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22-Aug-2006
This country note on Iceland forms part of the OECD Thematic Review of Tertiary Education. This is a collaborative project to assist the design and implementation of tertiary education policies which contribute to the realisation of social and economic objectives of countries.
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04-Aug-2006
The February 2006 issue of the journal on educational building is now available in Spanish.
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02-Jun-2006
The G8 and OECD work very closely together. Top OECD officials meet periodically with the personal representatives of the G8 leaders (Sherpas and sous-Sherpas) to discuss current and future OECD work related to G8 issues. For this year's Summit in Saint Petersburg, Russia, the top priorities laid down by President Vladimir Putin are global security, education and fighting infectious diseases. The OECD, and the International Energy Agency, have been co-operating very closely with the Russian presidency in the preparation of the G8 discussions.
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07-Apr-2006
School buildings have a crucial contribution to make to raising educational achievement. Designing high performance school buildings for the 21st century for all children is a shared concern amongst OECD countries.
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27-Mar-2006
This country note was prepared as part of the OECD thematic review of equity in education across member countries. The review aims to assist countries in developing and implementing effective policies for equity in education. It examines the contribution of different phases of education to lifetime equity and inequity and looks, in particular, at socio-economic, ethnic, regional and gender issues. It is primarily concerned with equality of opportunity while recognising that relative equality of outcomes is often used as an indicator of equality of opportunity.
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15-Mar-2006
Join our interactive brain and learning forums for teaching practitioners. Current hot threads are on learning math problems and bilingual/intercultural teaching.
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Review of Education in the Dominican Republic
22-Feb-2006
In December 2005, site visits were carried out for a review on education in the Dominican Republic. This review was requested and financed by the Dominican authorities. The international team who conducted the site visits included experts from the USA, Ireland, France, Chile and Brazil.
A meeting to discuss the review will take place toward the end of 2006 and a publication will follow.
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Peer Review of Education in Mauritius
22-Feb-2006
In 2005, the ADEA and the Ministry of Education of Mauritius signed a Framework for Co-operation for a peer review exercise in Mauritius. It aims to develop recommendations for the further improvement of education provision in terms of Mauritian national goals. The recommendations are from the Dakar Framework of Education for All and the Millennium Development Goals.
A site visit of international experts from Benin, Kenya, Nigeria, OECD and UNESCO was carried out in November 2005.
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14-Feb-2006
The Programme on Institutional Management in Higher Education (IMHE) is an international forum for analysis and discussion, networking and sharing of best practices for institutional leaders, policy makers, researchers and experts
helping higher education institutions to meet new challenges.
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