11th Meeting of the OECD Network on Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC)- Presentations

- Data collection and monitoring, OECD, Paris 11-12 June 2012 - Presentations from the meeting

Quality Matters in Early Childhood Education and Care - New Zealand

This publication is intended to be a quick reference guide for anyone with a role to play in encouraging quality through New Zealand’s early childhood education and care (ECEC) curriculum.

Making the right connections

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.

Hooked to be connected!

Concerned parents are becoming more and more anxious as they watch their bright children getting completely absorbed by and attached to new mobile devices.

Quality Matters in Early Childhood Education and Care - Portugal

Portugal’s ECEC country report

Reviews of National Policies for Education: Higher Education in the Dominican Republic 2012

This OECD report provides an analysis of the higher education sector within the economic, social and political context of the Dominican Republic. It looks at access, quality and relevance, the effectiveness and governance of the system, its financing as well as its research and innovation capacity.

Older, wiser, better: ageing workforce and fast-track societies

Simple fact: older workers are leaving the labour force earlier than they did in the 60s and 70s. The retirement age declined steadily across OECD countries from the 1970s to the early 2000s. Over the past decade this drop has levelled off, with some countries experiencing a slight upturn. Despite this, apart from Japan and Korea, it is still significantly lower than in the 1960s and 1970s.

Registration for the Programme on Institutional Management in Higher Education (IMHE) General Conference 2012

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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