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| 2012 Global Youth Video Competition |
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What are the big issues in education today? Learning the right skills to get a job, bridging the 'digital divide', tackling inequality in access to education and training, inspiring creativity and innovation... or something else? Take part in the second OECD youth video competition on the theme education and skills. Winners will be awarded an all expenses paid trip to Paris in May 2012 to attend the OECD Forum. The deadline is 31 March 2012. |
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| New Practitioner's Guide to Perception Surveys |
| This guide helps government officials, NGOs and business associations design and use perception surveys to evaluate and communicate the results of reform processes. While the guide draws on examples from the regulatory field, it is also useful for other areas. In non-technical language, the guide clearly explains the challenges involved in the design and use of business and citizen perception surveys – and ways to overcome them. It also helps government officials, NGOs and business associations get the most out of survey results. For more information on how to best use perception surveys, please visit www.oecd.org/regreform/perceptions. |
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| PISA: Video series "Strong Performers and Successful Reformers in Education" |
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Ever since OECD's PISA studies revealed wide differences among nations in how well their schools prepare students for life, educators, researchers and policy-makers around the world have struggled to understand how they can learn from the countries doing best on PISA. Together with OECD's comparative reviews, the analytical series Strong Performers and Successful Reformers in Education examines the policies and |
practices of those education systems that excel through superior quality, equity and efficiency or that have seen rapid improvements over the last decade. A series of documentaries sponsored by the Pearson Foundation has now turned these success stories into powerful visuals, demonstrating how, for instance, Portugal is restructuring and consolidating its fragmented school system to raise quality and equity in learning outcomes or how Japan is rebuilding its education system in the face of the impact of the Great East Japan Earthquake as well as changing skill requirements in the global economy. For more information: www.pisa.oecd.org. |
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| OECD work on income inequality and growth |
| Can less income inequality and more growth both be achieved? A recent OECD study sheds new light on the link between policies that boost growth and the distribution of income. It suggests that there are win-win policy options: raising human capital is key, labour market reforms can help and taxation can be made more equitable and growth friendly. But there are also reforms that lead to a trade-off between growth and equity. |
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| New series: Education Indicators in Focus |
| Education Indicators in Focus is a new recurring series of briefs that highlight specific indicators in OECD's Education at a Glance that are of particular interest to policy makers and practitioners. They provide a detailed look into current issues in pre-primary, primary and secondary education, higher education, and adult outcomes from a global perspective, and contain an engaging mix of text, tables and charts that describe the international context of the most pressing questions in education policy and practice. |
| Designing for Education: Compendium of Exemplary Educational Facilities 2011 |
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Investment in schools – through renovating, extending or constructing new schools - is a visible commitment to the community and a cost-effective way to revitalise local economies. OECD's new publication
Designing for Education: Compendium of Exemplary Educational Facilities 2011 is all about how design can create new and exciting opportunities for students, teachers, parents and communities. It showcases over 60 exemplary schools and universities from 28 countries and includes examples of early childhood, primary, secondary, vocational and higher education facilities spanning countries in six continents, from India, Uruguay and Portugal, to Australia, United States and Burkina Faso. Published every five years, it reflects on what we have learned from the dynamic interplay between design and education over the last 40 years and on what could be possible in the coming decades. |
The OECD "Database of Best Practices in Educational Facilities Investments", a joint OECD/European Investment Bank project, draws on these and other projects, providing a unique web-based resource for educators, designers, policymakers and researchers alike. To find out more about the publication see
www.oecd.org/edu/facilities/compendium and database www.edfacilitiesinvestment-db.org. |
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| Civil Society and OECD - Recent Meetings |
| Several events and meetings involving civil society have taken place since the month of December. You can find more details in this short article. |
