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News & Events
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08-Oct-2010
This report addresses challenges in assessing the social outcomes of learning by providing a synthesis of the existing evidence, original data analyses and policy discussions.
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08-Oct-2010
What do we know about how people learn? How do young people’s motivations and emotions influence their learning? What does research show to be the benefits of group work, formative assessments, technology applications, or project-based learning and when are they most effective?
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25-Sep-2010
The need for good governance has dominated the debate on the effectiveness of higher education. The growing institutional autonomy and expansion of university missions have been accompanied by the emergence of governance arrangements and quality assurance guides, codes and set of principles. The report discusses the distinction between governance arrangements and quality guidelines, as well as the possible need to define appropriate guidance for institutions. A selection of governance arrangements and quality guidelines are in annex.
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25-Sep-2010
L’exigence de bonne gouvernance domine les débats sur l’efficacité de l’enseignement supérieur. Le développement de l’autonomie institutionnelle et l’extension des missions universitaires ont été accompagnés par l’émergence de cadres de gouvernance et de guides, de codes ou corpus de principes d’assurance qualité. Ce rapport étudie la distinction entre les cadres de gouvernance et les guides de qualité, et explore la possibilité de guider de manière adéquate pour les établissements. Une sélection de cadres de gouvernance et de guides de qualité est présentée en annexe.
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06-Aug-2010
The final version of the self-evaluation report for the Region of Lombardy (Italy) is now available. The report was prepared by Lombardy Regional Institute for Research(IReR) and a number of regional stakeholders, as an input to the OECD Review of Higher Education in Regional and City Development.
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30-Jul-2010
How best can planners and policy makers use research results on social capital, education and health to better inform policymaking? Should social capital be fostered at the community level, or through incentives to individuals? Does social capital improve community health,? What lessons can be learned?
Read more: Social Outcomes of Learning
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15-Jul-2010
The CELE Secretariat is pleased to announce that it has received 165 submissions from 34 different countries. An international jury has begun the selection process, and it will meet in August 2010 to make the final selection.
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15-Jul-2010
On 1 July 2010, national project leaders involved in the International Pilot Project on Evaluating Quality in Educational Spaces (EQES) – from Brazil, Greece, Mexico, New Zealand, Portugal and UK (England and Scotland) - met in Paris to discuss the results of the project.
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08-Jul-2010
This issue invities you to join the OECD roundtable for regions participating in the reviews or interested in them. It also includes brief reports of the review visit to Penang and gives updates on Paso del Norte (United States of American and Mexico) and Rotterdam (Netherlands).
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Events
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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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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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Focus
PISA 2009 Results presents the findings from the most recent PISA survey, which focused on reading and also assessed mathematics and science performance.
PISA 2009 Results
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This report will prove to be an invaluable resource for all those interested in the broad international picture of education, as well as for those wanting to know more about OECD work in this important domain.
Education Today 2010: The OECD Perspective
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A video series profiling policies and practices of education systems that demonstrate high or improving performance in the PISA tests
