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News & Events
News
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09-Feb-2012
Governments should invest more in disadvantaged schools and students to ensure that everyone gets a fair chance, according to a new OECD report.
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31-Jan-2012
by Ben Levin, Professor University of Toronto and Canada Research Chair in Education Leadership and Policy
Improving equity in student outcomes remains a critical challenge for every country in the OECD. Even those countries with the lowest levels of inequity must still be concerned with gaps in outcomes that are not related to students’ motivation and capacity, while in other countries the inequities are so large as to pose a fundamental challenge to ongoing security and prosperity.
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31-Jan-2012
Despite significant increases in spending on child care and education during the last decade, PISA scores suggest that educational performance remains static, uneven and strongly related to parents’ income and background. Better educational performance could improve labour market outcomes, raise growth, lower the consequences of a disadvantaged background and increase social mobility.
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30-Jan-2012
The country reports in this series provide, from an international perspective, an independent analysis of major issues facing the evaluation and assessment framework, current policy initiatives, and possible future approaches. This series forms part of the OECD Review on Evaluation and Assessment Frameworks for Improving School Outcomes.
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23-Jan-2012
Governments should establish quality standards and goals in early childhood education and care in order to boost child learning and development, according to a new OECD report.
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23-Jan-2012
As Minister of Education in Norway I am happy to be hosting the OECD roundtable conference Starting Strong: Implementing policies for high-quality Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC). Providing all children with high quality early childhood education and care is an investment in the future and provides a great benefit for both the individual and society
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20-Jan-2012
The Quality Toolbox is intended to present "practical solutions" for anyone with a role to play in encouraging quality in ECEC. It presents five policy levers that are likely to enhance quality, underpinned by the international research base and country experience.
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20-Jan-2012
In today’s global economy, countries need high-quality education systems that will teach their citizens the skills necessary to meet the challenges of tomorrow. This series of videos, produced jointly by the OECD and the Pearson Foundation, highlights initiatives being taken by education authorities around the world to help school students do better.
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20-Jan-2012
Get the latest news of the Programme on Institutional Management in Higher Education. This issue focuses on the current issues in higher education and includes a brief overview on the global economy and on the region of Lombardy, as well as information on topics to be covered by the General Conference in September.
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17-Jan-2012
Notwithstanding recent progress, Chile should make further efforts to improve the quality of education and ensure more equal access to enhance productivity performance and lower inequality.
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Events
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from 14-Mar-2012 to 15-Mar-2012
The U.S. Department of Education, Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and Education International (EI), the global federation of teacher unions, will again join U.S.-based education partners—the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), Asia Society, the Council of Chief State School Officers(CCSSO), the National Education Association (NEA), and public broadcaster WNET—to hold the second International Summit on the Teaching Profession: Preparing Teachers and Developing School Leaders.
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from 12-Apr-2012 to 13-Apr-2012
"What Works" Conference on Internationalisation for Job Creation and Economic Growth, New York City, organised with the State University of New York
This conference will examine the key role multiple actors play together in tackling the effects of the global financial crisis and fostering recovery policies, especially job creation, innovation, and wealth generation.
Register now at: http://www.suny.edu/global/strategicinitiatives/oecdconference.cfm. Early bird rate until 8 March 2012.
www.oecd.org/edu/imhe/whatworks
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from 22-Feb-2012 to 24-Feb-2012
Organised by OECD/CELE, University of Turku, Municipality of Kaarina, and Finnish National Board of Education, this conference will bring together a dynamic range of local and regional players from universities, local businesses and school communities to discuss the catalysts and drivers for transforming today's learning environments into dynamic learning communities of the future. For further information, consult the conference web site at http://congress.utu.fi/CELE2012/ or contact: Hannah.vonAhlefeld@oecd.org.
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from 16-May-2011 to 17-May-2011
University rankings make the headlines every year and are closely scrutinized by students, institutional leaders, policy-makers and employers. Whether respected or condemned, they occupy a role in the perception of higher education institutions globally.
This forum will contribute to the on-going debate by providing an opportunity for representatives of the most widely observed and influential University rankings to engage in an exciting and vibrant exchange with policy-makers and key higher education stakeholders on the merits and shortcomings of rankings and the uses made of them.
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A key challenge for governments is to meet the changing needs of education within the constraints of tighter budgets. As governments seek to find ways of improving value for money from PPP agreements that can last over 25 years, this conference will explore the key issues behind successful PPPs in educational infrastructure, drawing on the expertise from different countries, the European Investment Bank and other institutions. For more information, see the web site (www.bettervalue4schools.gr) or contact Hannah von Ahlefeld (Hannah.vonAhlefeld@oecd.org).
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CELE is pleased to offer its members and associate participants the opportunity to participate in a series of live web conferences. The aim of these conferences is to stimulate exchange of ideas on the latest topics of interest to CELE members.
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from 05-Dec-2011 to 06-Dec-2011
Le prochain événement sur les innovations qui marchent sera une conférence organisé les 5 et 6 décembre 2011 à l'Université CETYS, Mexicali, Mexique.
Cette conférence reflètera les conclusions des examens institutionnels d’IMHE sur la qualité de l’enseignement (en cours) et abordera les interrogations plus larges à l’échelle de l’institution et des politiques nationales pour le soutien à la qualité de l’enseignement et de l’apprentissage dans l’enseignement supérieur.
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from 05-Dec-2011 to 06-Dec-2011
The next "What Works" event is a conference that will take place on 5-6 December 2011 at CETYS University, Mexicali, Mexico. The Conference will reflect on the findings of the IMHE institutional reviews on quality teaching (underway) and discuss broader issues on institution-wide and national policies supporting quality of teaching and learning in higher education.
For the meeting presentation, click here.
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on 01-Apr-2011
IMHE’s new initiative on managing internationalisation will be launched at a workshop to be held on Friday 1 April 2011 at the OECD Conference Centre.
The fundamental question is: What for you is/are the most important/useful issues for IMHE to address in the area of managing internationalisation?
This meeting is open exclusively to IMHE members.
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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
Focus
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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