Education is vital for economic success, both at the national and the individual level. But education also has significant social effects. This report is OECD’s first attempt to gather and synthesise developments in measuring these social effects. The report focuses on two broad areas: health,...

As human capital is the source of innovation, one of the policy principles of the OECD Innovation Strategy is to "foster innovative workplaces". Education and training systems must rise to the challenge of providing people with the means to learn and re-train throughout their life. Companies and...

How much choice should parents and pupils have over which school to attend? This question has been at the centre of some of the recent educational policy debates about the role of consumer preferences. In some OECD countries, rules allocating public school places according to residence have been...