The benefits of co-operative behaviours have been broadly documented in various social contexts, including neighbourhoods, hospitals, companies and in education. In education, when students, teachers, parents and the school principal know and trust each other, work together, and share...

In the growing world of digital technology everything is about speed: computer processors have doubled their performance every two years for decades; the future 5G mobile phone generation is predicted to be about 100 times faster than the current 4G and 20 000 times faster than the “ancient”...

Many (bad) things have happened to our planet since PISA asked students about the environment more than a decade ago. The global temperature increased, glaciers continued to melt, coral reefs became increasingly endangered, sea levels rose about 3 centimeters, garbage continued piling up in...

Les parents tissent souvent des relations enrichissantes avec les enseignants, les élèves et d’autres parents d’élèves dans les établissements scolaires de leur enfant. Ils peuvent ainsi nouer de nouvelles amitiés et contribuer au parcours scolaire de leur enfant, mais peuvent surtout...

Dans le monde en constante expansion de la technologie numérique, la vitesse est le maître-mot : les processeurs informatiques doublent leur performance tous les deux ans depuis des décennies ; la nouvelle génération de téléphonie mobile 5G devrait être environ 100 fois plus rapide que...

Notre planète a connu bien des transformations (négatives) depuis plus de 10 ans, lorsque l’enquête PISA interrogeait les élèves sur l’environnement. Augmentation de la température mondiale, fonte des glaciers, récifs coralliens toujours plus menacés, hausse d’environ 3...

Parents often establish fruitful relationships with teachers, students and other parents at their child’s school. By doing so, they might gain new friends and help their child’s academic career; but more crucially, they may contribute indirectly to the common good of the school – by...

Most students have the beliefs and dispositions to help them cope and learn in challenging situations. The current pandemic has been ongoing since early 2020. This has affected ways in which teaching and learning are organised. Schools have had to provide education in different ways from the...

This country review report offers an independent analysis of major issues facing the use of school resources in Colombia from an international perspective. It provides a description of national policies, an analysis of strengths and challenges, and a proposal of possible future approaches. The...