Policy Brief: Cross-Border Higher Education and Development

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30-Jan-2008

Education is an essential foundation for personal, social and economic success in a globalised economy. But how can developing countries offer enough education, particularly quality tertiary education, ...

Policy Brief: Ten Steps to Equity in Education

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29-Jan-2008

Education plays a key role in determining how you spend your adult life – a higher level of education means higher earnings, better health, and a longer life. By the same token, the long-term social and ...

Policy Brief: Higher Education and Regions

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19-Sep-2007

In the globalising knowledge economy, OECD countries face competition in a number of markets. They are turning to knowledge-intensive products and services, which increases dependency on access to new ...

Policy Brief: Qualifications and Lifelong Learning

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30-Apr-2007

Learning one set of skills at school, technical college or university is no longer enough to carry people throughout their working life. But there is one basic skill that is becoming increasingly important ...

Policy Brief: Korea: Progress in Implementing Regulatory Reform

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19-Mar-2007

Regulatory reform is a priority in the effort to promote sustainable economic growth, complementing sound macroeconomic policies. It can help shift economic activity to higher value-added production and ...

Policy Brief : E-learning in Tertiary Education

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17-Jan-2006

E-learning is becoming increasingly prominent in tertiary education, with universities increasing provision and more students signing up. But is it actually changing the way universities teach and students ...

Policy Brief : Civil Society and the OECD

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25-Nov-2005

Globalisation leaves few people indifferent. OECD ministers take the view that the OECD’s role is to enable globalisation, make it inclusive and sustainable, and to seize the opportunities of open markets ...

Policy Brief: Formative Assessment: Improving Learning in Secondary Classrooms

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01-Nov-2005

Are pupils learning enough, and learning it well in secondary school classrooms – and how can you tell? Can schools and teachers not only measure their progress, but also identify and respond to their learning needs? Effective assessment is needed to provide answers to all these critical questions.

Policy brief: Internationalisation of higher education

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22-Aug-2004

Higher education has become increasingly international in the past decade as more and more students choose to study abroad, enrol in foreign educational programmes and institutions in their home country, or simply use the Internet to take courses at colleges or universities in other countries.

Focus

This book is the first volume in the Higher Education to 2030 series, which takes a forward-looking approach to analysing the impact of various contemporary trends on tertiary education systems.

Higher Education to 2030 (Vol. 1): Demography

Focus

This book proposes a value-added model of measuring which provides a more fair, precise and quantitative tool for assessing students’ progress.

Measuring Improvements in Learning Outcomes: Best Practices to Assess the Value-Added of Schools