30-November-2016
English
High-performing education systems value teachers and invest a lot in them. And indeed, the human factor is crucial in creating effective and high-quality teaching and learning environments.
25-November-2016
English
Peru has been one of the strongest economic performers in Latin America with steady GDP per capita growth over the past decade.
23-November-2016
English
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.
15-November-2016
English
The most recent round of the assessment, PISA 2015, focused on 15-year-olds’ science literacy, defined as "the ability to engage with science-related issues, and with the ideas of science, as a reflective citizen".
15-November-2016
English
PISA 2015 focused on science, with the understanding that, although not every student is interested in becoming a scientist, all of us now need to be able to “think like a scientist” sometimes.
28-October-2016
English
More and more adults are earning a tertiary qualification, but not all tertiary degrees have the same value on the labour market. In general, postgraduate degrees such as master’s and doctoral degrees are associated with higher employment rates and earnings than bachelor’s degrees.
28-October-2016
English
Why women and men choose to pursue different fields of study, and why those choices vary among countries, is not easy to determine.
25-October-2016
English
On 6 December, the latest results from the OECD Programme for International Student Assessment, better known as PISA, will be made public.
7-October-2016
English
When it comes to learning mathematics, certain teacher-directed learning strategies, such as asking questions to check whether students understand what has been taught, has proven to work well when solving basic mathematics problems.