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News & Events
News
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17-Jan-2012
The concept of a stay-at-home parent seems outdated. Who can afford not to work these days? So what are kids up to during those precious, formative early years after their parents go back to work and before compulsory school begins around age 5 or 6? Who are the people we turn to for help in the immensely important role of raising our young children? And can we value them as much as we depend on them?
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13-Jan-2012
This OECD Conference will enable an international group of scientists from many disciplines to share their findings and ideas in an interactive forum that includes educational practitioners and policy-makers with a goal to encourage widespread innovation that integrates international discoveries and educational practices and inventive policy changes.
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10-Jan-2012
While it is important for children to be just children, the early years are also especially formative and important for children to develop skills and competencies. The importance and value of good quality care and education for children is becoming increasingly clear, and have shown to impact things as diverse as creativity and life-time earnings.
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03-Jan-2012
This is the time of year when a lot of us resolve to commit ourselves to self-improvement plans of greater or lesser magnitude. Spend more time reading? On the list. Eat better? Ditto. Reform the education system? Whoa—nice idea; but isn’t that a bit too ambitious? What is it about education reform that all-too-often turns resolve into sighs and resignation? If countries really want to keep that resolution, here’s a suggestion: invite teachers to get involved
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21-Dec-2011
OECD countries and a number of partner countries are currently implementing the Programme for the Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) that will assess key skills in the adult population, how these skills are used at work and how improved skills translate into better economic and social outcomes. While PIAAC sets new standards both methodologically and in terms of the coverage of countries, important elements of it build on the Adult Literacy and Life Skills Survey (ALLS) that was developed by Statistics Canada. The publication Literacy for Life presents new analyses from ALLS.
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24-Nov-2011
This new CERI project Education and Social Progress (EPS) is conceived to analyse the role cognitive and non-cognitive skills play in fostering measures of well-being and social progress in OECD countries and identify how skills that matter can be better developed in formal, non-formal and informal learning environments including family, school and the community.
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21-Nov-2011
The new brochure highlights current CERI work on educational research for 2011-12 and covers the following projects in progress: Governing Complex Education Systems, Innovation Strategy for Education and Training, Education and Social Progress, Innovative Learning Environments, and Innovative Teaching for Effective Learning.
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08-Nov-2011
The OECD report analyses how Lombardy can face the long-term challenges arising from an ageing population, immigration and slow adaptation of practices and technologies that could enhance productivity. The report outlines how HEIs can assist Lombardy in dealing with the strong global competition by attracting and retaining international talent and raising educational attainment in the region.
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08-Nov-2011
This OECD report explores how universities and colleges in the Galilee can fuel local growth by developing relevant skills and improving educational attainment levels across the multi-ethnic, multi-religious population. While the region is characterized by a low skills/low wage economy, the report outlines how HEIs can leverage the current economic base to generate employment and promote new business formation.
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Events
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from 15-Sep-2010 to 16-Sep-2010
This event attracted 90 participants from 23 countries, including representatives from HEIs, regional governments, OECD country delegations, OECD and international organisations such as the EU, UNESCO IIEP, World Bank and Lumina Foundation. The meeting provided opportunities for shared learning between the cities and regions taking part in the OECD reviews of HE in regional and city development to discuss the key issues arising from the reviews, such as widening access and talent attraction, regional innovation, Green Growth and urban regeneration. The presentations are available online.
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from 10-Feb-2011 to 11-Feb-2011
This conference will bring together representatives, mainly from universities and national, regional and local governments from the participating regions and will launch the final synthesis report of the second round of the OECD reviews of Higher Education in Regional and City Development. This international conference will be jointly organised with the Regional Government of Andalusia and the University of Seville.
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The launch event for CELE’s flagship publication Designing for Education: Compendium of Exemplary Educational Facilities 2011 will commemorate OECD’s anniversary by bringing together top designers and educators in a two-hour webcast to celebrate 50 years of educational facilities design. See also www.oecd.org/edu/facilities/compendiumlaunch.
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From 28-29 June 2010, the European Investment Bank and OECD/CELE co-organised a workshop on Strategic Investment Planning for Educational Infrastructure at EIB Headquarters in Luxembourg, as part of a joint international project launched in 2009.
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How do you create usable environments for learning? This was the challenge posed to the International Symposium “Usability and Sustainability of Learning Environments”, held in Manchester, United Kingdom, on 11-13 May 2010.
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from 21-Jun-2010 to 22-Jun-2010
The main purpose of the meeting is to discuss financing ECEC services, in particular:
• collecting data on costs and financing;
• reviewing outcomes of investment in early childhood education and care; and
• designing effective funding strategies to increase ECEC financing, improve efficiency and ensure equity and quality of child outcomes.
Countries are invited to share recent policy developments and emerging findings from their own experiences and national research.
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from 07-Jun-2010 to 09-Jun-2010
The 13th OECD Japan Seminar will take place from 7-9 June 2010 in Tokyo, Japan. The topic is “Pursuing Professional Development and Attaining Program Management and Leadership Quality in Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC)”. The seminar will be co-hosted by the University of Tokyo, the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), and the OECD.
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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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