Fifth Meeting of the Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) Network, OECD, Paris, 11-12 May 2009

The Fifth Meeting of the ECEC Network brought together 46 participants representing 22 countries as well as international organisations and independent researchers. The meeting was designed to discuss the theme “Workforce, Qualifications and Development” in Early Childhood Education and Care.

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Discussions were organised around the following three areas of focus: the importance of school leadership and management, the effect of teacher quality, the establishment of incentives and stimuli to improve teachers' performance and the quality of schools.

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Migrant education is receiving increased attention in all OECD countries. The proportion of students who are foreign-born or have foreign-born parents now exceeds 10% in Germany, Belgium, Austria, France, the Netherlands and Sweden, and is above 20% in Switzerland, Australia, New Zealand, Canada

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The PISA 2006 Technical Report describes the methodology underlying the PISA 2006 survey. It examines additional features related to the implementation of the project at a level of detail that allows researchers to understand and replicate its analyses.