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Across OECD countries, governments are seeking policies to make education more effective while searching for additional resources to meet the increasing demand for education. The 2008 edition of "Education at a Glance: OECD Indicators" enables countries to see themselves in the light of other countries' performance. It provides a rich, comparable…
Descriptors: Educational Indicators, Foreign Countries, Educational Demand, Educational Policy
Moccero, D. – OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2008
The Chilean authorities plan to raise budgetary allocations over the medium term for a variety of social programmes, including education, health care and housing. This incremental spending will need to be carried out in a cost-efficient manner to make sure that it yields commensurate improvements in social outcomes. Chile's health indicators show…
Descriptors: Health Services, Public Education, Housing, Foreign Countries
Zurn, Pascal; Dumont, Jean-Christophe – OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2008
This paper examines health workforce and migration policies in New Zealand, with a special focus on the international recruitment of doctors and nurses. The health workforce in New Zealand, as in all OECD countries, plays a central role in the health system. Nonetheless, maybe more than for any other OECD country, the health workforce in New…
Descriptors: Health Personnel, Physicians, Nurses, Immigration
Roberts, Sheridan – OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2008
This paper describes the findings of an OECD project examining ICT impact measurement and analyses based on official statistics. Both economic and social impacts are covered and some results are presented. It attempts to place ICT impacts measurement into an Information Society conceptual framework, provides some suggestions for standardising…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Foreign Countries, Sustainable Development, Measurement Techniques
Kingombe, Christian – OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2008
The impact of vocational training on economic growth and poverty reduction in African countries is unknown. Without such knowledge, however, countries and donors cannot formulate appropriate policies. Even the 35 countries surveyed in the 2008 "African Economic Outlook" can only supply approximate data. More and better data are needed to monitor…
Descriptors: Economic Progress, Vocational Education, Foreign Countries, Education Work Relationship
Aiken, Linda H.; Cheung, Robyn – OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2008
The United States has the largest professional nurse workforce in the world numbering close to 3 million but does not produce enough nurses to meet its growing demand. A shortage of close to a million professional nurses is projected to evolve by 2020. An emerging physician shortage will further exacerbate the nurse shortage as the boundaries in…
Descriptors: Nursing Education, Nurses, Educational Technology, Public Policy
van Beuzekom, Brigitte – OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2008
This paper reviews recent measurement work on User-Created Content (UCC) undertaken in OECD countries. It shows that UCC is emerging as a significant area of economic and social activity worthy of consideration for official measurement and discusses the implications for the OECD Model Survey on ICT Access and Use by Households and Individuals.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Information Technology, Access to Computers, Users (Information)
Lafon, Valerie, Ed. – OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2008
"IMHE-Info" is a newsletter published by the Institutional Management in Higher Education (IMHE) programme of OECD. This issue includes: (1) Breaking Ranks: Assessing Quality in Higher Education (Lyndon Thompson); (2) How to Improve Quality in Higher Education: A Study of Institutional Strategies; and (3) No More Ivory Towers: New Phase of Reviews…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Institutional Administration, Foreign Countries, Educational Quality
Lafon, Valerie, Ed. – OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2008
"IMHE-Info" is the newsletter published by the Institutional Management in Higher Education (IMHE) programme of OECD. This issue includes: (1) Tertiary Education for the Knowledge Society; (2) The Assessment of Higher Education Learning Outcomes (AHELO); and (3) City-Regions in Focus. Publications of interest, IMHE News, and a calendar of upcoming…
Descriptors: Governance, Educational Quality, Strategic Planning, Institutional Administration
Potter, Jonathan, Ed. – OECD Publishing (NJ3), 2008
Stimulating innovative and growth-oriented entrepreneurship is a key economic and societal challenge to which universities and colleges have much to contribute. This book examines the role that higher education institutions are currently playing through teaching entrepreneurship and transferring knowledge and innovation to enterprises and…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Higher Education, Innovation, Foreign Countries
OECD Publishing (NJ3), 2008
Many adults in OECD countries have low language, literacy and numeracy (LLN) skills. The consequences of these low foundation skills span the economic, health and social well-being of individuals, families and communities. Investment in this sector of adult education is therefore crucial. This study looks specifically inside the programmes for…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Formative Evaluation, Program Effectiveness, Foreign Countries
OECD Publishing (NJ3), 2008
As countries strive to reform education systems and improve student results, school leadership is high on education policy agendas. But in many countries, the men and women who run schools are overburdened, underpaid and near retirement. And few people are lining up for their jobs. Based on an OECD study of school leadership practices and policies…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Leadership Responsibility, Instructional Leadership, Educational Policy
Hopkins, David, Ed.; Nusche, Deborah, Ed.; Pont, Beatriz, Ed. – OECD Publishing (NJ3), 2008
This book explores what specialists are saying about system leadership for school improvement. Case studies examine innovative approaches to sharing leadership across schools in Belgium (Flanders), Finland and the United Kingdom (England) and leadership development programmes for system improvement in Australia and Austria. As these are emerging…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Case Studies, Educational Change, Leadership Responsibility
OECD Publishing (NJ3), 2008
This book provides an internationally comparable set of indicators on educational provision for students with disabilities, learning difficulties and disadvantages (DDD). It highlights the number of students involved, where they are educated--special schools, special classes or regular classes--and in what phases of education--pre-primary,…
Descriptors: Special Schools, Learning Problems, Educational Needs, Inclusive Schools
OECD Publishing (NJ3), 2008
Portugal's tertiary education sector has expanded significantly over the last 20 years, but participation and overall educational attainment levels remain below European standards and enrolment rates have begun to decline. The OECD review recommends that Portugal's national government should focus on strategic direction and leave higher education…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Attainment, Governance, Innovation
