA[https://conference.cbs.dk/index.php/oecd/oecd/index.php]]></link>
							         <description><![CDATA[The Copenhagen Business School  in co-operation with OECD/ IMHE hosted a conference on the impact of the economic crisis on higher education institutions on 29-30 June. The conference debated questions of supply and demand, costs and income in higher education and analysed the role and responsibility of higher education institutions and how to transform these challenges into opportunities.
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							         <pubDate>Thu Apr 30 00:00:00 CEST 2009</pubDate>
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