<ul> <li>L’augmentation du nombre de diplômés de l’enseignement tertiaire ne semble pas avoir entraîné de phénomène d’« inflation » susceptible d’éroder la valeur de ce diplôme sur le marché du travail. Toutefois, les diplômés de l’enseignement tertiaire bénéficient de...</li></ul>

<ul> <li>Éducation et emploi : quelles différences entre les sexes ? Chez les 25-34 ans, les femmes sont plus nombreuses que les hommes à avoir un diplôme de l’enseignement tertiaire dans 33 des 36 pays disposant de données comparables.</li> <li>Des inégalités persistent entre les sexes dans certains...</li></ul>

<ul> <li> The annual number of teaching hours of teachers differs greatly from one country to another and tends to decrease as the level of education increases. </li> <li> On average across countries, teachers spend half of their working time in non-teaching activities including planning lessons, marking and...</li></ul>

This paper exploits data from the Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC) to shed light on the link between measured cognitive skills (proficiency), (formal) educational attainment and labour market outcomes. After presenting descriptive statistics on the degree of dispersion in the distributions of...

<ul> <li> While PISA reveals large gender differences in reading, in favour of 15-year-old girls, the gap is narrower when digital reading skills are tested. Indeed, the Survey of Adult Skills suggests that there are no significant gender differences in digital literacy proficiency among 16-29...</li></ul>

<ul> <li> Si l’enquête PISA révèle d’importants écarts de performance en compréhension de l’écrit entre les sexes – en faveur des filles – chez les élèves de 15 ans, ces écarts sont moindres lorsque ce sont les compétences en compréhension de l’écrit électronique qui sont...</li></ul>

This series is designed to make available to a wider readership selected studies drawing on the work of the OECD Directorate for Education. Authorship is usually collective, but principal writers are named. The papers are generally available only in their original language (English or French)...

It’s elementary: students benefit from pre-primary education. The OECD’s PISA 2009 results show that in practically all OECD countries 15-year-old students who had attended some pre-primary school outperformed students who had not. In fact, the difference between students who had attended...

Science project. The very phrase is nearly synonymous with hands-on learning, learning-by-doing, collaboration. Are students more engaged and do they perform better in science if their school encourages them to work on science projects, participate in science fairs, belong to a science-related...

School systems handle the challenges of diverse student populations in different ways. Some countries have non-selective and comprehensive school systems that seek to provide all students with similar opportunities, leaving it to individual schools and teachers to meet the particular needs of...