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01-Dec-2008
The Australian Institute of Architects has awarded the Brisbane Girls Grammar School, featured in PEB Exchange, with the Sir Zelman Cowen Award for Public Architecture. The honour went specifically to the school’s Cherrell Hirst Creative Learning Centre.
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01-Dec-2008
Higher education institutions can make an important contribution to economic, social and cultural development in their cities and regions. In early 2008, OECD/IMHE issued a call for regions interested in the 2nd round of reviews of HEIs in regional and city development. By mid-November 2008, the following regions had fully committed to the review: City of Berlin (Germany), the state of Veracruz (Mexico), the Galilee (Israel), Bío Bío Region (Chile) and The Paso del Norte region (US-Mexico).
For more information, see the website , and contact: jaana.puukka@oecd.org
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28-Nov-2008
OECD countries have commended Portugal for progress made towards modernising its tertiary education system. Over the past three years, the Portuguese government has implemented reforms to encourage institutions to be more responsive to the needs of society and the economy. These give institutions more autonomy and room for manoeuvre but require them, in return, to be more clearly accountable to society.
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24-Nov-2008
University league tables are fashionable, but should not be taken as accurate measures of the quality of education. The OECD is investigating other tools to measure performance. This was what participants, including policymakers and educators, heard at the recent IMHE General Conference. These issues and more are explored in a recent article from the OECD Observer magazine. Read more..
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13-Nov-2008
OECD economies have experienced the transformation from their traditional industrial base to the knowledge era, in which learning and innovation are central. Yet, many of today's schools have not caught up: they continue to operate as they did in the earlier decades of the 20th century. How can learning within and outside schools be reconfigured in environments that foster the deeper knowledge and skills so crucial in the 21st century?
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28-Oct-2008
This conference took stock of the lessons learned over the decade of "Schooling for Tomorrow" and looked ahead through the major trends impacting on the future. The conference was also an opportunity to learn about the Finnish experience with futures thinking in education complemented by visits to 21st century learning environments in and around Helsinki.
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24-Oct-2008
Designing school buildings to respond to change is not a new idea. But perhaps what is different today is the kind and degree of change which we have to anticipate. The OECD is carrying out projects that can help in the planning and design of future educational facilities – exploring trends in education and studying innovative learning environments.
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21-Oct-2008
Kia ora. A moving traditional Maori welcome ceremony marked the opening of an international conference in Auckland on 17-20 August 2008 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”.
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21-Oct-2008
School buildings were the most heavily affected structure during the great Wenchuan earthquake, and student and teacher populations suffered heavy losses of life. In the wake of the earthquake, the OECD, and PEB in particular, offered to help China improve earthquake safety in schools.
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21-Oct-2008
Spaces and places for innovation and knowledge transfer, and spaces for interaction were the themes of a PEB presentation to the General Conference of the OECD Programme on Institutional Management in Higher Education, and to the launch workshop for the second phase of the Reviews of Higher Education in Regional Development.
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Events
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from 25-Aug-2005 to 26-Aug-2005
Higher education institutions, whether public or private, and regardless of national structures of finance and governance, are facing a number of challenges related to strategies for and management of human resources. This conference dealt with a variety of new issues and problems. When ready, the papers presented at the conference are posted on the web.
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from 26-Jun-2005 to 28-Jun-2005
The OECD/Canada/Alberta Conference on E-Learning in Post-Secondary Education: Policies, Practices, and Research was held in Calgary, Canada, 26-28 June, 2005. The conference, jointly organised by the OECD's Centre for Educational Research and Innovation (CERI) , Industry Canada, Human Resources and Skills Development Canada, and Alberta Advanced Education , was intended to: discuss key policy issues in e-learning in post-secondary education; provide a forum for sharing good practices and challenges, and identify opportunities for research and collaboration.
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from 06-Jun-2005 to 07-Jun-2005
The first workshop of countries participating in the OECD Thematic Review of Tertirary Education will be hosted by Switzerland and will take place in Berne, on 6-7 June 2005. The purpose of the workshop is to provide an opportunity to exchange information early on among participating countries about organising the work, to discuss plans for the Review, and to exchange ideas about key emerging issues in tertiary education policy.
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Third Meeting of the Lifelong Learning Network
from 21-Jan-2005 to 22-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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