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Teaching, Learning and Assessment for Adults: Improving Foundation Skills/ Case Study: United States

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08-Feb-2008

John Benseman and John Comings

This study describes how eight U.S. programmes providing adult base education (ABE), adult secondary education (ASE), and English as a Second Language (ESL) have shaped their services to meet local needs.

Creation and Governance of Human Genetic Research Databases

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31-Oct-2006

Summarises proceedings of a conference looking at examples of human genetic research databases, how they are established, how they are managed and governed, how they might be commercialised, and what the policy considerations might be.

Government R&D Funding and Company Behaviour: Measuring Behavioural Additionality

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08-Jun-2006

This publication explores the emerging concept of behavioural additionality (how government funding of business R&D affects the behaviour of firms) and summarises results of a multinational effort to measure it.

Innovation in Energy Technology: Comparing National Innovation Systems at the Sectoral Level

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24-Feb-2006

This report reviews efforts in nine OECD countries to advance innovation in energy technology, with a particular focus on hydrogen fuel cells. It compares policies and programmes for financing R&D and stimulating market demand for innovative energy technologies.

Global scientific research project launched to improve understanding of the human brain

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11-Aug-2005

Seven member countries of the OECD’s Global Science Forum have launched a project to promote international collaboration among scientists and create new ways of sharing and analysing data to improve our understanding of how the human brain works.

Attracting, Developing and Retaining Effective Teachers: Background Report of the United States

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22-Nov-2004

This background report is one of a series of papers prepared by countries participating in an activity of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), “Attracting, Developing and Retaining ...

Social Capital: The Challenge of International Measurement - The Measurement of Social Capital in the US

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25-Sep-2002

Lisa Hudson and Chris Chapman, Department of Education

OECD Finds that Biotechnology Contributes to Industrial Sustainability

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19-Nov-2001

Biotechnology has long held out the promise of providing alternative methods of industrial production that are both environmentally friendly and economically efficient, thus breaking the seemingly inevitable ...

New School Management Approaches

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23-May-2001

Those who manage schools and educational systems today have an arduous task as schools everywhere are being asked to do more than ever before. They also face a complex world and seemingly endless pressures ...

S&T Labour Markets: Foreign Science and Technology Personnel in the United States.

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01-Jan-2001

Although there may well be different national styles in the organisation of science, science itself is a very international activity.

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