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News & Events
News
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12-Mar-2009
A professor of a well-known business school in Spain once remarked that the one thing people forget to do in a crisis is “think”. He could have added “think innovatively”. For 40 years, that is precisely what OECD’s Centre for Educational Research and Innovation (CERI) has been doing: helping educators and policymakers think and so better tackle challenges and prepare for the future.
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10-Mar-2009
In some respects, Spain has joined the ranks of countries with a modern, responsive and creative system of tertiary education. But the tertiary system must accelerate the pace of reform to respond to the social and economic pressures facing Spain.
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05-Mar-2009
In recent years, Japan has made significant progress in modernising its tertiary education system but reforms of the system must continue to respond to current social and economic pressures in Japan.
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05-Mar-2009
05/03/2009 – Like many other countries, China faces the dilemma of expanding its tertiary education system within a tight fiscal constraint. Special challenges in China include the unprecedented scale in student numbers and the rapidly rising aspirations of students and parents for upward social mobility through education.
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05-Feb-2009
The OECD Council approved last month the transformation of the Programme on Educational Building (PEB) into the Centre for Effective Learning Environments (CELE).
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26-Jan-2009
On 12-14 November 2008, the City of Guanajuato, Mexico, welcomed local and international experts to exchange knowledge and experience on the development of school buildings.
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26-Jan-2009
The OECD Centre for Effective Learning Environments (CELE) and the European Investment Bank launch a joint project on strategic investment planning for educational infrastructure.
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18-Dec-2008
This issue is entitled "Breaking ranks: assessing quality in higher education".
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Events
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from 06-Nov-2006 to 08-Oct-2006
This Seminar is in the core CERI work on futures thinking and the Schooling for Tomorrow project. The Seminar will explore and develop as the over-arching seminar theme the connections between futures thinking, on the one hand, and governance, policy formulation and decision-making in education, on the other.
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Additional conferences and seminars related to educational building.
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from 12-Oct-2006 to 13-Oct-2006
L’OCDE s’est engagée, depuis 2002, dans une série d’activités visant à promouvoir la recherche dans les universités russes et à améliorer la gestion de la propriété intellectuelle en partenariat avec le ministère de l’éducation et des sciences. La réunion de 2006 aura lieu les 12 et 13 octobre à Tomsk et traitera tout particulièrement des échanges de pratiques couronnées de succès entre les universités russes et les universités des pays membres de l’OCDE.
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from 12-Oct-2006 to 13-Oct-2006
The OECD has been engaged, since 2002, in a series of activities to promote research in Russian universities and to improve the management of intellectual property in partnership with the Ministry of Education and Science. The 2006 meeting will take place on 12-13 October in Tomsk and will specifically address exchanges of successful practices between Russian universities and OECD member country universities.
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from 27-Jun-2006 to 28-Jun-2006
Ministers of Higher Education from OECD countries and invited observers met in Athens on 27-28 June 2006 to discuss how to ensure that quality, equity and efficiency characterise all aspects of higher education.
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from 24-Oct-2005 to 25-Oct-2005
The first Forum on the theme of The Challenges for Education in a Global Economy, co-hosted with the Chilean Ministry of Education, was held in Santiago on 24-25 October 2005. This event drew on the networks of education officials and experts established since 1991 through the Directorate for Education’s Programme for Co-operation with non OECD Economies.
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Orthographes transparentes vs non-transparentes et apprentissage de la lecture : un atelier OCDE
from 29-Sep-2005 to 30-Sep-2005
Cet atelier été réservé aux experts invités à St John’s College, Cambridge, les 29 et 30 septembre 2005. Il été co-organisé par le Centre des Neurosciences en Éducation de l’Université de Cambridge.
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from 22-Sep-2005 to 23-Sep-2005
OECD Education Chief Executives met in Copenhagen 22-23 September 2005 to identify the education policy issues with which they expected to be dealing in the next 3-5 years. The three broad topics for discussion were: quality, equity and efficiency; lifelong learning and the employment challenge; the challenges of globalisation
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OECD Workshop on Learning to Read: Shallow vs Non-Shallow Orthographies
from 29-Sep-2005 to 30-Sep-2005
This OECD workshop was held at St John's College, Cambridge, on 29-30 September 2005 and was co-hosted by the Centre for Neuroscience in Education at Cambridge University.
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from 14-Sep-2005 to 15-Sep-2005
On 14 and 15 September 2005, the third OECD-conference on Evidence Based Policy Research took place in The Hague, Netherlands. The conference explored how bridges can be built between researchers, policy makers and educational practitioners by using evidence based research to improve policy making. Focus was on the role of brokerage agencies (i.e., institutions, programmes, or other mechanisms) designed to improve linkages between research and policy concerns and act as bridges in a national or international context (for example, the EPPI-Centre in the UK).
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