David Istance

Senior Analyst

David Istance is a Senior Analyst in OECD’s Centre for Educational Research and Innovation (CERI).

David heads the “Schooling for Tomorrow" project which is now launching an ambitious new phase. It has active country engagement from around half the OECD countries and some non-member countries, and it is building an international knowledge base on educational futures thinking. Publications in preparation are on educational futures thinking, on personalisation of learning, and on the demand for schooling, with main events in 2006 on demand, innovation in learning (led by Mexico), and on educational futures thinking. 

He is part of the CERI “What Works” team, now focusing on formative assessment of school students and adults with low basic skills. He works closely with the CERI project on University Futures and with other projects in CERI and the Education Directorate – brain research and learning, teachers, leadership, and choice & accountability.

Before his current CERI position, he held university posts in Cardiff and Swansea in Wales, UK from 1991 to 1997. Prior to that, he worked in OECD, in both CERI and the Education and Training Policy Division.
David is an honorary research fellow in the School of Social Sciences, University of Cardiff, is on the editorial boards of the European Journal of Education and the Korean KEDI Journal of Educational Policy, and on the Executive Board of the International Partnership Network.

He studied social sciences at Jesus College, Oxford University, gaining  a B Phil. in Sociology in 1976 and a BA .(now MA) in Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) in 1974.

Reports and articles

“Schooling and Lifelong Learning: insights from OECD analyses”, 2003; European Journal of Education, Vol. 38, No. 1.

What Schools for the Future? Part One and editor of the volume, 2001 OECD Schooling for Tomorrow series.

Education and Equity in OECD Countries, 1997, OECD Paris.

“Higher Education in Wales: The (Re-)Emergence of a National System?”, 1997; Higher Education Quarterly, Vol. 51, No.1, pp. 49-67, (joint author).

“Education at the Chateau de la Muette”, 1996; Oxford Review of Education, Vol. 22, No. 1.

“Escaping the Low Wage/Low Skill Syndrome in Wales: the case for investing in women’s skills”, 1996; British Journal of Education and Work, Vol. 9, No. 1, (joint author).

“‘Status Zero’: A Study of Jobless School-leavers in South Wales”, 1996; Research Papers in Education, Vol.11, No.2, (co-author).

Lifelong Learning in Wales: A Programme for Prosperity, 1995; NIACE Cymru Policy Discussion Paper, NIACE: Leicester (joint author).

Women in Post-compulsory Education and Training in Wales, 1994; Equal Opportunities Commission: Manchester, Research Discussion Series No. 8 (joint author).

Contact information:

OECD/CERI
2, rue André Pascal
75775 Paris, Cedex 16

ceri.contact@oecd.org
Telephone : 33-1 45 24 92 18
Fax: 33-1 44 30 63 94

Office location:
Tour Europe, La Défense

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