OECD Review of Financing and Quality Assurance Reforms in Higher Education in The People's Republic of China

Over the last fifty years, the People’s Republic of China has, in the face of dramatic social, political and economic challenges, made enormous strides in developing an educational system, from pre-school through post-graduate levels, that attempts to deal with the dual responsibilities of the equity of educational access and the effectiveness and relevance of the teaching-learning process. In the last decade, this education system

Thematic Review on Adult Learning - United States : Background Report

The main purpose of the thematic review on adult learning is to understand adults’ access and participation in education and training and to enhance policies and approaches to increase incentives for adults to undertake learning activities in OECD countries.

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OECD/UNESCO Study Identifies Regional Disparities in Student Performance

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OECD/UNESCO Studie ortet regionale Unterschiede bei den Schülerleistungen

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Réseaux d'innovation: Vers de nouveaux modèles de gestion des écoles et des systèmes

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Promoting Equity Through ICT in Education: Projects, Problems, Prospects (OECD/Hungary Workshop, Budapest, Hungary, 12-13 June 2003)

Promoting equity through ICT is one of the most important issues any educational government has to handle while developing computer culture in schools. In order to realise this objective, we need a model of the eLearner of the first decade of the new millennium. This “digital student” is similar and at the same time very different from those we encounter in the classrooms of today.

The Roles of Tertiary Colleges and Institutes: Trade-offs in Restructuring Postsecondary Education

In many developed countries, the landscape of tertiary education has changed dramatically over the past three decades. Many countries have established, or substantially expanded, institutions that are clear alternatives to traditional universities — institutions I call, for lack of any better term, tertiary colleges for those with both academic and occupational programs, and tertiary institutes for those with occupational programs