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Reflections of the Lifelong Learning Network Meeting, Tokyo 2005
14-Jun-2005
View the interesting reflections by two educators present at the Lifelong Learning Network meeting which was held in Tokyo in January 2005, and the response from a renowned neuroscientist.
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09-Jun-2005
Teaching and research in Danish universities are of high quality. The number of Nobel prizes awarded to Denmark is outstanding. Danish universities are among the best resourced among OECD countries. But they need to change and develop to respond to rapidly changing demands placed on them.
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The OECD's programme on Institutional Management in Higher Education (IMHE) is pleased to announce the election of a new Board. The persons elected are:
07-Apr-2005
Prof. Dr. Marijk van der WENDE (CHEPS - the Netherlands) - Chair
Mr. Serge BODSON (Université Libre de Bruxelles - Belgium) - Deputy Chair
Mr. Kari SUOKKO (University of Helsinki - Finland) - Deputy Chair
Prof. José-Ginéz MORA (Universidad Politecnica de Valencia - Spain) - Deputy Chair
Dr. Malcolm WINTON (University of Salford - United Kingdom) - Deputy Chair
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05-Apr-2005
This report looks at the extent to which the schools that students attend make a difference in performance; the relative impact of school climate, school policies and school resources on quality and equity; the relationship between the structure of education systems and educational quality and equity; and the effect of decentralisation and privatisation on school performance.
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05-Apr-2005
A report on the symposium on the design of rehabilitation software for dyscalculia held at INSERM on September 20, 2003. The aim was to bring together scientific specialists in the fields of both dyscalculia and dyslexia in order to exchange their expertise and experience. Remedial tools that have already been pilot tested (and their outcomes), and others (notably computer software programmes) that are currently under development, in order to combat dyscalculia and dyslexia were presented by scientists from Austria, Finland, France, the UK and the USA.
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The Third Meeting of the Lifelong Learning Network Meeting
07-Feb-2005
The 3rd meeting of the Lifelong Learning network of OECD/CERI’s Learning Sciences and Brain Research project took place at the RIKEN Brain Science Institute in Wako-Shi, Saitama, Japan on 21-22 January 2005. The meeting brought together some 30 experts, mixing neuroscience and educational researchers with a few practitioners and policymakers. Participants were present from Australia, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Japan, Netherlands, Spain, UK and USA.
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18-Jan-2005
About one in five 15-year-olds in OECD countries can be considered a reflective, communicative problem solver. These students are able to not only analyse a situation and make decisions, they are also capable of managing multiple conditions simultaneously. In some countries, more than a third of students reach this high level of problem-solving competencies.
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01-Dec-2004
A full report of the 2nd Literacy and Numeracy Networks Meeting held in El Escorial, Spain in March 2004, is now available.
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12-Oct-2004
What makes school systems perform? In 2002, the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research launched an innovative, multilateral study aimed at linking the results from the OECD PISA 2000 survey to qualitative evidence on important public policy measures. This report presents key results from the research.
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