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Education is key to economic growth and to people’s ability to earn a living. Education is important for societies, too, as they respond to increasing cultural and ethnic diversity, inequality and the needs of disadvantaged people. OECD’s Education Directorate works to help countries promote learning opportunities for all - regardless of age, gender or social background. Find out more.
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22-Feb-2010
Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS) data are now available. Data files are available in SPSS, SAS and SAS XPORT, for all countries combined as well as for individual countries.
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10-Feb-2010
Canada’s top-performing high school students are 20 times more likely to access a university education than those at the bottom, and they are also more likely to choose pure science topics, according to a new OECD publication, Pathways to Success.
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from 22-Feb-2010 to 24-Feb-2010
This international meeting was hosted by the Austrian Ministry of Education and jointly organised by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the OECD Centre for Educational Research and Innovation, and the World Bank (WB). More info at www.bildung.at/nml-conference2010
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25-Jan-2010
This report uses recent economic modelling to relate cognitive skills – as measured by PISA and other international instruments – to economic growth, demonstrating that relatively small improvements to labour force skills can largely impact the future well-being of a nation.
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from 13-Sep-2010 to 15-Sep-2010
Higher Education in a World Changed Utterly. Doing More with Less
Register before 1 May 2010 at a discounted rate for this high level conference! Explore how the crisis is affecting higher education and find out how governments, institutions and individuals can be more productive and lead the way to sustainable recovery. www.oecd.org/edu/imhe/generalconference
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04-Dec-2009
This report provides and in-depth examination of 15-year old students’ mathematical literacy using the results of the second survey of the OECD’s Programme for International Student Assessment, PISA 2003.
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from 18-Nov-2009 to 20-Nov-2009
An International Expert Meeting on “The school of the future, today – a systemic approach to technology-based school innovations” held in Santa Catarina (Brazil) conjointly with the Secretariat for Education of the State of Santa Catarina and the OECD Centre for Educational Research and Innovation on 18-20 November 2009. (Website in Portuguese)
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22-Oct-2009
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.
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08-Sep-2009
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.
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from 09-Jun-2009 to 10-Jun-2009
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.
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16-Jun-2009
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”.
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26-May-2009
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.
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28-Apr-2009
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.
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01-Apr-2009
These reports on migrant education policies and practices examine immigrant children’s access to, participation in and performance at school. The reports also look at which interventions are working, which are not working, and why.
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31-Mar-2009
Teenagers in OECD countries are mostly well aware of environmental issues but often know little about their causes, raising questions about how well societies will be equipped to tackle such challenges in the future, according to a new OECD publication.
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