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Both individuals and countries benefit from education. For individuals, the potential benefits lie in general quality of life and in the economic returns of sustained, satisfying employment. For countries, the potential benefits lie in economic growth and the development of shared values that underpin social cohesion.
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23-Jun-2009
This collaborative space offers you evidence and analysis on the impact of the crisis on education, concrete examples of how governments and institutions in different countries are coping, information on high priority issues such as education budgets, stimulus packages, the effects of unemployment on motivation and learning attitudes, and much more. Register now and contribute to this information sharing platform with other members of the fast-growing OECD social network.
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from 09-Jun-2009 to 10-Jun-2009
OECD Education Ministers met informally in Oslo on 9-10 June 2009 under the chairmanship of Norway’s Minister of Education, Bård Vegar Solhjell, to discuss measures to improve equity in education and reduce dropout rates in upper secondary school.
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21-Jun-2009
Remarks by Angel Gurría, OECD Secretary-General, delivered at the launch of the OECD Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS) in Mexico on 16 June 2009
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from 21-Sep-2009 to 23-Sep-2009
21st century societies are pervaded by technology in ways that change dramatically how people deal with information, knowledge management and social communication. But which specific competencies does the resulting economy require? How are today's education systems in OECD countries preparing learners for these 21st century skills and competencies?
These key issues are going to be discussed at the New Millennium Learners Conference, jointly organized by the OECD Centre for Educational Research and Innovation (CERI) and the Flemish Ministry of Education.
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16-Jun-2009
Three out of four teachers feel they lack incentives to improve the quality of their teaching, while bad behaviour by students in the classroom disrupts lessons in three schools out of five, according to a new OECD report “Creating effective teaching and learning environments”.
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26-May-2009
This book aims to provide important insights for policy makers reponsible for endorsing gender equity by exploring the educational performance and attitudes of 15-year-old girls and boys in reading, mathematics, problems solving and science.
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26-May-2009
Education and training, and investment in and support for the life sciences, geothermal energy research and creative industries/ICT are the best means of stimulating innovation-led economic growth in Iceland. An international panel of experts mandated by the Icelandic government recommends consolidation of the universities and revitalized governance and support measures to build on Iceland’s world-class science base.
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28-Apr-2009
This book analyses factors contributing to the successful performance of students in science by exploring how the academic achievement of students relates to the characteristics of individual students, schools and education systems.
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30-Apr-2009
OECD’s Programme on Institutional Management in Higher Education announces plans for a conference on the impact of the economic crisis on higher education institutions on 29-30 June hosted by the Copenhagen Business School in co-operation with OECD/IMHE.
The conference will debate questions of supply and demand, costs and income in higher education and will analyse the role and responsibility of higher education institutions and how to transform these challenges into opportunities.
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on 16-Jun-2009
The first results from the OECD Teaching and Learning International survey (TALIS) will be released at an international press conference in Brussels at 11am (CET) on 16 June 2009. In recognition of the collaborative work on TALIS with the European Commission, the press conference is a joint event between the OECD and the European Commission.
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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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06-Mar-2009
The Australian education system fares well in international comparison with regards to PISA test scores and the higher education system attracts an increasing number of foreign students. However, a number of challenges need to be addressed.
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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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05-Mar-2009
In recent years, Japan has made significant progress in modernising its tertiary education system but reforms of the system must continue to respond to current social and economic pressures in Japan.
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05-Mar-2009
05/03/2009 – Like many other countries, China faces the dilemma of expanding its tertiary education system within a tight fiscal constraint. Special challenges in China include the unprecedented scale in student numbers and the rapidly rising aspirations of students and parents for upward social mobility through education.
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09-Mar-2009
Consumers today are challenged by growing amounts of information and wider choices of products. To make good choices in increasingly complex markets, they must develop a greater range of skills and knowledge. This new book examines the approaches that governments use to promote consumer education in OECD and some non-OECD countries, highlighting the policies and measures that have been particularly effective.
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07-Jan-2009
This book presents all the publicly available questions from the PISA surveys. Some of these questions were used in the PISA 2000, 2003 and 2006 surveys and others were used in developing and trying out the assessment.
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03-Mar-2009
Giving Knowledge for Free: The Emergence of Open Educational Resources. The Centre for Educational Research and Innovation (CERI) free report published in English in 2007, and which has already been translated into Catalan, Japanese,and Swedish, is now available in Spanish: El conociomiento libre y los recursos educativos abiertos.
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This book is the first volume in the Higher Education to 2030 series, which takes a forward-looking approach to analysing the impact of various contemporary trends on tertiary education systems.
Higher Education to 2030 (Vol. 1): Demography
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