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<title><![CDATA[Video - Strong Performers and Successful Reformers in Education - Netherlands ]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[In a drive to raise the quality of classroom teaching and boost student performance, Dutch education authorities are encouraging teachers to learn from each other through a process of peer review.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 18:44:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Video - Strong Performers and Successful Reformers in Education - Belgium (Flanders)]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Flanders builds a "triangle of quality" based on extensive autonomy for schools, supported by pedagogical advisory services and monitored by government inspectors.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 18:42:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[PISA in Focus N°28: What makes urban schools different? ]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[In most countries and economies, students who attend schools in urban areas tend to perform at higher levels than other students. Socio-economic status explains only part of the performance difference between students who attend urban schools and other students.]]></description>
<link>http://www.oecd.org/pisa/pisainfocus/pisa%20in%20focus%20n28%20(eng)--FINAL.pdf</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 18:06:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[The “urban advantage” in education ]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Nearly half the world’s population now lives in urban areas. What does that mean for education?]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 15:17:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[The OECD awards first Thomas J. Alexander Fellows for education quality and equity]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The OECD has named four researchers as the first Thomas J. Alexander Fellows: João Galvão Bacchetto, of Brazil; Przemysław Biecek of Poland; Gabriela Miranda Moriconi of Brazil; and William Schmidt of the United States. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 16:23:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Education Policy Outlook]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The Education policy Outlook is a new publication that uses existing knowledge to review education policies and reforms across OECD countries. It will build on substantial comparative and sectorial policy knowledge and on the experience of policy outlooks already developed across the OECD.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 16:31:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Learning from other countries’ experiences in education - ]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Rather than prescribe actions, the OECD often prefers to show policy makers what everyone else is doing and how successful those initiatives have been. A new OECD series of individual Education Policy Outlook Country Profiles does just that: each profile describes how an individual country is responding to key challenges to improve the effectiveness of its education system. 
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<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 11:14:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Synergies for Better Learning: An International Perspective on Evaluation and Assessment
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<description><![CDATA[How can assessment and evaluation policies work together more effectively to improve student outcomes in primary and secondary schools? This report provides an international comparative analysis and policy advice to countries on how evaluation and assessment arrangements can be embedded within a consistent framework to improve the quality, equity and efficiency of school education.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2013 10:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Strengthen evaluation to improve student learning, says OECD ]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Education systems around the world are increasingly measuring the performance of teachers and schools as part of their drive to help students do better and improve results. Rising demand for higher education standards and a trend towards greater school autonomy in some countries are among the factors behind this new focus according to the OECD]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2013 10:20:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[PISA in Focus N°27: Does it matter which school a student attends?
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<description><![CDATA[Successful education systems guarantee that all students succeed at high levels. As this month’s PISA in Focus notes, some school systems not only do well on international assessments, like PISA, they also manage to minimise the difference between the best- and poorest-performing students.
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<link>http://www.oecd.org/pisa/pisainfocus/pisa%20in%20focus%20n27%20(eng)--FINAL.pdf
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<pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 17:09:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Newsroom - OECD develops new tool to help schools improve
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<description><![CDATA[03/04/2013 – The OECD has developed a new tool to help individual schools benchmark their students’ proficiency in reading, mathematics and science against the world’s top education systems. It will also give educators an insight into the learning environments at schools so they can consider ways to improve student learning.]]></description>
<link>http://www.oecd.org/edu/school/oecd-develops-new-tool-to-help-schools-improve.htm</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 03 Apr 2013 17:34:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Skills for the digital economy ]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Digital economies are powered by skills. People with the high-end skills needed to invent and apply new technologies are in high demand the world over. At the same time, the portfolio of basic skills needed to navigate technology-rich environments and function effectively in our connected societies has expanded. How severe is the shortage of ICT skills? And what needs to be done to fill the gaps? 
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<link>http://oecdeducationtoday.blogspot.fr/2013/04/skills-for-digital-economy.html</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 03 Apr 2013 11:36:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[PISA-Based Test for Schools]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The PISA-Based Test for Schools [In the United States, the assessment is known as the OECD Test for Schools (based on PISA)] is a student assessment tool geared for use by schools and networks of schools to support research, benchmarking and school improvement efforts. 
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<pubDate>Tue, 02 Apr 2013 13:12:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Education Indicators in Focus 12 - Which factors determine the level of expenditure on teaching staff?
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<description><![CDATA[The higher the level of education, the higher the salary cost of teachers per student. In Belgium (Flemish Community), France and Spain, the difference in the annual salary cost between the primary and upper secondary levels of education exceeds USD 1 800 in 2010.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2013 15:44:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[OECD Education and Skills Newsletter - March 2013 ]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Bringing you the highlights from the OECD Directorate for Education and Skills]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 15 Mar 2013 17:40:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[2013 International Summit on the Teaching Profession]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[2013 International Summit on the Teaching Profession]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2013 16:28:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[TED Talk - Andreas Schleicher: Use data to build better schools ]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[How can we measure what makes a school system work? Andreas Schleicher walks us through the PISA test, a global measurement that ranks countries against one another -- then uses that same data to help schools improve. Watch to find out where your country stacks up, and learn the single factor that makes some systems outperform others.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2013 13:01:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Education Indicators in Focus No. 11 - What are the social benefits of education? How do early childhood education and care (ECEC) policies, systems and quality vary across OECD countries?
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<description><![CDATA[In many OECD countries, ECEC services have increased in response to a growing demand for better learning outcomes as well as growing female labour force participation. In recent years, however, the goals of ECEC policy have become more child-centred.
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<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2013 16:53:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Education for policymakers - Barbara Ischinger, Director, OECD Directorate for Education and Skills]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Education is one OECD department that has embraced the information revolution.]]></description>
<link>http://www.oecdobserver.org/news/fullstory.php/aid/3934/Education_for_policymakers.html</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2013 13:18:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[PISA in Focus N°25: Are countries moving towards more equitable education systems?]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Most of us think of education as the great leveller; but are our education systems really doing all they can to ensure that boys and girls from all backgrounds have an equal shot at a high-quality education? As this month’s PISA in Focus reports, some countries have been more successful than others in levelling the playing field for their students. ]]></description>
<link>http://www.oecd.org/pisa/pisainfocus/pisa%20in%20focus%20n25%20(eng)--FINAL.pdf</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2013 11:35:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Getting internationalisation right - by Andreas Schleicher Deputy Director for Education and Skills, Special Advisor on Education Policy to the OECD's Secretary General
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<description><![CDATA[The exceptional turnout at the 2013 OECD/Japan Seminar  in Tokyo this week, where over 300 participants from over 20 countries discussed global strategies for higher education, shows that the seminar had exactly the right agenda at exactly the right time. I asked myself how many people would have turned up had this seminar been held five years ago; or whether five years ago, Japan would have ventured to take the lead on this theme.
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<link>http://oecdeducationtoday.blogspot.fr/2013/02/getting-internationalisation-right.html
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<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2013 16:58:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[2013 International Summit on the Teaching Profession (Amsterdam, 13-14 March 2013)     ]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The theme of the third annual International Summit on the Teaching Profession, to be held in Amsterdam on 13-14 March 2013, focuses on teacher evaluation and professional standards. ]]></description>
<link>http://www.oecd.org/site/eduistp13/</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2013 17:07:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Evaluaciones de políticas nacionales de Educación - La Educación superior en Colombia]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Colombia es una de las principales economías de la región de América Latina y el Caribe y el gobierno tiene planes ambiciosos para su desarrollo social y económico, para lo que es crucial el fortalecimiento del capital
humano.]]></description>
<link>http://www.oecd.org/edu/Evaluaciones de políticas nacionales de Educación - La Educación superior en Colombia.pdf</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2013 18:59:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Reviews of National Policies for Education: Tertiary Education in Colombia 2012  ]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[In Colombia, the beginning of a new century has brought with it a palpable feeling of optimism. Colombians and visitors sense that the country’s considerable potential can be realised, and education is rightly seen as crucial to this process. As opportunities expand, Colombians will need new and better skills to respond to new challenges and prospects.

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<link>http://www.oecd.org/edu/Reviews of National Policies for Education Tertiary Education in Colombia 2012.pdf</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2013 18:53:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[15th OECD/Japan Seminar - Global Strategies for Higher Education-Global Trends and Rethinking the Role of Government”
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<description><![CDATA[This seminar will provide an opportunity for participants to share experiences on issues such as the influence of accelerated commercialization of education and a knowledge-based society.]]></description>
<link>http://www.medical-bank.org/oecdjapan/index_eng.php
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<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2013 12:17:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[AHELO Feasibility Study Report - Volume 1]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[This first volume of the report of the Feasibility Study of the Assessment of Higher Education Learning Outcomes (AHELO) focuses on the design and implementation of the Study and the lessons learnt through that process.]]></description>
<link>http://www.oecd.org/edu/skills-beyond-school/AHELOFSReportVolume1.pdf</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2013 11:45:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Winner of the OECD Education Data Visualization Challenge ]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[This interactive chart, designed by Krisztina Szucs and Mate Cziner from Hungary, condenses highly complex data on the costs and benefits of education around the world. It clearly highlights important facts showing students, parents and policy makers where the real costs and benefits lie for them in relation to education]]></description>
<link>http://oecdeducationtoday.blogspot.fr/2013/01/dynamic-educational-data-award.html</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2013 12:39:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Switzerland should reform funding for professional education and training]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Switzerland should reform its funding arrangements for professional education and training system by implementing a new intercantonal funding agreement, and piloting additional funding measures, according to a new OECD report. ]]></description>
<link>http://www.oecd.org/edu/switzerlandshouldreformfundingforprofessionaleducationandtraining.htm</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2013 11:34:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Education Today 2013 - The OECD Perspective
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<description><![CDATA[What does the OECD have to say about the state of education today? What are the main OECD messages on early childhood education, teacher policies and tertiary education? What about student performance, educational spending and equity in education? OECD work on these important education topics and others have been brought together in a single accessible source updating the first edition of Education Today which came out in March 2009. 
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<link>http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/education/education-today_22190430</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 17 Dec 2012 19:12:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[OECD Education Newsletter - Bringing you the highlights from the OECD Directorate for Education and Skills (December 2012)]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[OECD Education Newsletter - Bringing you the highlights from the OECD Directorate for Education and Skills(December 2012)]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 17 Dec 2012 10:47:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[OECD Education Today… and tomorrow (Barbara Ischinger, Director for Education and Skills)
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<description><![CDATA[OECD Education Today… and tomorrow]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 16 Dec 2012 19:59:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[U.S. Education Is Getting Left Behind - Andreas Schleicher, Special Advisor on Education Policy, OECD]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The U.S. is now the only country in the industrialised world in which the generation entering the workforce does not have higher college attainment levels than the generation about to leave the workforce. While that is in part due to the traditionally high levels of college attainment in the U.S, an increasing number of countries have approached and surpassed U.S. graduation levels and others are bound to follow over the coming years. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2012 11:07:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Got any good ideas about how to improve education? ]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[education quality, improving education]]></description>
<link>http://oecdeducationtoday.blogspot.fr/2012/10/got-any-good-ideas-about-how-to-improve.html</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2012 10:25:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[What the D in OECD stands for, by Barbara Ischinger, Director for Education and Skills]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Did you know that the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development helped to lay the groundwork for the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals? Even though Development is part of our name, there are many people who don’t realise just how much of our resources are devoted to developing economies and not only to the development of the OECD’s 34 member countries.]]></description>
<link>http://oecdeducationtoday.blogspot.fr/2012/10/what-d-in-oecd-stands-for.html</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2012 16:31:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Women leaders can break the mould, interview with Indira Samarasekera, PresidentUniversity of Alberta, Canada]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Indira Samarasekera, President of the University of Alberta  in Canada, was one of the keynote speakers at this year’s Institutional Management in Higher Education (IMHE) Conference, held at OECD headquarters in Paris this past September. Marilyn Achiron, Editor at the OECD’s Education Directorate, spoke with her about a variety of subjects]]></description>
<link>http://oecdeducationtoday.blogspot.fr/2012/10/women-leaders-can-break-mould.html</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 09 Oct 2012 15:56:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Are countries educating to protect against unemployment? by Dirk Van Damme]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[More people than even before now reach a level of educational attainment equivalent to upper secondary education. The available evidence is very conclusive: this level of education can be considered a minimum level to ensure a job and a living wage. ]]></description>
<link>http://oecdeducationtoday.blogspot.fr/2012/10/are-countries-educating-to-protect.html</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 04 Oct 2012 11:37:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[It's high time to fight corruption in education, by Mihaylo Milovanovitch]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A modern day Bulgarian proverb says “What money can’t buy, a lot of money can”. Sadly, the truth of this popular wisdom holds well beyond the country it comes from. Sadly too, it seems to work well in schools and universities. Year by year Transparency International (TI), an international anti-corruption NGO, publishes data on the perceptions and experience of people from around the globe...]]></description>
<link>http://oecdeducationtoday.blogspot.fr/2012/10/its-high-time-to-fight-corruption-in.html</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2012 12:01:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[A lesson in teaching from the grassroots, by Andreas Schleicher]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[I was in London last week to give a talk on “how to transform 10,000 classrooms” at the annual Teach First/Teach for All conference in London. Some 3,000 teachers and social entrepreneurs from around the world gathered there to discuss ways to re-invent and strengthen the teaching profession. ]]></description>
<link>http://oecdeducationtoday.blogspot.fr/2012/09/a-lesson-in-teaching-from-grassroots.html</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2012 10:40:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[OECD Education Newsletter - September 2012]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[This issue focuses on the latest OECD annual education indicators published in the 2012 edition of Education at a Glance. 
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<link>http://www.oecdmybrochure.org/edu/newsletter/</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 21 Sep 2012 13:46:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[PISA in Focus N°20: Are school vouchers associated with equity in education?]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[PISA policy brief examining the relationship between different types of school funding and the socio-economic profiles of schools' students]]></description>
<link>http://www.oecd.org/edu/pisa in focus n°20 (eng)--v04_FINAL.pdf</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2012 17:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Education at a Glance 2012 - Country Note - Estonia]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Whereas expenditure on education and expenditure per student increased significantly between 2000 and 2009, Estonia has seen the largest drop in education funding since the global recession, compared to other OECD countries.]]></description>
<link>http://www.oecd.org/edu/estonia50.pdf</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2012 13:16:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Investing in people, skills and education for inclusive growth and jobs ]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[As the spectre of another economic downturn looms large in many countries and is already a reality in others, new data from the 2012 edition of Education at a Glance: OECD Indicators – released today – provides powerful insights into the link between education, economic progress and social mobility around the world.]]></description>
<link>http://oecdeducationtoday.blogspot.com/2012/09/investing-in-people-skills-and.html</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2012 11:31:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Education spending rising but access to higher education remains unequal in most countries, says OECD]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Governments should increase investment in early childhood programmes and maintain reasonable costs for higher education in order to reduce inequality, boost social mobility and improve people’s employment prospects, according to a new OECD report.]]></description>
<link>http://www.oecd.org/edu/educationspendingrisingbutaccesstohighereducationremainsunequalinmostcountriessaysoecd.htm</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2012 11:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Education at a Glance 2012: OECD Indicators]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The 2012 edition of Education at a Glance enables countries to see themselves in the light of other countries’ educational performance. ]]></description>
<link>http://www.oecd.org/edu/eag2012.htm</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2012 10:55:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Education at a Glance 2012: Country Notes - Korea]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Korea has reduced the share of individuals without upper secondary education while the proportion of tertiary-educated individuals increased rapidly over the past 14 years.]]></description>
<link>http://www.oecd.org/edu/EAG2012 - Country note - Korea.pdf</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2012 18:52:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Education at a Glance 2012 - Country Note - Canada (French)]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Education at a Glance 2012 - Country Note - Canada (French)]]></description>
<link>http://www.oecd.org/edu/EAG2012 - Country note - Canada (FR).pdf</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2012 18:50:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Education at a Glance 2012: Country Notes - Brazil]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Brazil boasts one of the largest increases in expenditure on education between 2000 and 2009 among the countries for which data was available.]]></description>
<link>http://www.oecd.org/edu/EAG2012 - Country note - Brazil.pdf</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2012 18:49:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Education at a Glance 2012: Country Notes - Japan (Japanese)]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Education at a Glance 2012: Country Notes - Japan (Japanese)]]></description>
<link>http://www.oecd.org/edu/EAG2012 - Country note - Japan (JPN).pdf</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2012 17:40:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Education at a Glance 2012: Country Notes - Sweden]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Sweden enjoys an 81.5% employment rate for all levels of education – the second highest rate of all OECD countries after Iceland (Table A7.1b).]]></description>
<link>http://www.oecd.org/edu/EAG2012 - Country note - Sweden5.pdf</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2012 17:37:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Education at a Glance 2012: Country Notes - Spain (Spanish)]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Education at a Glance 2012: Country Notes - Spain (Spanish)]]></description>
<link>http://www.oecd.org/edu/November 20 EAG2012 - Country note - Spain (ES)_FINAL.pdf</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2012 16:52:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Education at a Glance 2012: Country Notes - Russian Federation]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The high educational attainment level of the Russian population continues to increase. 88% of the adult population have attained at least upper secondary education and 54% have a tertiary qualification.]]></description>
<link>http://www.oecd.org/edu/EAG2012 - Country note - Russian Federation.pdf</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2012 16:50:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Education at a Glance 2012: Country Notes - Portugal]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Education at a Glance 2012: Country Notes - Portugal]]></description>
<link>http://www.oecd.org/edu/CN - Portugal.pdf</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2012 16:49:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Education at a Glance 2012: Country Notes - Mexico]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Since making pre-primary education compulsory in 2009, Mexico has achieved one of the highest enrolment rates of four-year-old children among OECD countries, but high student-teacher ratios pose significant challenges for early childhood education and care.]]></description>
<link>http://www.oecd.org/edu/EAG2012 - Country note - Mexico.pdf</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2012 16:48:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Education at a Glance 2012 - Country Notes - Italy]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Entry rates for higher education increased after Italy introduced a new degree structure in the early 2000s. While university-level attainment still remains below the OECD average, the gap for younger generations of Italians is expected to narrow over the next decade.]]></description>
<link>http://www.oecd.org/edu/EAG2012 - Country note - Italy.pdf</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2012 16:46:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Education at a Glance 2012: Country Notes - Canada]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Canada ranks first among OECD countries in the proportion of adults with a college (tertiary-type 5B) education (24%) and ranks 8th in the proportion of adults with a university (tertiary-type 5A) education (26%).]]></description>
<link>http://www.oecd.org/edu/EAG2012 - Country note - Canada.pdf</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2012 16:45:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Education at a Glance 2012: Country Notes - Australia]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Australia’s education system achieves good outcomes overall - attainment of upper secondary education by adults aged 25 to 34 was 85% in 2010, above the OECD average of 82%]]></description>
<link>http://www.oecd.org/edu/EAG2012 - Country note - Australia.pdf</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2012 16:44:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Education at a Glance 2012 - Country Note for Germany (german)]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Education at a Glance 2012 - Country Note for Germany (german)]]></description>
<link>http://www.oecd.org/edu/country note Germany (DE).pdf</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2012 14:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Education at a Glance 2012: Country Notes - United States]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Education at a Glance 2012: Country Notes - United States]]></description>
<link>http://www.oecd.org/edu/CN - United States.pdf</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 07 Sep 2012 11:47:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Education at a Glance 2012: Country Notes - United Kingdom]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Education at a Glance 2012: Country Notes - United Kingdom]]></description>
<link>http://www.oecd.org/edu/EAG2012 - Country note - United Kingdom.pdf</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 07 Sep 2012 11:46:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Education at a Glance 2012: Country Notes - Spain]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Virtually all three-year-olds in Spain are enrolled in school, most of them in public institutions. Spain’s expenditure on pre-primary education (for public institutions) amounts to 0.9% of GDP, compared to the OECD average of 0.5% of the combined GDP.]]></description>
<link>http://www.oecd.org/edu/EAG2012 - Country note - Spain.pdf</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 07 Sep 2012 11:45:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Education at a Glance 2012: Country Notes - Japan]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Although the salaries of experienced teachers in Japan are high relative to other OECD countries, their starting salaries are lower and working hours are longer. Moreover, different from the trend across OECD countries, teachers’ salaries have been declining since 2000 in real terms.]]></description>
<link>http://www.oecd.org/edu/EAG2012 - Country note - Japan.pdf</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 07 Sep 2012 11:43:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Education at a Glance 2012: Country Notes - Germany]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Germany’s early childhood education system is fairly well-developed: 96% of four-year-olds are enrolled in early childhood education programmes, and 89% of three-year-olds are. These levels are well above the respective OECD averages of 79% and 66%.]]></description>
<link>http://www.oecd.org/edu/EAG2012 - Country note - Germany.pdf</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 07 Sep 2012 11:37:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Regards sur l'éducation 2012 : Notes pays - France ]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[L’école maternelle est ouverte au plus grand nombre en France malgré un investissement par élève moindre par rapport à la moyenne des pays de l’OCDE, ce qui se traduit par un taux d’encadrement (enseignants et auxiliaires d’éducation confondus) plus élevé en France que dans la plupart des pays de l’OCDE.]]></description>
<link>http://www.oecd.org/edu/EAG2012 - Country note - France (FR).pdf</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 07 Sep 2012 11:36:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Education at a Glance 2012: Country Notes - European Union]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The relative earnings premium for those with a tertiary education increased in most EU21 countries over the past ten years, indicating that the demand for more educated individuals still exceeds supply.]]></description>
<link>http://www.oecd.org/edu/EAG2012 - Country note - European Union.pdf</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 07 Sep 2012 11:32:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Education: OECD calls for reform of postsecondary vocational education and training in Denmark]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Denmark should build on the strengths of its vocational and educational training programme to ensure that young people enter the labour market with the skills companies need and to meet the national goal of having 60% of young people enter higher education by 2020, according to a new OECD report.
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<link>http://www.oecd.org/edu/country-studies/educationoecdcallsforreformofpostsecondaryvocationaleducationandtrainingindenmark.htm</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 Sep 2012 11:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Education: Korea should improve its vocational education programmes, says OECD

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<description><![CDATA[Korea should reform its vocational education and training programmes to ensure that students leave college with the skills and expertise that companies need in today’s rapidly changing labour market, according to a new OECD report. ]]></description>
<link>http://www.oecd.org/edu/country-studies/educationkoreashouldimproveitsvocationaleducationprogrammessaysoecd.htm</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 Sep 2012 09:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Second chances in education 
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<description><![CDATA[We all know how important the first years of formal education are; but what if the education provided during those years isn’t the best it can be? ]]></description>
<link>http://oecdeducationtoday.blogspot.com/2012/08/second-chances-in-education.html </link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 30 Aug 2012 10:37:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Making the right connections 
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<description><![CDATA[It’s becoming clear to me that the crisis in youth unemployment around the world is not just one of the aftershocks of the global economic downturn, but may also have roots in education systems that are not adequately preparing students for 21st-century economies.]]></description>
<link>http://oecdeducationtoday.blogspot.fr/2012/08/making-right-connections.html</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 02 Aug 2012 15:29:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[June 2012: OECD Education Newsletter ]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[OECD Education Newsletter JUly]]></description>
<link>http://www.oecdmybrochure.org/edu/newsletter/</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 01 Aug 2012 18:04:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[PISA: PISA in Focus 18]]></title>
<description><![CDATA['PISA in Focus 18' uses PISA 2006 data to examine whether student performance in science and motivation to learn is increased when schools offer science related extracurricular activities.
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<link>http://www.oecd.org/edu/pisa in focus n18 (eng)--v05.pdf</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jul 2012 11:39:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Registration for the Programme on Institutional Management in Higher Education (IMHE) General Conference 2012]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Join around 500 higher education policy-makers, institutional leaders and academic experts active in higher education at the biennial General Conference of the OECD’s Programme for Institutional Management in Higher Education on 17-19 September in Paris.
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<link>http://www.oecd.org/edu/registrationfortheprogrammeoninstitutionalmanagementinhighereducationimhegeneralconference2012.htm</link>
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<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[OECD Education Newsletter]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[OECD Education Newsletter]]></description>
<link>http://www.oecd.org/edu/oecdeducationnewsletter.htm</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Strong Performers and Successful Reformers in Education - Delivering School Transparency in Australia]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[This case study describes the policy-making process in Australia leading to the public release of information on every school in Australia through the My School website. Policy lessons are described to provide insight for OECD member countries which may be grappling with similar issues.]]></description>
<link>http://www.oecd.org/edu/Strong Performers and Successful Reformers in Education - Delivering School Transparency in Australia.pdf</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jun 2012 12:54:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Are Teachers Getting the Recognition They Deserve? ]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[More and more countries are having discussions about how to evaluate the quality of their teaching workforce and, subsequently, how to reward teachers for their work. The OECD’s newest series of briefs, Teaching in Focus, launches this month with a discussion of the appraisal and feedback teachers receive and the impact of both on their teaching.
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<link>http://oecdeducationtoday.blogspot.fr/2012/05/are-teachers-getting-recognition-they.html</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[What should students learn in the 21st century? ]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[By Charles Fadel - Founder & chairman, Center for Curriculum Redesign 
It has become clear that teaching skills requires answering “What should students learn in the 21st century?” on a deep and broad basis. Teachers need to have the time and flexibility to develop knowledge, skills, and character, while also considering the meta-layer/fourth dimension that includes learning how to learn, interdisciplinarity, and personalisation. 

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<link>http://oecdeducationtoday.blogspot.fr/2012/05/what-should-students-learn-in-21st.html</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[OECD launches Skills Strategy to boost jobs and growth]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The OECD has launched its Skills Strategy to help governments build economic resilience, boost employment and reinforce social cohesion. Despite the pressure on public finances, spending on education and skills is an investment for the future and must be a priority.]]></description>
<link>http://www.oecd.org/edu/country-studies/oecdlaunchesskillsstrategytoboostjobsandgrowth.htm</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Untapped Skills: Realising the Potential of Immigrant Students]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A country’s success in integrating immigrants’ children is a key benchmark of the efficacy of social policy in general and education policy in particular. The variance in performance gaps between immigrant and non-immigrant students across countries, even after adjusting for socio-economic background, suggests that policy has an important role to play in eliminating such gaps. 

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<link>http://www.oecd.org/edu/Untapped Skills.pdf</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 12:42:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[More parent and community engagement would boost quality in early childhood education and care in England]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The report highlights strategies from other countries that could serve as a model for England as it develops its early childhood education and care programme.]]></description>
<link>http://www.oecd.org/edu/school/moreparentandcommunityengagementwouldboostqualityinearlychildhoodeducationandcareinengland.htm</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[The OECD skills strategy and its relevance for Japan]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Without adequate investment in skills, people languish on the margins of society, technological progress does not translate into inclusive economic growth, and countries can no longer compete in an increasingly knowledge-based global society, said OECD Secretary-General.]]></description>
<link>http://www.oecd.org/edu/country-studies/theoecdskillsstrategyanditsrelevanceforjapan.htm</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Education Indicators in Focus No. 2]]></title>
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<link>http://www.oecd.org/edu/skills-beyond-school/49729932.pdf</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Equity and Quality in Education: Supporting Disadvantaged Students and Schools - Spotlight Report: Greece]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[This spotlight report draws upon the OECD report Equity and Quality in Education: Supporting Disadvantaged Students and Schools. ]]></description>
<link>http://www.oecd.org/edu/school/49603577.pdf</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Equity and Quality in Education: Supporting Disadvantaged Students and Schools - Spotlight Report: Spain]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[This spotlight report draws upon the OECD report Equity and Quality in Education: Supporting Disadvantaged Students and Schools. ]]></description>
<link>http://www.oecd.org/edu/school/49603597.pdf</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Equity and Quality in Education: Supporting Disadvantaged Students and Schools - Spotlight Report: Ireland]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[This spotlight report draws upon the OECD report Equity and Quality in Education: Supporting Disadvantaged Students and Schools. ]]></description>
<link>http://www.oecd.org/edu/school/49603587.pdf</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Equity and Quality in Education: Supporting Disadvantaged Students and Schools - Spotlight Report: Sweden]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[This spotlight report draws upon the OECD report Equity and Quality in Education: Supporting Disadvantaged Students and Schools. ]]></description>
<link>http://www.oecd.org/edu/school/49603607.pdf</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Equity and Quality in Education: Supporting Disadvantaged Students and Schools - Spotlight Report: Austria]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[This spotlight report draws upon the OECD report Equity and Quality in Education: Supporting Disadvantaged Students and Schools. ]]></description>
<link>http://www.oecd.org/edu/school/49603557.pdf</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Equity and Quality in Education: Supporting Disadvantaged Students and Schools - Spotlight Report: The Netherlands]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[This spotlight report draws upon the OECD report Equity and Quality in Education: Supporting Disadvantaged Students and Schools. ]]></description>
<link>http://www.oecd.org/edu/school/49603617.pdf</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[OECD Reviews of Evaluation and Assessment in Education: Czech Republic]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[This report for the Czech Republic forms part of the OECD Review on Evaluationand Assessment Frameworks for Improving School Outcomes. The purpose of the Review is to explore how systems of evaluation and assessment can be used to improve the quality, equity and efficiency of school education.]]></description>
<link>http://www.oecd.org/edu/school/49479976.pdf</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Slovak Republic should help preschool teachers improve their skills, says OECD]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[29/03/2012 - Slovak Republic should help preschool teachers improve their skills, says OECD, and should encourage preschool teachers to keep improving their qualifications throughout their career and attract more young people, especially men, to the profession]]></description>
<link>http://www.oecd.org/edu/school/slovakrepublicshouldhelppreschoolteachersimprovetheirskillssaysoecd.htm</link>
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<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[OECD Reviews of Evaluation and Assessment in Education: School Evaluation in the Flemish Community of Belgium 2011]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[This report provides, for the Flemish community of Belgium, an independent analysis of major issues facing the educational evaluation and assessment framework, current policy initiatives, and possible future approaches.]]></description>
<link>http://www.oecd.org/edu/school/oecdreviewsofevaluationandassessmentineducationschoolevaluationintheflemishcommunityofbelgium2011.htm</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Czech Republic should further develop its framework programme for preschool education, says OECD]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The Czech Republic should build on the strengths of its preschool education framework to further enhance the quality of its early childhood education and care services, according to a new OECD report.]]></description>
<link>http://www.oecd.org/edu/school/czechrepublicshouldfurtherdevelopitsframeworkprogrammeforpreschooleducationsaysoecd.htm</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 16:43:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[OECD Reviews of Evaluation and Assessment in Education: Norway 2011]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[This book provides, for Norway, an independent analysis from an international perspective of major issues facing the evaluation and assessment framework in education along with current policy initiatives and possible future approaches.]]></description>
<link>http://www.oecd.org/edu/oecdreviewsofevaluationandassessmentineducationnorway2011.htm</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[OECD Reviews of Evaluation and Assessment in Education: Denmark 2011]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[This book provides, for Australia, an independent analysis of major issues facing its educational evaluation and assessment framework, current policy initiatives, and possible future approaches.]]></description>
<link>http://www.oecd.org/edu/school/oecdreviewsofevaluationandassessmentineducationdenmark2011.htm</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[OECD Reviews of Evaluation and Assessment in Education: Sweden 2011]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[This book provides, for Sweden an independent analysis from an international perspective of major issues facing the evaluation and assessment framework in education, along with current policy initiatives and possible future approaches.]]></description>
<link>http://www.oecd.org/edu/school/oecdreviewsofevaluationandassessmentineducationsweden2011.htm</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Education at a Glance 2011: Country note – Italy]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The 2011 edition of Education at a Glance: OECD Indicators enables countries to see themselves in the light of other countries’ performance.]]></description>
<link>http://www.oecd.org/edu/skills-beyond-school/48669580.pdf</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Education at a Glance 2011: Country note – Mexico]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The 2011 edition of Education at a Glance: OECD Indicators enables countries to see themselves in the light of other countries’ performance.]]></description>
<link>http://www.oecd.org/edu/skills-beyond-school/48667287.pdf</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Education at a Glance 2011: Country note – Germany]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The 2011 edition of Education at a Glance: OECD Indicators enables countries to see themselves in the light of other countries’ performance.]]></description>
<link>http://www.oecd.org/edu/skills-beyond-school/48657384.pdf</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Education at a Glance 2011: Country note – United Kingdom]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The 2011 edition of Education at a Glance: OECD Indicators enables countries to see themselves in the light of other countries’ performance.]]></description>
<link>http://www.oecd.org/edu/skills-beyond-school/48657394.pdf</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Education at a Glance 2011: Country note – Japan]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The 2011 edition of Education at a Glance: OECD Indicators enables countries to see themselves in the light of other countries’ performance.]]></description>
<link>http://www.oecd.org/edu/skills-beyond-school/48657354.pdf</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Education at a Glance 2011: Country note – Greece]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The 2011 edition of Education at a Glance: OECD Indicators enables countries to see themselves in the light of other countries’ performance.]]></description>
<link>http://www.oecd.org/edu/skills-beyond-school/48657344.pdf</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Education at a Glance 2011: Country note – Estonia]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The 2011 edition of Education at a Glance: OECD Indicators enables countries to see themselves in the light of other countries’ performance.]]></description>
<link>http://www.oecd.org/edu/skills-beyond-school/48670002.pdf</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Education at a Glance 2011: Country note – Spain]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The 2011 edition of Education at a Glance: OECD Indicators enables countries to see themselves in the light of other countries’ performance.]]></description>
<link>http://www.oecd.org/edu/skills-beyond-school/48663662.pdf</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[OECD Reviews of Evaluation and Assessment in Education: Australia]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Evaluation and assessment policies are key in Australia’s national school reform agenda. The Australian approach combines the development of goals, monitoring and reporting at national level with local evaluation and assessment practices shaped by jurisdiction-level school improvement frameworks]]></description>
<link>http://www.oecd.org/edu/school/48519807.pdf</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Overcoming School Failure:  Background Report for the Czech Republic June 2011]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The Czech Republic has a long tradition of a highly differentiated education system. Tracking occurs very early.]]></description>
<link>http://www.oecd.org/edu/school/48631810.pdf</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Overcoming School Failure:  Spanish National Report May 2011]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The objective of this report is to describe the progress of the Spanish education system as regards policies towards equity and inclusion and towards reducing school failure in the past five years, taking as a reference the OECD’s Report (2007): No more failures: Ten Steps to Equity in Education.]]></description>
<link>http://www.oecd.org/edu/school/48631820.pdf</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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