Exposure to complex mathematics concepts and tasks is related to higher performance in PISA among all students, including socio-economically disadvantaged students.

Archived webinar - School Leadership for Learning: Insights from TALIS 2013 (September 20, 2016)

Education’s purpose is to prepare children for a fast-moving, ever-changing world. Teaching faces the additional challenge of classrooms becoming increasingly more culturally diverse. Now, more than ever, this requires an adaptation of current teaching strategies.

Inequality comes in many forms, including economic, social, cultural, and regional. Since the 1980s Income inequality has been growing in most OECD countries and is currently at its highest level in 30 years.

In a rapidly changing world, having a strong knowledge base in their subject area, good classroom management skills and a commitment to helping students learn may no longer be enough to meet the expanding role of teachers.

with Andreas Schleicher, Director for the Directorate of Education and Skills

International mobility is on the rise, and the growing number of people coming and going across borders leads to increasingly diverse communities. Education has an important role to play in developing the competencies required for our increasingly global world.

Almost all mathematics teachers across participating countries use clear and structured teaching practices, according to both teachers and students. A vast majority of teachers also use student-oriented practices and enhanced learning activities in their classroom.

Diversity in the classroom includes differences in the way students’ brains learn, or neurodiversity. Neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism spectrum disorder (asd) and attention deficit hyperactive disorder (adhd) affect increasingly large numbers of students.

The Innovative Teaching for Effective Learning (ITEL) Teacher Knowledge Survey is the first international study to explore the nature, function and development of teachers’ pedagogical knowledge, i.e. what teachers know about teaching and learning.

A Karnataka farmer had posted a video about 100 tonnes of cabbage ready to be harvested and needed buyers. An activist and agri-tech entrepreneur came to immediate rescue of the farmer in dire need.

During an exclusive conversation with International Business Times, India, founder of LetsOTT, Sunita Kumar shared her ideas about the co-existing nature of theatrical releases and OTT releases.

In the face of shifting global trade patterns, international freight transport volumes will grow more than fourfold (factor 4.3) by 2050. Average transport distance across all modes will increase 12%, according to the latest ITF Transport Outlook.

The new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) include a significant number of interconnected objectives related to agriculture and food.

Imagine you have an important decision to make. Do you carefully consider the long-term implications of each possible option or do you act impulsively? Would you approach the decision-making process differently if the consequences stretched out to 30 or even 50 years?

Are you a city-dweller, concerned about the challenges of urbanisation, resilience and inclusiveness? Cities and urban areas represent unrivalled concentrations of people, economic growth, commercial networks, and innovation – and have the potential to make a significant contribution to the transition towards a low-carbon world.

This OECD monograph demonstrates how a chemical hazard assessment that considers and ranks all available relevant information - a so-called weight of evidence approach - can be constructed to conclude on a particular hazard endpoint for a chemical, in this case, skin sensitisation for 4-isopropylaniline.

A major fruit crop of temperate regions, APPLE is consumed worldwide as fresh fruit, juice and other food products. This consensus document provides science-based key insights for the regulatory assessment of the environmental safety of genetically-engineered products: taxonomy, reproductive biology, genetics, hybridisation and introgression, and ecology.

Obama is seeking to scale back US global responsibilities without signalling a retreat

Assertions the patient ‘wouldn’t have wanted to suffer’ offer doctors too much leeway

Uncivil rantings are not as uninformed as one might assume

With new owners, falling viewers and spiralling costs, Formula One is at a crossroads

The leader is a rare example of a foreigner running a German multinational

Eurostar’s new on-board lighting makes me think of an operating theatre lit for intricate surgery

I can’t help but question if airlines wouldn’t be further ahead if they had just stuck to getting the basics right

In order to square restrictions with profitability, airlines would need to jack up ticket prices threefold

Market leaders such as BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street have gained control of 61% of the industry’s assets

1. Covid-19 cases double in Maharashtra in 9 days, tally now above 20,000  Top Live News
2. Maharashtra Sees Sharp Spike In Cases, What's Driving Mumbai's COVID-19 Curve | CNN News18  CNN-News18
3. Maharashtra: Cases cross 20,000 in state, another cop dies in Mumbai  The Indian Express
4. Maharashtra: Over 1 lakh cases of lockdown violations registered  Livemint
5. For 5 straight days, Mumbai's Covid-19 death count has been at least 25  Times of India
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1. Covid-19 state tally: Over 20,000 cases in Maharashtra, Tripura sees rise in patients  Hindustan Times
2. Mint Covid Tracker: Fresh infections, deaths rising faster in India than most countries  Livemint
3. Total Number Of COVID-19 cases In India Rise to 62939, Death Toll At 2109 | CNN News18  CNN-News18
4. Coronavirus state-wise tally May 10: Known COVID-19 cases in Maharashtra surge past 20,000  Moneycontrol
5. Vikram Chandra decodes geographical concentration of Covid-19 in India  Hindustan Times
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A team of firefighters worked tirelessly for three hours to rescue a horse named Duchess who had fallen into a ditch in Great Horkesley, near Colchester on the Friday of bank holiday.

Tony Cooke's eyes were drawn to a photograph of a group of women in pinafores hailing the end of war, conveying the relief, pride and exultant joy of VE Day.

The annual list of awards for celebrities and community heroes - due to be released in June - has fallen victim to Whitehall 'bandwidth' issues as officials are swamped by virus battle.

ROBERT MUIR-WOOD: Containment - isolating those who are ill and infectious - is the oldest known response to mass infection, dating back thousands of years.

Public are being encouraged to shine a light from windows in recognition of nurses in the coronavirus fight, described as the 'greatest health emergency in NHS history'.

Qantas Flight 7879 took off from New York's John F. Kennedy at 9.27pm on Saturday with 50 passengers and crew on board. The flight took nineteen hours and sixteen minutes.

Jess and Lisa Origliasso have revealed that they thought they were the subject of a prank when they were removed from a Qantas flight last month.

The Veronicas have once again spoken on their feud with Qantas and claim they are still confused at why the experience took place.

One in four Qantas flight attendants have experienced sexual harassment by either a colleague or a passenger in the past year, a survey has revealed.   

The actor, 65, posted the cute snap on Saturday, captioned, 'My son Ben is taking my place! His first A380 @qantas flight.' The Grease star was referring to his role as an ambassador of the airline.

The double-deck aircraft was rolled into scaffolding following a routine maintenance check at Sydney Airport on Friday and will now be grounded for at least two weeks.

The airline launched the service to China for the third time in 35 years in 2017 before decreasing the number of weekly flights from seven to five a year later.

The airline is flying 50 passengers and crew on a non-stop flight from London to Sydney on Friday as it researches how to make long haul flights more comfortable for passengers.

International singer will.i.am has accused a Qantas flight attendant of racism while on board a flight from Brisbane to Sydney.

Rapper will.i.am likens his treatment on board a Qantas flight to a 'police state' after officers were called to meet him on the plane when it landed in Sydney over an altercation with a flight attendant.

Jess and Lisa Origliasso were in September removed from a Sydney to Brisbane flight after a disagreement with staff over luggage, and claim one of them was who called AFP on will.i.am.

The Veronicas deleted their Twitter account, just after claiming the Qantas flight attendant who called police on will.i.am is the same one who had officers drag them off a flight. 

Flight attendants have fired back at rapper will.i.am after he accused an air stewardess of racism during a flight to Sydney over the weekend.

Qantas have announced the sale of 100 'Golden Tickets' from London to Sydney, with the return flight costing just £205.

US rapper Will.i.am claimed the Qantas staff member was 'aggressive' towards him - the same flight attendant The Veronicas claim was involved in their own disagreement with Qantas.

Above ­average wind strengths in recent months have contributed to a slight decline in flights departing and arriving on time at Sydney Airport, according to the latest federal government aviation data.