Austria

Overcoming School Failure: Policies that Work - Austria Country Report

This project is organized to make the most of the OECD’s strengths—to provide a framework through which governments can compare experiences, seek responses to tackle common problems, and identify and share good practices.

Education: Korea tops new OECD PISA survey of digital literacy

Korea tops a new OECD PISA survey that tests how 15-year olds use computers and the Internet to learn. The next best performers were New Zealand, Australia, Japan, Hong-Kong China and Iceland.

Vocational Education and Training in Austria - Strengths, Challenges and Recommendations: Pointers for policy development (German translation)

Learning for Jobs: OECD Reviews of Vocational Education and Training - Austria

This review of vocational education and training (VET) in Austria is part of “Learning for Jobs”, the OECD policy study of VET, a programme of analytical work and individual country reviews designed to help countries make their VET systems more responsive to labour market needs.

Vocational Education and Training in Austria - Strengths, Challenges and Recommendations: Pointers for policy development

The Austrian VET system has a number of strengths: The dual system has many commendable features, with well-structured apprenticeships that integrate learning in schools and workplace training and youth unemployment rates are low.

Economic Policy Reforms: Going for Growth 2010 - Austria Country Note

This note is taken from Chapter 3 of Economic Policy Reforms: Going for Growth 2010.

1-to-1 Computing in Education: Current Practices, International Comparative Research Evidence and Policy Implications (22-24 February 2010 - Vienna, Austria)

This international meeting is hosted by the Austrian Ministry of Education and jointly organised by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the OECD Centre for Educational Research and Innovation, and the World Bank (WB).

Action needed to improve quality and relevance of vocational education and training, says OECD

Learning for Jobs, the initial report of the OECD policy review of vocational education and training, presents a set of policy recommendations to help countries make their vocational systems more responsive to labour market needs and boost economic growth.

Ergebnisse der OECD-Lehrerstudie in 23 Ländern

Drei von vier Lehrerinnen und Lehrern vermissen Anreize, die einen besseren Unterricht belohnen. Gleichzeitig wird aus Sicht der Lehrkräfte in drei von fünf Schulen der Unterricht durch unangebrachtes Verhalten der Schüler gestört.

Teacher effectiveness hampered by lack of incentives and bad behaviour in classrooms

Three out of four teachers feel they lack incentives to improve the quality of their teaching, while bad behaviour by students in the classroom disrupts lessons in three schools out of five, according to a new OECD report.