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News & Events
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08-Jun-2006
As in many OECD countries, the Czech Republic is experiencing falling student numbers in primary and secondary schools but rising demand for degree-level courses. The OECD Economic Survey of the Czech Republic highlights the problems of coping with school closures on the one hand and, on the other, of ensuring the tertiary sector copes with expansion.
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18-May-2006
To make more resources available for universities, English-speaking countries increase tuition charging based on loans repaid by graduates. But would that discourage people from studying if it comes on top of high income taxes? The OECD Economic Survey of Denmark presents an adapted model.
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07-Apr-2006
School buildings have a crucial contribution to make to raising educational achievement. Designing high performance school buildings for the 21st century for all children is a shared concern amongst OECD countries.
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15-Mar-2006
Join our interactive brain and learning forums for teaching practitioners. Current hot threads are on learning math problems and bilingual/intercultural teaching.
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Review of Education in the Dominican Republic
22-Feb-2006
In December 2005, site visits were carried out for a review on education in the Dominican Republic. This review was requested and financed by the Dominican authorities. The international team who conducted the site visits included experts from the USA, Ireland, France, Chile and Brazil.
A meeting to discuss the review will take place toward the end of 2006 and a publication will follow.
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Peer Review of Education in Mauritius
22-Feb-2006
In 2005, the ADEA and the Ministry of Education of Mauritius signed a Framework for Co-operation for a peer review exercise in Mauritius. It aims to develop recommendations for the further improvement of education provision in terms of Mauritian national goals. The recommendations are from the Dakar Framework of Education for All and the Millennium Development Goals.
A site visit of international experts from Benin, Kenya, Nigeria, OECD and UNESCO was carried out in November 2005.
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14-Feb-2006
The Programme on Institutional Management in Higher Education (IMHE) is an international forum for analysis and discussion, networking and sharing of best practices for institutional leaders, policy makers, researchers and experts
helping higher education institutions to meet new challenges.
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10-Feb-2006
As part of the OECD project on "Education development for Disabled and at Risk Students in South Eastern Europe", education ministries have been invited to participate in activities to address capacity building in the field of statistics and data gathering. Country-specific micro-projects will be implemented in 2006/2007.
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