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News & Events
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14-Sep-2009
The OECD Programme on Institutional Management in Higher Education (IMHE) is looking for contributions for their What Works Conference on Quality of Teaching in Higher Education, 12-13 October 2009. This is a valuable opportunity for researchers, practitioners, academic leaders, students, educational developers, quality units and heads of services to showcase their experiences and research in the field. Deadline: Monday, 28 September 2009. Contact: fabrice.henard@oecd.org.
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08-Sep-2009
Growing advantages for the better educated and likely continuing high levels of unemployment as economies move out of recession will provide more and more young people with strong incentives to stay on in education. Governments need to take account of this in planning education policies, according to the latest edition of the OECD’s annual Education at a Glance.
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31-Jul-2009
We are pleased to announce that the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso has been accepted as a member of IMHE, becoming the first university from Chile to join the Programme. Chile is one of the accession candidate countries and participates in 17 committees and working groups within the OECD. Rector Alfonso Muga visited the OECD and IMHE last May, together with a high level Chilean delegation. The University expects to benefit from IMHE membership through enhanced collaboration with universities worldwide and access and exposure to international expertise.
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22-Jul-2009
This issue invites you to join the OECD roundtable for regions participating in the reviews or interested in them. It also includes brief reports of the first two previsits to Berlin and the Bío Bío region and invites you to register in EducationToday – OECD's Education Lighthouse.
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09-Jul-2009
For the first time, the government presents a White Paper to the Parliament focusing exclusively on the Quality of Kindergartens in Norway. Three main aims are presented in the White paper : Ensure equity and high quality in all kindergartens, strengthen the kindergarten as a learning area, and that kindergarten should offer all children the possibility to participate in an inclusive community.
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03-Jul-2009
This meeting will take stock of progress made in the regions involved in the 2nd round of the OECD reviews of HE in regional and city development. It is also open to regions and HEIs who have joined the 3rd round or are planning to do so.
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26-Jun-2009
Get the latest news from the Programme on Institutional Management in Higher Education. This issue talks about Vocational Education and Training (VET)’s response to the financial crisis, as well as institutional governance and quality assurance, with updates on the international assessment of higher education learning outcomes (AHELO) and the reviews on higher education in regional and city development.
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22-Jun-2009
To get a picture of the impact of the current economic and financial crisis on educational building programmes so far, the OECD Centre for Effective Learning Environments (CELE) has been conducting a survey of member countries and regions. The survey focuses on three main issues: the impact of the crisis on publicly funded projects, the impact on projects funded by private finance initiatives or through a public-private partnership, and the extent to which the crisis has affected the construction industry’s ability to build schools.
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18-Jun-2009
Those responsible for the planning of vocational education and training (VET) institutions face some specific challenges: for example, maintaining and improving specialised equipment, or integrating the latest technology. The Governing Board of the Programme on Educational Building (PEB) discussed some of the issues at a special session in November 2008.
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Focus
PISA 2009 Results presents the findings from the most recent PISA survey, which focused on reading and also assessed mathematics and science performance.
PISA 2009 Results
Focus
This report will prove to be an invaluable resource for all those interested in the broad international picture of education, as well as for those wanting to know more about OECD work in this important domain.
Education Today 2010: The OECD Perspective
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A video series profiling policies and practices of education systems that demonstrate high or improving performance in the PISA tests
