17-November-2015
English
Only in some countries is a larger proportion of immigrant students in schools related to lower student performance – and this relationship is mostly explained by the concentration of disadvantaged students in these schools.
7-October-2015
English
Parents’ level of education still greatly influences that of their children: individuals are 4.5 times more likely to attend higher education if one of their parents has a higher education degree than if both their parents have below upper secondary education.
15-September-2015
English
The top-performing country in the PISA assessment of digital reading was Singapore, followed by Korea, Hong Kong-China, Japan, Canada and Shanghai-China.
25-August-2015
English
There is no real consensus on how much class time is enough when it comes to learning mathematics, science and reading. But educators and policy makers generally agree that while it’s important for students to spend considerable time in school lessons to acquire new skills, spending more hours and minutes in class is not enough to ensure that students succeed in school.
9-juillet-2015
Français
Le pourcentage d’élèves issus de l’immigration a augmenté entre 2003 et 2012, dans les pays d’accueil traditionnels comme dans les nouveaux. L’écart de performance en mathématiques entre les élèves issus de l’immigration et les élèves autochtones a diminué, en moyenne, entre 2003 et 2012.
3-July-2015
English
In 2012, in more than one-third of OECD countries, over half of all upper secondary students participated in pre-vocational or vocational programmes but less than 30% of those students were exposed to work-based learning. Countries with well-established and high-quality vocational and apprenticeship programmes have improved youth employment opportunities.
16-juin-2015
Français
Entre 2003 et 2012, on observe une amélioration significative de la quantité et de la qualité des ressources dont disposent les établissements d’enseignement, en moyenne, dans les pays de l’OCDE.
16-June-2015
English
The quantity and quality of resources available to schools improved significantly between 2003 and 2012, on average across OECD countries.
5-June-2015
English
Educational opportunities have a very important impact on a person’s life. Employment, earnings, well-being, health and trust are all strongly related to education and skills. A lack of high-quality educational opportunities is the most important way in which poverty, social inequality and exclusion are transmitted from one generation to another.
19-May-2015
English
In many countries, less experienced teachers (those with less than five years’ teaching experience) are more likely to work in challenging schools and less likely to report confidence in their teaching abilities than more experienced teachers.