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News & Events
News
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18-Sep-2008
OECD/IMHE reviews of HE in regional development were launched on 10-11 September 2008. Delegates from ten regions participated in the Workshop opened by Aart De Geus, OECD Deputy Secretary General . The regions that have made a commitment to join the review process in 2008-2010 are: Berlin (Germany), Bio Bio region (Chile), Campinas (Brazil), the Galilee (Israel), Rotterdam (Netherlands), Southern Arizona (US) and Veracruz (Mexico). New regions will be considered until the end of November 2008.
Read more about higher education and regions
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16-Sep-2008
By joining IMHE you will immediately profit from being linked to an internationally recognised network and kept up to date with the latest innovations in education and in managing higher education institutions. Your priviledged connection to the OECD will engage you directly in helping in influencing this international organisation on how to tackle key policy issues to improve institutional leadership management and governance in higher education.
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28-Aug-2008
Good teachers are the number one factor for excellence in student achievement but next comes high-quality leadership. Governments must do more to recruit and train the best people to run schools, according to a new OECD publication - Improving School Leadership.
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28-Aug-2008
Good teachers are the number one factor for excellence in student achievement but next comes high-quality leadership. Governments must do more to recruit and train the best people to run schools, according to a new OECD publication.
In today’s education world, school principals have a vital role to play in modernising entire education systems, says Improving School Leadership, a two-volume report drawing on evidence from 19 countries.
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02-Jul-2008
Read the latest news information of the Institutional Management in higher education programme. This issue deals with tertiary review, higher education and their regions, the assessment of higher education outcomes...
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PEB in China
09-Jun-2008
PEB was part of an OECD delegation to Beijing for a conference hosted by the Ministry of Education and Beijing Normal University on “Education Decision Making and Indicators”. This was an opportunity to discuss aspects of education facilities and to exhibit for the first time the new PEB Compendium posters which were specially translated for the event.
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Events
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on 09-Sep-2008
OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría will launch the 2008 edition of OECD’s annual Education at a Glance at a news conference at 11.00 a.m. on 9 September 2008 in Paris. This rich compendium of comparable statistics provides valuable underpinning for policy debate and decisions by education authorities.
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from 11-Sep-2008 to 12-Sep-2008
A workshop on 11-12 September 2008 explored how the OECD can contribute to the development of strategies, curricula, and sustainable schools for the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (2005-2014).
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from 02-Jun-2008 to 03-Jun-2008
As part of the New Millennium Learners Project (NML), the OECD's Centre for Educational Research and Innovation (CERI), together with the Norwegian Ministry of Education and Research organised an Expert Meeting on Gender, ICT and Education on 2-3 June in Oslo, Norway.
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from 21-May-2008 to 23-May-2008
What better place for 140 delegates to discuss how changing higher education needs will impact on facilities than the campus of the Helsinki University of Technology at Otaniemi in Espoo, Finland, designed by Alvar Aalto? What better place for 22 speakers to explore the future of universities than in Finland where hotly debated proposals for university reform could have a profound effect on facilities and buildings used by universities? PEB's "Higher Education: Spaces and Places" conference took place on 21-23 May 2008; a full report will soon be available.
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from 03-Apr-2008 to 04-Apr-2008
In today’s knowledge-driven global economy, tertiary education is more important than ever to help countries achieve their economic and social goals. Education authorities from around the world will meet at an OECD conference Lisbon on 3-4 April 2008 to discuss how to ensure that tertiary education systems best serve these wider public purposes.
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from 17-Aug-2008 to 20-Aug-2008
PEB, in co-operation with the New Zealand Ministry of Education, held an international conference entitled “Inclusion and Integration through Innovation: The Role of 21st Century Learning Environments in Promoting Social Participation and Access to Education for Learners with Special Needs” in Auckland, New Zealand. The programme is available here.
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