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By international standards, Norway has an inclusive education system. However, immigrant students, on average, have … weaker education outcomes than their native peers at all levels of education. Norway is undertaking universal and targeted …
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Virtual worlds are increasingly evolving into Internet-mediated “spaces”, where large groups of people meet and interact in real-time while experiencing a shared sensation of being there together. This enables richer and more dynamic social interaction and collaboration across national and...
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Learning resources are often considered key intellectual property in a competitive higher education world. However, more and more institutions and individuals are sharing their digital learning resources over the Internet, openly and for free, as Open Educational Resources (OER). This study,...
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Whether in flight from conflict, with the hope of building a better life, or to seize a social or economic opportunity, people have been crossing borders for as long as there have been borders to cross. Modern means of transportation and communication, the globalisation of the labour market, and...
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Drawing on data from the OECD’s Programme for International Students Assessment (PISA), this report examines the performance of students with immigrant backgrounds and compares it to that of their native counterparts. As well as providing information on countries’ approaches to the...
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This conference proceedings provides the papers presented at the OECD/European Commission joint seminar on Naturalisation and the Socio-Economic Integration of Immigrants and their Children held in October 2010 in Brussels. It takes stock of the current knowledge regarding the links between...
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Migrants contribute to the economic growth of their host countries in many ways, bringing new skills and competencies … with them and helping to reduce labour shortages. An aspect that has received only limited attention up to now is migrants … growth and job creation. In addition, increasing awareness of the positive role that migrants can play as entrepreneurs could …
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