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Learning a Living : First Results of the Adult Literacy and Life Skills Survey

2005

Based on the Adult Literacy and Life Skills survey conducted in Bermuda, Canada, Italy, Mexico (Nuevo Leon), Norway, and the United States of America in 2003 and 2004, this book presents an initial set of findings that shed new light on the twin processes of skill gain and loss. The book opens...

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An Innovative School in Torcy, France

1999

The Torcy Junior High School is located on the outskirts of the new town of Marne la Vallée in the Paris suburbs, between a motorway and a stretch of ordinary countryside on a site overlooking a small lake. Special attention was paid to its geographic setting and to the various aspects of its...

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Innovation in the knowledge economy : implications for education and learning

2004

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Improving Agricultural Knowledge and Innovation Systems : OECD Conference Proceedings

2012

This conference proceedings from the OECD Conference on Agricultural Knowledge Systems (AKS), held in Paris, on 15 …

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Pathways to Success : How Knowledge and Skills at Age 15 Shape Future Lives in Canada

2010

Presents the findings of Canada's Youth in Transition Survey, which complements OECD's PISA survey and offers significant new policy insights in understanding students’ choices at different ages and the impact of these decisions on consequent education and labour market outcomes. YITS is a...

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OECD Data on Skills : Employment by Industry and Occupation

1998

This document is aimed at disseminating to a wider public the data on employment by industry and occupations for ten OECD countries, that have been collected over the last few years in the context of analytical work aimed at exploring empirically the changing patterns of skills in OECD...

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New Perspectives on ICT Skills and Employment

2005

This report provides an overview of ICT skills and employment across OECD economies and analyses some of the impacts on economic performance. It presents a new approach to capturing the diffusion of ICTs in the economy.

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Regional Competitiveness and Skills

1997

Human resources, training, qualifications and skills play an essential part in the development of regional economies. The notion of "learning" regions which has now become self-evident has yet to be translated into practice: but under which conditions and what are the priorities? This...

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Literacy, Numeracy and Problem Solving in Technology-Rich Environments : Framework for the OECD Survey of Adult Skills

2012

A basic level of literacy and numeracy is essential for full participation in modern societies. While very few people in most of the advanced countries could be regarded as illiterate or innumerate, recent studies have shown that there are, in fact, significant numbers of people with poor...

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Knowledge and Skills for Life : First Results from PISA 2000

2001

Knowledge and Skills for Life assesses how far students near the end of compulsory education (15-year-olds) have … acquired some of the knowledge and skills that are essential for full participation in society. It presents evidence on student … in levels of knowledge and skills between students, schools and countries. The extent to which the socio …

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