Cities and Regions in the New Learning Economy

Is there a "new learning economy"? Do regions and cities play new roles in terms of governance and intervention in order to promote learning, innovation, productivity and economic performance at the local level? Such questions are high on the pol...

School technology through the eyes of its users

Lifelong learning as an affordable investment, Canada, 6-8 December 2000

This conference addressed the implementation of strategies for lifelong learning, and included policy debate, future strategies and programmes

United States and European School-aged Disability Prevalence: An Investigative Study to Elaborate Differences

In 1995 the OECD published the first comprehensive set of data intended to provide a comparative review of the educational provision for students with disabilities and disadvantages in OECD countries. That study found that although there were technical difficulties in making comparisons due to definitional differences among countries, sufficiently large differences did appear to exist among the countries to indicate the occurrence of

Programme on Education Building journal: PEB Exchange No. 41 - October 2000

Articles: City Learning Centres for the 21st Century (United Kingdom); School Premises and Violence; Invention, Maintenance and Renewal of Urban Educational Facilities; New Technology and Education in Finland; The Science Resource Area in the State-of-the-Art High School (USA).

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High level forum on knowledge management, Ottawa, Canada, 21-22 September 2000

This seminar was about advancing the understanding of knowledge management at organisation and enterprise levels, across sectors, in the emerging knowledge economy.

Knowledge Management: The new Challenge for Firms and Organisations - 21 - 22 September 2000, Ottawa, Canada

The aims of the seminar are to advance our understanding of knowledge management at organisation and enterprise levels across sectors in the emerging knowledge economy and to develop a framework identifying good practices of knowledge management in enterprises and organisations across sectors. <

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Social exclusion has become one of the important themes in contemporary social policy debates in OECD countries. While there is a considerable debate about the precise meaning of the term (Evans, Paugham, and Prelis, 1995, Atkinson, 1998a, Klasen...

Risks and Outcomes of Social Exclusion Insights from Longitudinal Data

Children's vulnerability to adverse social and economic circumstances is well established. Socio-economic background is one of the main predictors of cognitive development that provide the underpinnings of educational achievement, and on which mu...

The New Learning for Inclusion and Capability: Towards Community Governance in the Education Action Zones

If cities, in the global age, are to address the twin tasks of economic regeneration and social inclusion they will require a renaissance in learning (EC/Fast). This challenge is to develop the capabilities (Sen, 1985; 1990; Nussbaum and Sen, 1...