Countries that have sustained rapid growth over decades have typically had a strong public commitment to expanding education as well as to improving learning outcomes. South Asian countries have made considerable progress in expanding access to primary and secondary schooling, with countries...

Developing, promoting and maintaining a good professional teaching workforce from primary to upper secondary education is a policy imperative for education systems around the world. The data drawn from the OECD Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS) can help policy makers and...

Die letzten Gesundheitsreformen hatten alle als wesentliche Bestandteile die Sicherstellung der Versorgung mit ausreichend und adäquat qualifiziertem Personal. In der Diskussion fehlt eine tiefergehende Auseinandersetzung mit den tatsächlichen und gefühlten Veränderungen der zukünftigen...

This paper describes the Occupational Information Network (O*NET), a relatively recent database containing measures of occupational characteristics produced by the United States Department of Labor as a replacement for the Dictionary of Occupational Titles. O*NET scores cover cognitive,...