Many Latin American countries are undertaking projects, in line with practices disseminated by PEB, to share school facilities with the local community, to adapt traditional schools for students with disabilities, and to collaborate with private companies to finance educational buildings. The...

The following pages include articles describing recent developments in three Latin American countries to expand public education facilities. They are followed by a report on UNESCO’s recent seminar on architecture for an inclusive education. Chile, Brazil and Venezuela have undertaken various...

Dans les pages qui suivent, on trouvera des articles consacrés aux évolutions récentes dans trois pays d'Amérique latine en matière d’expansion des installations scolaires. Suit un rapport sur un récent séminaire de l'OCDE consacré à l'architecture pour une éducation sans exclusion....

This report seeks to address critical issues such as these by synthesising the evidence on innovations in more market-driven education systems. The analysis draws on data from over 20 OECD and non-OECD countries, including both developed nations that seek to move beyond established systems of...

<ul> <li> L’amélioration de la performance d’un pays dans l’enquête PISA n’est liée ni à sa situation géographique, ni à son niveau de richesse nationale, ni à sa culture. </li> <li>Dans la plupart des cas, les pays qui ont enregistré une amélioration marquée de leur performance dans...</li></ul>

<ul> <li> The report <i>New insights from TALIS 2013: Teaching and learning in primary and upper secondary education</i> (OECD, 2014a) presents an overview of teachers and teaching in primary and upper secondary education for a sample of countries that participated in the OECD Teaching and Learning...</li></ul>

<ul> <li> While most 15-year-old students spend part of their after-school time doing homework, the amount of time they spend on it shrank between 2003 and 2012. </li> <li> Socio-economically advantaged students and students who attend socio-economically advantaged schools tend to spend more time doing homework.</li>...</ul>

<ul> <li> Si après leur journée d’école, la plupart des élèves de 15 ans consacrent une partie de leur temps à faire leurs devoirs, ce temps a néanmoins diminué entre 2003 et 2012. </li> <li> Les élèves issus d’un milieu socio-économique favorisé et ceux qui fréquentent un établissement...</li></ul>

<ul> <li> Rising levels of tertiary attainment seem not to have led to an “inflation” eroding the labour-market value of qualifications. However, tertiary graduates have the highest relative earnings advantage when they live in a country with low tertiary attainment rates. </li> <li> On average, compared to...</li></ul>

This report is an assessment of the programme “Lernen vor Ort” [LvO – “Learning Locally”] initiated by the German federal government in order to support the development of local governance structures in education. LvO ran between 2009 and 2014 in about 40 participating local...