OECD’s 2007 Education at a Glance to be published on Tuesday 18 September

11/09/2007 - The 2007 edition of the OECD’s annual Education at a Glance, a compendium of comparable national statistics that provide a basis for policy debate and decisions, will be published at 11.00 a.m. Paris time on Tuesday 18 September 2007.

Education at a Glance 2007 analyses the impact on labour market returns of the massive expansion of education in OECD countries, particularly at the tertiary level. It looks at whether the increasing supply of well-educated labour has been matched by the creation of an equivalent number of high-paying jobs.

The following media events are planned:  
 
London - Monday 17 September at 11.00 a.m. local time - news conference (under embargo until Tuesday 18 September at 10.00 a.m. London time – 11.00 a.m. Paris time) with Andreas Schleicher, Head of the Educational Statistics and Analysis Division in the OECD’s Education Directorate (Mountbatten Room, Overseas House, Park Place, St. James’s Street, London SW1A ILR).
 
Berlin - Tuesday 18 September at 11.00 a.m. local time - news conference with OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría; Andreas Schleicher of the OECD’s Education Directorate;  Annette Schawan, Federal Minister for Education and Research; and Jürgen Zöllner, President of the Standing Conference of Education Ministers (Bundespressekonferenz, Schiffbaurdamm 40, D-10117 Berlin).

Washington - Tuesday 18 September, at 09.00 a.m. local time - news conference with Barbara Ischinger, Director of the Education Directorate, and Dr. Grover Whitehurst, Director of the Institute of Education Sciences at the US Department of Education (National Education Association, 1201 16th Street NW, Washington DC).

Paris - Tuesday 18 September at 11.00 a.m. local time - news conference with Bernard Hugonnier, Deputy Director for Education at the OECD and Eric Charbonnier of the OECD’s Educational Statistics and Analysis Division (CAPE, Maison de la Radio, Paris 16ème).

Budapest - Tuesday 18 September at 12.00 p.m. local time - news conference with Michael Davidson of the OECD's Education Directorate (Ministry of Education and Culture: 10-14 Szalay utca, H-1055 Budapest).

Tokyo - Tuesday 18 September at 3.00 p.m. local time - videoconference media briefing by the main author of the report, Andreas Schleicher, Head of the OECD's Educational Statistics and Analysis Division. (OECD Tokyo Centre, 3rd floor, Nippon Press Centre Building, 2-2-1 Uchisaiwaicho, Chiyoda-ku, Yokyo 100-0011). Interpretation in Japanese will be provided.

The 2007 edition of Education at a Glance will be available to journalists on the OECD’s password-protected website from 11.00 a.m. Paris time on Tuesday 18 September 2007. A special website will be available shortly at www.oecd.org/edu/eag2007.
 
For further information and to register for the news conferences, journalists are invited to contact the OECD’s Media Division (tel: 33 1 45 24 97 00).