<ul> <li> While most 15-year-old students spend part of their after-school time doing homework, the amount of time they spend on it shrank between 2003 and 2012. </li> <li> Socio-economically advantaged students and students who attend socio-economically advantaged schools tend to spend more time doing homework.</li>...</ul>

<ul> <li> Si après leur journée d’école, la plupart des élèves de 15 ans consacrent une partie de leur temps à faire leurs devoirs, ce temps a néanmoins diminué entre 2003 et 2012. </li> <li> Les élèves issus d’un milieu socio-économique favorisé et ceux qui fréquentent un établissement...</li></ul>

<ul> <li> Rising levels of tertiary attainment seem not to have led to an “inflation” eroding the labour-market value of qualifications. However, tertiary graduates have the highest relative earnings advantage when they live in a country with low tertiary attainment rates. </li> <li> On average, compared to...</li></ul>

This report is an assessment of the programme “Lernen vor Ort” [LvO – “Learning Locally”] initiated by the German federal government in order to support the development of local governance structures in education. LvO ran between 2009 and 2014 in about 40 participating local...

<ul> <li> Greater anxiety towards mathematics is associated with lower scores in mathematics, both between and within countries. </li> <li>The better a student’s schoolmates perform in mathematics, the greater the student’s anxiety towards mathematics. </li> <li>Teachers’ use of formative assessment practices is...</li></ul>

Teachers in Brazil, Chile and Mexico report having high percentages of students with behavioural problems in their classes. Especially in Brazil, teachers report spending large amounts of time keeping order in the classroom. Besides potentially significantly reducing instructional time and...

The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has linked data from the Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS) of teachers of 15-year-old students with school-level data from the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), a survey of 15-year-old...

<ul> <li>The number of tertiary educated young people (25-34 years old) in OECD and G20 countries has grown by nearly 45% in the past decade and is expected to keep growing until 2030.</li><li> If current trends continue, the contribution of OECD countries to the global talent pool will keep shrinking through...</li></ul>

This paper presents the findings based on case studies of the educational systems of England and of the Canadian province of Ontario, as part of a research project funded by the Thomas J. Alexander Fellowship Programme.1 This research project aims to provide inputs to policymakers and school...

<ul> <li> In Denmark, Finland, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden, participation rates in adult education and learning are over 60%, but they are one-third – or below – in Italy, the Russian Federation and the Slovak Republic. </li> <li> The more highly educated adults are, the more likely they are to...</li></ul>