0 Education in Focus No. 31 - How is the global talent pool changing (2013, 2030)? By www.oecd.org Published On :: Thu, 23 Apr 2015 17:23:00 GMT The global talent pool has grown over the past decade and is expected to continue growing through to 2030. The number of young people aged 25-34 with a tertiary qualification increased by nearly 45% between 2005 and 2013 in OECD and G20 countries and is expected to keep increasing in the coming decade. Full Article
0 The OECD-Singapore Conference on Higher Education Futures (Singapore, October 14-15 2015) By oecdconference.sg Published On :: Thu, 27 Aug 2015 13:58:00 GMT The OECD-Singapore Conference on Higher Education Futures will explore forward-looking themes in the global higher education landscape. The Conference will bring together some 500 participants from over 40 countries, representing senior government officials, higher education administrators, academics and practitioners, for an engaging exchange of ideas and best practices. Full Article
0 OECD Education and Skills Newsletter - September 2015 By www.oecdmybrochure.org Published On :: Mon, 21 Sep 2015 14:09:00 GMT Bringing you the highlights from the OECD Directorate for Education and Skills Full Article
0 PISA in Focus No. 56 - How confident are students in their ability to solve mathematics problems? By www.oecd.org Published On :: Tue, 13 Oct 2015 18:35:00 GMT On average across OECD countries, students’ belief that they can solve mathematics problems (mathematics self-efficacy) is associated with a difference of 49 score points in mathematics – the equivalent of one year of school. Full Article
0 Archived webinar December 17 2015 - Immigrant Students at School: Easing the Journey towards Integration presented by Presented by Andreas Schleicher, Director for the Directorate of Education and Skills, OECD By youtu.be Published On :: Fri, 18 Dec 2015 12:31:00 GMT Archived webinar December 17 2015 - Immigrant Students at School: Easing the Journey towards Integration presented by Presented by Andreas Schleicher, Director for the Directorate of Education and Skills, OECD Full Article
0 Archived Webinar - Supporting Teacher Professionalism. (Friday, 12 February 2016, 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.) By all4ed.org Published On :: Tue, 02 Feb 2016 18:55:00 GMT Archived Webinar - Friday, 12 February 2016, 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. (ET) - The Alliance for Excellent Education and the National Commission on Teaching and America’s Future (NCTAF) joined forces with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) to host a joint U.S. release of the OECD’s new report Supporting Teacher Professionalism. Full Article
0 Archived webinar - Low-performing Students: Why they Fall Behind and How to Help them Succeed (February 10, 2016) with Andreas Schleicher, Director for Education and Skills, OECD, and Daniel Salinas, Analyst, OECD. By www.youtube.com Published On :: Tue, 02 Feb 2016 18:58:00 GMT Archived webinar - Low-performing Students: Why they Fall Behind and How to Help them Succeed (February 10, 2016) with Andreas Schleicher, Director for Education and Skills, OECD, and Daniel Salinas, Analyst, OECD. Full Article
0 PISA in Focus No. 60: Who are the low-performing students? By www.oecd.org Published On :: Wed, 10 Feb 2016 10:13:00 GMT No country or economy participating in PISA 2012 can claim that all of its 15-year-old students have achieved basic proficiency skills in mathematics, reading and science. Some 28% of students score below the baseline level of proficiency in at least one of those subjects, on average across OECD countries Full Article
0 Archived webinar - Teaching Excellence through Professional Learning and Policy Reform - Lessons from around the World (March 2, 2016) By youtu.be Published On :: Mon, 07 Mar 2016 13:44:00 GMT If the quality of an education system can never exceed the quality of its teachers, then countries need to do all they can to build a high-quality teaching force. Full Article
0 Skills in Ibero-America: Insights from PISA 2012 By www.oecd.org Published On :: Wed, 20 Apr 2016 14:04:00 GMT Despite the progress observed by PISA over the last decade, Latin American education systems still have a long way to go to reach world class standards. Ibero-American countries will also need to rethink their instructional system to better anticipate the knowledge and skills it will need to reignite its economy. Full Article
0 Education Indicators in Focus No. 40 - Teachers’ ICT and problem-solving skills: Competencies and needs By dx.doi.org Published On :: Fri, 22 Apr 2016 15:06:00 GMT The education sector performs well for information and communication technology (ICT) and problem-solving skills, although it still lags behind the professional, scientific and technical activities sector. Full Article
0 Ministers chart future path to boosting skills for productivity, innovation and inclusion at Skills Summit 2016 in Bergen By www.oecd.org Published On :: Wed, 29 Jun 2016 14:33:00 GMT 26 Ministers and State Secretaries representing 15 countries and the European Commission gathered in Bergen, Norway, for the first Skills Summit on 29-30 June 2016. The Summit, hosted by Norway, was opened by Prime Minister Erna Solberg and the OECD’s Secretary General, Angel Gurría. Full Article
0 Achieving Sustainable Development Goal for education by 2030 will be major challenge for all countries By www.oecd.org Published On :: Thu, 15 Sep 2016 11:30:00 GMT OECD countries must step up their efforts to improve the quality and equity of their education systems as part of their commitments to meet the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) for education by 2030, according to a new OECD report. Full Article
0 Education at a Glance 2016 - Country Notes By www.oecd.org Published On :: Thu, 15 Sep 2016 11:30:00 GMT Education at a Glance 2016 - Country Notes Full Article
0 Archived webinar of September 15,2016 with Andreas Schleicher, Director for Education and Skills, OECD, presenting the findings of Education at a Glance 2016. By youtu.be Published On :: Fri, 16 Sep 2016 13:06:00 GMT Archived webinar of September 15,2016 with Andreas Schleicher, Director for Education and Skills, OECD, presenting the findings of Education at a Glance 2016. Full Article
0 Archived webinar - School Leadership for Learning: Insights from TALIS 2013 (September 20, 2016) By www.youtube.com Published On :: Tue, 20 Sep 2016 11:39:00 GMT Archived webinar - School Leadership for Learning: Insights from TALIS 2013 (September 20, 2016) Full Article
0 Livestream - Global launch of the results of latest PISA survey on 6 December 2016 - 09:45 - 12:30 GMT By www.youtube.com Published On :: Tue, 06 Dec 2016 09:45:00 GMT On December 6 2016 the Education Policy Institute will host the global launch of the 2015 results from the OECD's Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) - a test of reading literacy, mathematics, and science given every three years to fifteen-year-olds in more than seventy countries and economies worldwide. This year's results will focus on science. Full Article
0 Archived webinar - PISA 2015 Q&A Session with Andreas Schleicher, Director of the OECD Directorate for Education and Skills discussing the PISA 2015 results. By youtu.be Published On :: Thu, 08 Dec 2016 15:39:00 GMT More than half a million 15-year-olds took part in the OECD’s latest global education survey, known as PISA. The main focus was on science, an increasingly important part of our economic and social lives. Full Article
0 OECD Education and Skills Newsletter - December 2016 By www.oecdmybrochure.org Published On :: Mon, 12 Dec 2016 11:22:00 GMT Bringing you the highlights from the OECD Directorate for Education and Skills Full Article
0 Register for a webinar "PISA 2015: Q&A Session Closing the Achievement Gap" with Andreas Schleicher (December 15th, 14h Paris time) By oecd1000.webex.com Published On :: Tue, 13 Dec 2016 14:50:00 GMT Register for a webinar "PISA 2015: Q&A Session Closing the Achievement Gap" with Andreas Schleicher (December 15th, 14h Paris time) Full Article
0 Who are the winners and losers of the expansion of education over the past 50 years? (OECD Education Today Blog) By oecdeducationtoday.blogspot.fr Published On :: Fri, 27 Jan 2017 11:49:00 GMT Modern education systems, which are open to the middle classes and the poor, not just the elites, were established during the first industrial revolution in the 18th and 19th centuries. Full Article
0 Education Indicators in Focus No. 48 - A snapshot of 50 years of trends in expanding education By dx.doi.org Published On :: Fri, 27 Jan 2017 11:50:00 GMT Countries have seen a major increase in the educational attainment level of their populations. In 1965, only 43% of young adults aged 25-34 had attained upper secondary education or higher on average across OECD countries. Fifty years later, upper secondary education had almost doubled with attainment levels reaching 84% in 2015. Full Article
0 Archived webinar - "Where did equity improve", with Andreas Schleicher - Director for the Directorate of Education and Skills (February 6, 2017) By youtu.be Published On :: Tue, 07 Feb 2017 14:31:00 GMT The persistence of social inequities in education – the fact that children of wealthy and highly educated parents tend to do better in school than children from less privileged families – is often seen as a difficult-to-reverse feature of education systems. PISA shows that, rather than assuming that inequality of opportunity is set in stone, school systems can become more equitable over a relatively short time. Full Article
0 Archived webinar - "Pedagogical Knowledge and the Changing Nature of the Teaching Profession" (February 24th, 2017) By youtu.be Published On :: Mon, 27 Feb 2017 14:35:00 GMT Highly qualified and competent teachers are fundamental for equitable and effective education systems. Teachers today are facing higher and more complex expectations to help students reach their full potential and become valuable members of 21st century society. Full Article
0 7th International Summit on the Teaching Profession (ISTP) (Edinburgh, Scotland 30-31 March, 2017) By www.istp2017.uk Published On :: Tue, 07 Mar 2017 13:46:00 GMT Since its inaugural edition in 2011 in New York City, the ISTP has become an important forum for open and constructive exchange on effective teacher policies and practices. It assembles governments and teacher organisations from a number of high-performing and rapidly improving school systems, as certified by recent results of the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). Full Article
0 Archived webinar - Gender differences in education - through the lens of PISA (March 8, 2017) By youtu.be Published On :: Thu, 09 Mar 2017 11:56:00 GMT In 2015, PISA asked students about the occupation they expect to be working in when they are 30 years old. Students’ responses were later grouped into science-related and non-science-related careers – with the former including science and engineering professionals; health professionals; science technicians and associate professionals; and information and communication technology (ICT) professionals. Full Article
0 PISA in Focus No. 70: What do we know about teachers’ selection and professional development in high-performing countries? By dx.doi.org Published On :: Tue, 21 Mar 2017 16:05:00 GMT In countries that performed above the OECD average in science, at least 80% of the students are in schools that invite specialists to conduct teacher training or organise in-service workshops for teachers or where teachers cooperate with each other. This is higher, on average, than what is observed among other countries. Full Article
0 OECD Education and Skills Newsletter - March 2017 By www.oecd.org Published On :: Mon, 27 Mar 2017 11:52:00 GMT Bringing you the highlights from the OECD Directorate for Education and Skills Full Article
0 Education Indicators in Focus No. 50: Educational attainment and investment in education in Ibero-American countries By dx.doi.org Published On :: Fri, 31 Mar 2017 13:35:00 GMT Despite the geographical distances between them, Ibero-American countries share some similarities in their educational attainment rates and private expenditure on educational institutions as a percentage of GDP. Full Article
0 Register for the Q&A Webinar - Tax Incentives to Invest in Education and Skills (Thursday, 13 April, at 17:00 Paris time) By www.oecd.org Published On :: Thu, 06 Apr 2017 20:04:00 GMT This public session will discuss the financial incentives to invest in education, with a particular focus on how tax systems impact skills development in OECD countries. The webinar will present some of the key findings from the OECD’s new report, Taxation and Skills and their implications for policy makers. Full Article
0 OECD to launch Skills Outlook 2017: Skills and global value chains, 09:00 GMT on Thursday 4 May By www.oecd.org Published On :: Wed, 26 Apr 2017 12:17:00 GMT Amid a growing debate over the benefits of globalisation, a new OECD report examines how the level and mix of skills in a country’s workforce can affect its chances of winning or losing from the globalised production chains that see workers dotted across different countries contributing to the design, manufacture and sale of a single product Full Article
0 Register for the webinar - Transitions from Early Childhood Education and Care to Primary Education (Wednesday, 21 June, at 17:00 Paris time) By newsletter.oecd.org Published On :: Thu, 15 Jun 2017 18:04:00 GMT Join Andreas Schleicher, Director of the OECD Directorate for Education and Skills, and Éric Charbonnier, analyst in the Early Childhood and Schools division, who will present the main findings from Starting Strong V - Transitions from Early Childhood Education and Care to Primary Education. Full Article
0 Education and Skills Newsletter - July/August 2017 By newsletter.oecd.org Published On :: Fri, 01 Sep 2017 12:15:00 GMT What's new in education and skills at the OECD? Full Article
0 Archived webinar - Education at a Glance 2017 (with Andreas Schleicher, Director for the Directorate of Education and Skills, OECD)- September 12,2017 By youtu.be Published On :: Wed, 13 Sep 2017 11:50:00 GMT Education at a Glance: OECD Indicators is the authoritative source for information on the state of education around the world. Full Article
0 Education and Skills Newsletter - September 2017 By newsletter.oecd.org Published On :: Thu, 05 Oct 2017 19:02:00 GMT What's new in education and skills at the OECD? Full Article
0 Education and Skills Newsletter - October 2017 By newsletter.oecd.org Published On :: Wed, 01 Nov 2017 11:39:00 GMT What's new in education and skills at the OECD? Full Article
0 Register for the webinar - PISA 2015 Results (Volume V): Collaborative Problem Solving (Tuesday, 21 November,16:00 Paris time) By newsletter.oecd.org Published On :: Tue, 14 Nov 2017 11:22:00 GMT The assessment examines students’ ability to work with two or more people to try to solve a problem. The report highlights how students’ gender, socio-economic status and immigrant background are related to their performance in the assessment and to their attitudes towards collaboration in general. Full Article
0 How much will the literacy level of working-age people change from now to 2022? (OECD Education Today Blog) By oecdeducationtoday.blogspot.com Published On :: Fri, 17 Nov 2017 11:23:00 GMT Taken as a whole, the OECD’s Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) and Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC) present a mixed picture for Korea and Singapore. As their economies have grown, these two countries’ education systems have seen fast and impressive improvements; both now rank among PISA’s top performers. Full Article
0 Archived webinar - "PISA 2015 Results (Volume V) - Collaborative Problem Solving" By youtu.be Published On :: Tue, 21 Nov 2017 18:42:00 GMT with Andreas Schleicher - Director for the Directorate of Education and Skills (November 21, 2017) Full Article
0 Teaching in Focus No. 20 - What does teaching look like? A new video study By dx.doi.org Published On :: Wed, 17 Jan 2018 13:29:00 GMT While teachers can make a great difference to student outcomes, we know little about how they teach and what makes “good” teaching. The TALIS Video Study is a new OECD project that aims at understanding what teaching practices are used, how they are interrelated, and which ones are most related to students’ cognitive and non-cognitive outcomes. Full Article
0 PISA in Focus No. 80 - In which countries and schools do disadvantaged students succeed? By doi.org Published On :: Mon, 29 Jan 2018 18:38:00 GMT PISA 2015 data show that, on average across OECD countries, as many as three out of four students from the lowest quarter of socio-economic status reach, at best, only the baseline level of proficiency (Level 2) in reading, mathematics or science. Full Article
0 Mother's Day 2020: Best Hollywood films to watch celebrating motherhood By Published On :: Sun, 10 May 2020 06:51:06 +0530 With many of us still continuing to remain at home and while some won't be able to see their moms in person, here are some of the best Hollywood films to watch on Mother's Day celebrating the motherhood. Full Article
0 Mother's Day 2020: Sara, Ayushmann, Malaika, Ananya and others wish their mothers in adorable ways By Published On :: Sun, 10 May 2020 08:46:07 +0530 Just like every child across the world, Bollywood celebrities too are celebrating Mother's Day amid the nationwide lockdown. Full Article
0 Mother's Day 2020: From Kareena Kapoor to Malaika Arora - 5 hottest moms of Bollywood By Published On :: Sun, 10 May 2020 10:10:00 +0530 On Mother's Day 2020, we take a look at actresses like Malaika, Kareena, Shilpa who are among the most gorgeous mothers of the film fraternity. Full Article
0 Happy Mother's Day 2020: Bollywood moms then vs Bollywood moms now By Published On :: Sun, 10 May 2020 10:45:00 +0530 Happy Mother's Day: A look back at how our mothers in the Hindi film industry have become relatable, flesh-and-blood characters. Full Article
0 Coronavirus deaths in India cross 2,000-mark; total tally hits 62,939 By Published On :: Sun, 10 May 2020 11:12:25 +0530 With 3277 new cases and 128 new fatalities, total case count of novel Coronavirus rose to 62,939 and total deaths getting past the 2000 mark, the health ministry said on Sunday, May 10. Full Article
0 Working Paper 2011/7: The Competitiveness of Global Port-Cities:The Case of the Seine Axis By www.oecd.org Published On :: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT This working paper offers an evaluation of the performance of the ports of the Seine Axis (Le Havre,Rouen, Caen and Paris). Full Article
0 OECD Reviews of Regional Innovation: Wallonia, Belgium 2012 By www.oecd.org Published On :: Fri, 08 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT This publication looks at regional innovation in Wallonia, Belgium, by examining the political context, governance issues and the role of innovation in the economy, along with regional innovation strategies to promote growth. Full Article
0 Start- Up Latin America 2016 By www.oecd.org Published On :: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 16:32:00 GMT Start-ups are gaining momentum in Latin America's innovation strategies. Start-up Latin America: Promoting Innovation in the Region analyses the role of policies in promoting the creation and expansion of start-ups. It provides a comparative snapshot of recent initiatives in six countries in the region to identify good practices and foster knowledge sharing to improve innovation policy design and implementation. Full Article
0 Regional Development Policy Newsletter: Autumn 2013 By www.oecd.org Published On :: Tue, 17 Sep 2013 15:51:00 GMT Newsletter on regional development for autumn 2013. Full Article