Promoting a smooth transition from school to work, and ensuring that youth are given the opportunities to move on in … people have borne much of the brunt of the recent jobs crisis. The youth unemployment rate is approaching 20% in the OECD … area, with nearly 4 million more youth among the unemployed than at the end of 2007. The initial experience in the labour …

In November 2000, the City of Bologna, Italy, welcomed a conference entitled “Living as Students”. The event was part …

Across OECD countries, almost one in every five students does not reach a basic minimum level of skills. In addition …, students from disadvantaged socio-economic backgrounds are twice as likely to be low performers. Lack of fairness and inclusion …

, parents and students struggle to determine the merits of shorter or longer school days or school years, how much time should … how students use learning time, both in and out of school. What are the ideal conditions to ensure that students use their … learning time efficiently? What can schools do to maximise the learning that occurs during the limited amount of time students …

will also learn how students reacted to the electronic questionnaire and how it compared with pencil-and-paper tests. In … general, there were no group differences across test methods buts students enjoyed the computer-based test more than the paper …