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• As Presidential Debate Highlights Need for Competition in U.S. Public Education, First-Ever Multi-National Study Shows Competition from Private Schools Improves Achievement for Both Public and Private School Students

  - 2008-10-16

  Countries with Higher Private School Enrollment Produce Higher Scores on the PISA International Test STANFORD, Calif. -- With both presidential candidates highlighting the critical need for competition in U.S. public education in their final national debate, a new multi-national study released today by Education Next shows that competition from...

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• ED in 08 to the Candidates Campaigning in The Buckeye State: Tell Americans How Their Kids Will Compete For Future Jobs

  - 2008-02-22

  To: STATE EDITORS Contact: Elizabeth Snyder, +1-202-384-5330, or Krista Zaharias, +1--202-552-4557, both of ED in '08 WASHINGTON, Feb. 22 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Officials from ED in 08 will be available in the Spin Room at the February 26th Democratic Presidential Debate at Cleveland State University in Cleveland, Ohio to discuss...

  Tags: education, job, OECD, Ohio, U.S.

• PISA 2006: Pedagogical or Political?

  - 2007-12-04

  BRUSSELS, December 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Education International, and its member organisations in the OECD and partner countries, are increasingly concerned about politicization of the results of the Programme for International Student Assessment PISA. With the release of the latest PISA...

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• Lack of investment behind skills shortage

  - 2007-11-01

  Lack of investment in vocational education and training VET over the past 11 years is the primary cause of the severe skills shortages impacting on the economy, according to the Australian Industry Group. AIG says Australia will need 270,000 more skilled workers over the next 10 years. Most will...

  Tags: Australia, education, FINANCE, Investment, OECD

• Childcare, the 'business case' and economic development: Canadian evidence, opportunities and challenges

  - 2007-10-01

  Abstract This paper reviews the evidence, opportunities, and challenges associated with the business case for childcare in Canada. In Canada, as in the US, childcare is increasingly framed by the state, business spokespeople, and social actors through economic idioms. In Canada, the business case for childcare authorizes more policy...

  Tags: benefit, Canada, education, G., investment, M., OECD, Quality, Toronto, women

• Access to Higher Education is Essential for Democracy as Well as Prosperity, Says Education International.

  - 2007-09-19

  BRUSSELS, September 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Education International is concerned that the OECD's policies are paving the way for increased privatisation of education, especially at the tertiary level, instead of promoting greater access to quality public education. "Financing higher education through...

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• Lack of foresight behind skills shortage: workforce planning requires vision and foresight, attributes that have been sadly lacking in Australia over the past 10 years as our desperate skills shortage shows

  - 2007-07-01

  The Lamp begins a series of features exploring key issues for nurses in this year's federal election. This month we look at education and the consequences of the lack of investment in our TAFEs and universities. A doubling of investment in Vocational and Educational Training VET would add $1...

  Tags: Australia, education, investment, Lamp, OECD, training, vision, workforce

• When is an auditor really a regulator? The metamorphosis of the Australian Universities Quality Agency: implications for Australian higher education public policy

  - 2007-07-01

  The Australian Universities Quality Agency AUQA is a company owned by national, state and territory Ministers of Education. It is not a de jure regulatory authority. This article argues, however, that AUQA performs an important de facto public regulatory role in respect of the performance of various institutions, and that...

  Tags: accountability, agency, audit, education, FINANCE, OECD, performance, QA, Quality, Reform, regulation, regulator, standards

• US school students don't count in international class

  - 2007-05-29

  PARIS AFP — School students in the United States think they are just great at mathematics: but by the age of 14 they are two years behind the level in other industrialised countries and overall come 24th in a class of 29. The causes are perplexing. But a central...

  Tags: education, mathematics, OECD, U.S.

• Grey power; Italian education.

  - 2007-04-28

  Little maids from lousy schools The biggest fault in Italian education is that there are too many old teachers THE Bar Cristal, beneath an elevated section of Rome's inner ringway, caters mostly to travellers from the nearby bus and rail stations....

  Tags: education, Italy, OECD, teacher