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Ensuring the tide lifts all boats : Improving quality and equity in schools across New Zealand

Haugh, David - 2024

The education policy framework and New Zealand’s autonomous school system have many strengths and centres of excellence. New Zealand has a deep pool of highly talented and motivated teaching professionals, but the system is performing below potential. Student achievement is declining and...

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Education Reform in Korea

Jones, Randall S. - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013

promote inclusive growth, notably by: i) improving the access of low-income children to high-quality ECEC; ii) reducing …

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Labour market and education reforms are needed to create more and better jobs in Türkiye

Dlugosch, Dennis - 2023

The Turkish economy grew strongly over the past two decades and created many jobs. However, given its young and growing workforce, Türkiye needs to ramp up efforts to achieve high-quality formal job creation. A sizeable share of the workforce, mostly female workers, does not actively...

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Policies to increase youth employment in Korea

Jones, Randall S... - 2022

Korea’s low youth employment rate has negative consequences for the young people concerned and the economy as a whole. Raising youth employment is a priority, particularly as Korea faces the most rapid population ageing among OECD countries. Low youth employment is due to a mismatch between...

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Education Reform in Japan

Jones, Randall S. - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2011

While Japan has achieved outstanding scores on the PISA exams, further improving educational outcomes is important to sustain growth in the face of rapid population ageing. The government should step up investment in early childhood education and care and integrate childcare and kindergarten to...

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Improving Educational Outcomes in Slovenia

Eris, Mehmet - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2011

Overall, the education system fares well by international comparison. Slovenia has one of the highest shares of the population aged 25 to 64 to have completed at least upper secondary education, and ranks high in international educational achievement tests. Nevertheless, in some areas, reforms...

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Do the Average Level and Dispersion of Socio-Economic Background Measures Explain France's Gap in PISA Scores?

Boulhol, Hervé; Sicari, Patrizio - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013

OECD’s PISA publications highlight the impact of economic, social and cultural status (ESCS) on students’ results within countries. The focus here is to investigate whether ESCS measures could contribute to differences in aggregate educational outcomes between countries. There is some...

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Reforming Education in England

Braconier, Henrik - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2012

spending. More focused pre-school spending on disadvantaged children could improve skill formation. Better-targeted funding for … disadvantaged children combined with strengthened incentives for schools to attract and support these students would help raising …, but needs to closely follow effects on fair access for disadvantaged children. The impact of increasing user choice on …

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Improving the Economic Situation of Young People in France

Boulhol, Hervé - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013

The economic situation of young people is unsatisfactory. Educational inequalities have been widening for over a decade, due to a sharp decline in the results of the most highly disadvantaged students. The unemployment rate for the 20-24 age bracket has not dropped below 16% for nearly 30 years....

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Improving School-to-work Transitions in New Zealand

Bibbee, Alexandra - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013

student needs and learning approaches to keep children in school. A related problem is the apparently large divergence between …

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