OECD’s Centre for Educational Research and Innovation (CERI) has worked on Open Educational Resources (OER) in the past, which led to the publication Giving Knowledge for Free – the Emergence of Open Educational Resources (2007). This working paper thus builds on exploratory and...

A country’s level of human capital – the knowledge and skills in the population – has a strong bearing on its economic potential for growth and prosperity. On the other hand, its level of social inequality might prevent prosperity to be shared in equitable ways across the population. This...

The second OECD educationtoday Crisis Survey was carried out in 2010. Twenty-five OECD member countries completed the questionnaire. The results of the survey relies largely on the informed opinion of education officials regarding various aspects of the impact of the economic recession and...

The government of New Zealand delegates property expenditure decisions to each individual school. Such a decentralised environment creates a challenge for school boards and principals to obtain advice on the complex issues around designing schools. To inform schools, the Ministry of Education...

The New Zealand Ministry of Education is undertaking a project to provide information that can assist schools to design quality environments that will improve student learning outcomes. The project started in 2004 with the ministry surveying boards of trustees, principals, teachers and students...

En Nouvelle-Zélande, les autorités nationales délèguent à chaque établissement d’enseignement le pouvoir de décision en matière de gestion de ses propres actifs. Un tel cadre décentralisé représente un réel défi pour les chefs d’établissement et l’administration scolaire, qui...

Le ministère de l’Éducation de la Nouvelle-Zélande lance un projet destiné à fournir des informations susceptibles d’aider les écoles à concevoir des environnements de qualité propres à améliorer les résultats des élèves. Dans le cadre de ce projet, lancé en 2004, le ministère...