At the end of 1997, Korea was hit by a major financial and economic crisis, which resulted, among other things, in a huge rise in unemployment. The event caught the country’s labour and social institutions unprepared, so that many workers and their families were hit hard. The economy has now...

On associe souvent les pays de l’OCDE à des « sociétés en réseau » et cette évolution conduit à s’interroger sur le rôle des réseaux éducatifs. D’aucuns, comme le Professeur Michael Barber dans ce volume, prédisent l’effondrement des grands services publics, dont...

Getting off to a good start in one's working life facilitates integration into the world of work and lays the foundation for a good career, while a failure can be difficult to make up. This report on the UK report contains a survey of the main barriers to employment for young people, an...

OECD countries are increasingly referred to as "network societies". This prompts questions about educational networks: to what extent can they replace cumbersome bureaucracies as forms of management and as sources of innovation and professionalism? Some predict the demise of large, slow-changing...