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News & Events
News
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18-May-2009
The CELE Group of National Experts on Evaluating Quality in Educational Facilities met in March to discuss the Centre’s evaluation-related projects and to exchange their countries’ experience in this area.
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28-Apr-2009
Across OECD countries, close to 40% of high-school students who come top in science subjects have no interest in pursuing a science-related career, while almost 45% do not want to continue studying science, according to a new OECD report.
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09-Apr-2009
The dedicated website for the OECD Reviews of Higher Education in Regional and City Development has been revamped. The website now features easier navigation between the different rounds of the reviews, a map of all the participating regions using the Google Maps service and the brochure: Higher Education in Cities and Regions. Read all about the goals of the OECD review, the steps involved in the process and how to join the Rolling Programme of Reviews. For more information, go to the website or contact: jaana.puukka@oecd.org.
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09-Apr-2009
By joining IMHE you will immediately profit from being linked to an internationally recognised network and kept up to date with the latest innovations in education and in managing higher education institutions. Your priviledged connection to the OECD will engage you directly in helping in influencing this international organisation on how to tackle key policy issues to improve institutional leadership management and governance in higher education.
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02-Apr-2009
This issue contains updates on the quality and teaching project; progress on the international assessment of higher education learning outcomes (AHELO) and the reviews on higher education in regional and city development.
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01-Apr-2009
These reports on migrant education policies and practices examine immigrant children’s access to, participation in and performance at school. The reports also look at which interventions are working, which are not working, and why.
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31-Mar-2009
Teenagers in OECD countries are mostly well aware of environmental issues but often know little about their causes, raising questions about how well societies will be equipped to tackle such challenges in the future, according to a new OECD publication.
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12-Mar-2009
A professor of a well-known business school in Spain once remarked that the one thing people forget to do in a crisis is “think”. He could have added “think innovatively”. For 40 years, that is precisely what OECD’s Centre for Educational Research and Innovation (CERI) has been doing: helping educators and policymakers think and so better tackle challenges and prepare for the future.
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10-Mar-2009
In some respects, Spain has joined the ranks of countries with a modern, responsive and creative system of tertiary education. But the tertiary system must accelerate the pace of reform to respond to the social and economic pressures facing Spain.
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Events
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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 15-Jul-2006 to 17-Jul-2006
This year's G8 Summit took place in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The top priorities laid down by President Vladimir Putin were global energy security, education and fighting infectious diseases. Go here for OECD work on these and other issues discussed at the 2006 Summit.
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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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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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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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