Education

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  • How much is spent on education
  • How education systems operate
  • Impact of education on earnings
  • Who participates in education

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    Books

    Starting Strong III - A Quality Toolbox for Early Childhood Education and Care

    This new publication focuses on quality issues: it aims to define quality and outlines five policy levers that can enhance it in ECEC.

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    OECD educationtoday - Global perspectives on education

    An insider look at new findings in international student performance, skills, early childhood education, education innovation and more.

    PISA - Measuring student success around the world

    If you’re not quite sure what PISA is or does, this video will help you to understand why the OECD’s number-crunchers trigger such intense debate about the state of education around the world every time they release the results of the latest PISA survey.

    OECD Skills Strategy

    One lesson from the economic crisis has been the importance of skills in today’s workplace: job losses among skilled workers were much lower than among the unskilled.

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    Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA)

    PISA 2009 Results presents the findings from the most recent PISA survey, which focused on reading and also assessed mathematics and science performance.

    OECD work on education

    This print-on-demand brochure presents the OECD’s work on education in 2010/11. Users can select, download, print and email all, or parts, of the brochure.

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