Education Policy Outlook - The Education Policy Outlook provides forward-thinking comparative analysis of educational policies and reforms, It brings together analysis of individual countries’ educational contexts, challenges, policies and comparative insight in the areas of trends, policies and reforms.

Learning from other countries’ experiences in education by Andreas Schleicher - Deputy Director and Special Advisor on Education Policy to the OECD's Secretary-General
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. The idea behind the series is to offer policy makers easily accessible profiles of countries’ education systems, and the policies adopted to improve those systems, that could inspire reforms at home.

Skills for the digital economy  - 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?

OECD Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) - The OECD Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) is an initiative of the OECD that assists governments in assessing, monitoring and analysing the level and distribution of skills among their adult populations as well as the extent of skills use in different contexts. It is a central component of the package of tools available to support countries develop, implement and evaluate policies that foster both the development of skills and the optimal use of existing skills.

Getting internationalisation right- by Andreas Schleicher Deputy Director for Education and Skills, Special Advisor on Education Policy to the OECD's Secretary General.
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.

Reviews of National Policies for Education: Quality Assurance in Higher Education in Chile 2013 - This report analyses the performance of the relatively young higher education quality assurance system (SINAC-ES) in Chile.

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15th OECD/Japan Seminar - Global Strategies for Higher Education-Global Trends and Rethinking the Role of Government (6-7 February 2013) - Over the last decades, globalization has affected many aspects of policy and practice, and education is no exception. Examples of the phenomena brought about by globalization in the field of higher education include growth of cross-border education cooperation, increased competition among educational institutions, development of regional collaboration and a focus on quality.

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. Special attention will be given to the role of government. This seminar will also approach several aspects of globalization in higher education by exploring the latest trends of regionalization and quality assurance.

OECD Education Today… and tomorrow (Barbara Ischinger, Director for Education) - If you want to know what we’ve been doing over the past year or so, I invite you to take a look at the latest edition of Education Today. It covers the most important results and policy recommendations that have emerged from our work in early childhood education, compulsory schooling, higher education and lifelong learning. It also discusses such overarching topics as equity of opportunity, the benefits of education, and innovation.

Education Today 2013 - The OECD Perspective - 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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Literacy, Numeracy and Problem Solving in Technology-Rich Environments - Framework for the OECD Survey of Adult Skills. A basic level of literacy and numeracy is essential for full participation in modern societies. While very few people in most of the advanced countries could be regarded as illiterate or innumerate, recent studies have shown that there are, in fact, significant numbers of people with poor skills.