This book covers experience and policy in OECD countries on: access and participation in education and training; changes in the teaching process and new roles for teachers; pathways through initial education to employment; and financing tertiary education through students.
Thus, the policy focus needs to shift from who are the teachers to what such a change will mean for teaching. Teachers remain very much the heart of the matter, but policies will need to address learning conditions, resources and ...
Provides state-of-the-art reviews of policy issues and developments in the ways that countries define students with disabilities, difficulties and disadvantages; approaches to career guidance; changes underway in higher education; and policy options for making investments in lifelong learning pays.
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This 2004 edition of Education Policy Analysis includes articles on the role of non-university institutions in tertiary education; gaining returns from investments in ICT; the challenges lifelong learning poses for schools; and taxes and lifelong learning.
Education Policy Analysis 1997 is the companion volume to OECD's statistical annual, Education at a Glance 2007. It includes articles on key issues, including costs and expenditures, human capital, adult literacy, educational failure and success, and tertiary institutions' response to new interests.
Among the key policy implications that follow from this analysis are the following tasks for governments and tertiary education systems: • to improve quality and to ensure that all young people successfully master core learning ...
Education Policy Analysis 2005-2006 includes articles on achieving quality, equity and efficiency in higher education; the growing international market in higher education; valuing teachers; formative assessment and gender differences and mathematics: performance.
Quality assurance and the recognition of foreign diplomas: These are two crucial aspects of educational policies to promote ... students only makes sense if they are allowed entry – ideally easy entry – in order to pursue their studies.
In supporting children’s development, countries invest in the future successes of economies and societies. Awareness of the critical role early childhood education and care (ECEC) plays in setting a strong foundation for children’s learning, development and well-being has grown among policy makers worldwide.
Initial preparation should therefore now cover a broad range of areas, including playful learning, transitions, diversity and family engagement. This is also the case for the new common curriculum developed for ETB programmes, ...
Guidelines for Collecting, Reporting and Using Data on Innovation, 4th Edition
What is innovation and how should it be measured? Understanding the scale of innovation activities, the characteristics of innovative firms and the internal and systemic factors that can influence innovation is a prerequisite for the pursuit and analysis of policies aimed at fostering innovation.
Both methods require questions to be heard, which can require changes to question formats compared to visual survey methods. Interviewers must be trained in interview techniques and how to answer ...
Over the past three decades, Bulgaria has carried out important structural reforms which have helped the country reach higher levels of socio-economic development. However, long-standing social disparities and income inequalities remain and Bulgaria’s overall productivity gains have not fully translated into sustainable and inclusive growth.
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Romania’s education system has made impressive strides over the past two decades, with an increasing share of students mastering the basic competencies that they need for life and work. But these average improvements mask significant disparities in learning outcomes and attainment, with an ...
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