20-June-2017
English
As this month’s PISA in Focus reveals, students spend considerably more time learning in some countries than in others, but this does not necessarily translate into better learning outcomes.
19-June-2017
English
Unlike earlier PISA reports, the 2015 PISA report (Volume I and Volume II) highlights differences in sample coverage – how many students were eligible to participate in PISA – between countries.
13-June-2017
English
As our world becomes increasingly interconnected, so do the risks we face. A disease breaking out in a village in Africa, a bank crashing on Wall Street or a protest in a distant country can all potentially “snowball” and influence the world financial, health or security order.
31-May-2017
English
Why is it that even highly educated migrants to OECD countries are less likely to be employed than native-born adults who are similarly educated, even if the migrants have lived in their host country for several years?
25-May-2017
English
Many education systems around the world are looking for ways to give parents more choice over where they send their children to school.
24-May-2017
English
Two in three 15-year-old students earn money from work activity, and more than one in two hold a bank account.
17-May-2017
English
What makes some of the largest companies in the world successful? According to consultant Simon Sinek in a very popular TedTalk it is because they start with the ‘why’.
15-May-2017
English
In 2014, over 3 million students in OECD countries – more than double the amount in 2000 – were studying outside their country of citizenship.
9-May-2017
English
One of the greatest challenge for new teachers, does not come from not knowing what to teach, but from not knowing how to teach what they know and how to manage a classroom in all its strange and exciting complexity.
4-May-2017
English
Globalisation is connecting people, cities, countries and continents, bringing together a majority of the world’s population in ways that vastly increase our individual and collective potential, and creating an integrated market in products and services.