7th Meeting of the OECD Network on Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) - "Financing ECEC Services"

The OECD asked people from around the world

to share their priorities for education.

This is what they said.

• French Preschools Aim To Please Toddlers, Moms - Eleanor Beardsley (National Public Radio)
  President Obama wants to make preschool available to every child in the United States. In Europe, universal preschool is a pillar of society, allowing women to work and kids to be socialized. In France, children start school at age 3.

OECD Headquarters – Paris, France

21-22 June 2010

 The main purpose of the meeting was to discuss financing ECEC services, in particular: 

• collecting data on costs and financing; 
• reviewing outcomes of investment in early childhood education and care; and
• designing effective funding strategies to increase ECEC financing, improve efficiency and ensure equity and quality of child outcomes.

Countries were invited to share recent policy developments and emerging findings from their own experiences and national research. International organisations and researchers were also invited to provide information on their work in the area.

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• Agenda / Ordre du jour (forthcoming)
• Summary Record / Compte-rendu (forthcoming)
• Presentations
• Related material (forthcoming)

Contact

• Miho Taguma, Project Leader, miho.taguma@oecd.org
• Kelly Makowiecki, Assistant, kelly.makowiecki@oecd.org

Bookmark this page: www.oecd.org/edu/earlychildhood/7thmeeting