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10 Dec 2004
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Career Guidance: A Handbook for Policy Makers
OECD, The European Commission, Pages: 84
This joint publication of the OECD and the EU gives policy makers practical tools to tackle weaknesses in many countries' career guidance systems including limited access, particularly for adults; failure to develop career management skills;...
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12 Feb 2004
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Career Guidance and Public Policy: Bridging the Gap
OECD, Pages: 172
OECD countries are attaching rising importance to lifelong learning and active employment policies as tools of economic growth and social equity. Effective information and guidance systems are essential to support the implementation of these ...
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13 Jan 1999
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Children and Families at Risk: New Issues in Integrating Services
OECD, Pages: 214
This book examines the necessity to provide greater co-ordination among family and educational services, to improve their efficiency and effectiveness and to provide a seamless support to meet the holistic needs of students and their families.
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02 Sep 2010
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Chile's International Scholarship Programme
OECD, The World Bank, Pages: 132
This report reviews Chile’s scholarship abroad scheme and provides an overview of best practices for scholarship programmes at the international level. In addition it analyses the design and institutional framework of the Chilean programme and...
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18 Jan 2001
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Cities and Regions in the New Learning Economy
OECD, Pages: 148
Is there a "new learning economy"? This publication, which views the debate from the perspective of a regional learning economy, clearly answers in the affirmative.
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24 Mar 2010
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Closing the Gap for Immigrant Students: Policies, Practice and Performance
OECD, Pages: 110
This book offers comparative data on access, participation and performance of immigrant students and their native peers and identifies a set of policy options based on solid evidence of what works.
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17 Dec 2012
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Closing the Gender Gap: Act Now
OECD, Pages: 352
This OECD report focuses on how best to close gender gaps under four broad headings: 1) Gender equality, social norms and public policies; and gender equality in 2) education; 3) employment and 4) entrepreneurship.
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03 Nov 2004
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Co-financing Lifelong Learning: Towards a Systemic Approach
OECD, Pages: 146
This book identifies important economic barriers to expanded investment in lifelong learning, describes outlines financial strategies for addressing them, and reviews recent experience with various co-financing schemes. Country-by-country reports are...
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17 July 1998
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Co-ordinating Services for Children and Youth at Risk: A World View
OECD, Pages: 436
With 15-30% of our children and youth at risk of failing in school, increasing the co-ordination of education, health and social services is seen as part of the solution. This book shows how it is being done in Australia, Canada, Finland, Germany,...
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02 Feb 2004
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Completing the Foundation for Lifelong Learning: An OECD Survey of Upper Secondary Schools
OECD, Pages: 172
This report provides internationally comparable data from upper secondary schools. It sheds light on how these schools are managed and financed, on their approaches to and difficulties in securing qualified teachers, and their efforts to support the ...
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23 July 2012
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English
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Connected Minds: Technology and Today's Learners
OECD, Pages: 172
This book contributes to the debate about the effects of technology attachment and connectedness on today’s learners, and their expectations about teaching.
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21 July 2009
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English
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Creating Effective Teaching and Learning Environments: First Results from TALIS
OECD, Pages: 306
This publication is the first report from the OECD’s Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS). It provides quantitative, policy-relevant information on the teaching and learning environment in schools in 23 countries.
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18 June 2009
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Creating Effective Teaching and Learning Environments: First Results from TALIS
OECD, Pages: 310
This survey aims to help countries review and develop policies to make the teaching profession more attractive and more effective.
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08 Aug 2007
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Cross-border Tertiary Education: A Way towards Capacity Development
OECD, The World Bank, Pages: 200
This book discusses the concept of capacity-building for tertiary education through cross-border education, emphasising the critical role of quality assurance and trade negotiations.
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11 Jan 2001
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Current Issues in Chinese Higher Education
OECD, Pages: 148
This volume provides a distinct flavour of the challenges and opportunities inherent in the very fundamental reforms under way in the higher education sector in China, as seen through the eyes of some of those directly involved.
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