17-May-2017
English
What makes some of the largest companies in the world successful? According to consultant Simon Sinek in a very popular TedTalk it is because they start with the ‘why’.
15-May-2017
English
In 2014, over 3 million students in OECD countries – more than double the amount in 2000 – were studying outside their country of citizenship.
15-May-2017
English
In most countries with available data, public educational institutions charge different tuition fees for national and foreign students enrolled in the same programme. In Australia, Austria, Canada, New Zealand and the United States, foreign students pay on average about twice or more the tuition fees charged to national students.
12-May-2017
English
Despite people’s perceptions of us, we economists are neither futurologists, nor historians. But we do see trends that we try to interpret, by applying objectivity where subjectivity abounds, and using the (rather few) tools we have developed to address (very many) major social problems.
9-May-2017
English
One of the greatest challenge for new teachers, does not come from not knowing what to teach, but from not knowing how to teach what they know and how to manage a classroom in all its strange and exciting complexity.
9-May-2017
English
New teachers are more likely to feel prepared in the content of their subject field(s), rather than the pedagogy or classroom practice of their subject field(s).
4-May-2017
English
Globalisation is connecting people, cities, countries and continents, bringing together a majority of the world’s population in ways that vastly increase our individual and collective potential, and creating an integrated market in products and services.
4-mai-2017
Français
Dans un environnement international de plus en plus concurrentiel, les travailleurs doivent être dotés d’un éventail de compétences adapté pour faire en sorte que la mondialisation soit porteuse de créations d’emplois et de gains de productivité plutôt que de retombées négatives sur le plan économique et social, selon un nouveau rapport publié par l'OCDE.
4-May-2017
English
Since the 1990s, the world has entered a new phase of globalisation. Information and communication technology, trade liberalisation and lower transport costs have enabled firms and countries to fragment the production process into global value chains (GVCs). Many products are now designed in one country and assembled in another country from parts manufactured in several countries. Thirty percent of the value of exports of OECD countries comes from abroad. In this new context, GVCs and skills are more closely interrelated than ever. Skills play a key role in determining countries’ comparative advantages in GVCs. A lot of the opportunities and challenges brought about by GVCs are being affected by countries’ skills.
The OECD Skills Outlook 2017 shows how countries can make the most of global value chains, socially and economically, by investing in the skills of their populations. Applying a “whole of government” approach is crucial. Countries need to develop a consistent set of skills-related policies such as education, employment protection legislation, and migration policies, in coordination with trade and innovation policies. This report presents new analyses based on the Survey of Adult Skills and the Trade in Value Added Database. It also explains what countries would need to do to specialise in technologically advanced industries.
27-avril-2017
Français
En pleine controverse sur les bienfaits de la mondialisation, l’OCDE, dans un nouveau rapport, cherche à voir comment, selon le niveau et la nature des compétences de sa population active, un pays peut se révéler plus ou moins susceptible de tirer avantage, ou au contraire de faire les frais, des chaînes de production mondialisées.