Download or read book OECD Reviews of Tertiary Education Iceland 2008 written by Neave Guy and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2008-08-20 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In many OECD countries, tertiary education systems have experienced rapid growth over the last decade. With tertiary education increasingly seen as a fundamental pillar for economic growth, these systems must now address the pressures of a ...
Download or read book OECD Reviews of Tertiary Education written by Oecd Publishing and published by Organization for Economic. This book was released on 2008 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The principal objective of the review is to assist countries in understanding how the organisation, management and delivery of tertiary education can help them achieve their economic and social goals. Iceland is one of 14 countries which opted to host a Country Review, in which a team of external reviewers carried out an in-depth analysis of tertiary education policies. This report includes: an overview of Icelandâs tertiary education system; an account of trends and developments in tertiary education in Iceland; an analysis of the strengths and challenges in tertiary education in Iceland; and recommendations for future policy development. [Back cover].
Download or read book OECD Reviews of Tertiary Education Croatia 2008 written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2008-08-20 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In many OECD countries, tertiary education systems have experienced rapid growth over the last decade. With tertiary education increasingly seen as a fundamental pillar for economic growth, these systems must now address the pressures of a ...
Download or read book OECD Reviews of Tertiary Education New Zealand 2008 written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2008-07-10 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In many OECD countries, tertiary education systems have experienced rapid growth over the last decade. With tertiary education increasingly seen as a fundamental pillar for economic growth, these systems must now address the pressures of a ...
Download or read book The Human Rights Based Approach to Higher Education written by Jane Kotzmann and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-05 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A human right to higher education was included in the International Covenant on Economic Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR), which came into force in 1976. Yet the world has changed significantly since the ICESCR was drafted. State legislation and policies have generally followed a neoliberal trajectory, shifting the perception of higher education from being a public good to being a commodity able to be bought and sold. This model has been criticized, particularly because it generally reinforces social inequality. At the same time, attaining higher education has become more important than ever before. Higher education is a prerequisite for many jobs and those who have attained higher education enjoy improved life circumstances. This book seeks to determine: Is there still a place for the human right to higher education in the current international context? In seeking to answer this question, this book compares and contrasts two general theoretical models that are used to frame higher education policy: the market-based approach and the human rights-based approach. In the process, it contributes to an understanding of the likely effectiveness of market-based versus human rights-based approaches to higher education provision in terms of teaching and learning. This understanding should enable the development of more improved, sophisticated, and ultimately successful higher education policies. This book contends that a human rights-based approach to higher education policy is more likely to enable the achievement of higher education purposes than a market-based approach. In reaching this conclusion, the book identifies and addresses some strategic considerations of relevance for advocates of a human rights-based approach in this context.
Download or read book OECD Reviews of Tertiary Education Tertiary Education for the Knowledge Society Volume 1 and Volume 2 written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2008-09-16 with total page 723 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tertiary Education for the Knowledge Society provides a thorough international investigation of tertiary education policy across its many facets – governance, funding, quality assurance, equity, research and innovation, academic career, links to the labour market and internationalisation.
Download or read book Quality Assurance in Higher Education written by Stamelos Georgios and published by Studera Press. This book was released on 2017-01-30 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The significant growth of number of students enrolled in tertiary education institutions in the recent past decades has caused an unprecedented expansion of higher education systems. The rapid and constant social, economic and technological mutations and international competition make the importance of qualitatively well-educated citizenry and labor forces very decisive. Globalization has developed a powerful impact on the development of higher education and imposes new challenges for the organization (standards, financing, regulations). Systems of higher education tend to detach from the national models and adopt a more "global" orientation. The implementation of quality assurance is one of the recent and most decisive transformations of higher education. Different higher education systems are trying to develop assessment tools (internal and external) to improve the quality of teaching, research and extension activities, and these are either based on experiences of selected countries or are extensively country specific. The quality assurance procedures that were often dependent on national directorial traditions have gradually tended to converge and led to a setup of common tools and standards. Countries under a centralized system tend to impose a uniform and general model while decentralized systems give greater freedom to universities to set up their own quality. International rankings of universities also contribute to impose a set of transnational standards and values, which is also being considered as indicative by the stakeholders. The present book tries to look at the quality assurance mechanism, international rankings and its impact in both absolute and comparative fashion in context of 11 countries from different parts of the world.
Download or read book Education at a Glance 2008 OECD Indicators written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2008-09-08 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rich, comparable and up-to-date array of indicators on the performance of education systems in OECD countries.
Download or read book OECD Reviews of Tertiary Education Poland 2007 written by Fulton Oliver and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2007-09-19 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In many OECD countries, tertiary education systems have experienced rapid growth over the last decade. With tertiary education increasingly seen as a fundamental pillar for economic growth, these systems must now address the pressures of a ...
Download or read book Highlights from Education at a Glance 2008 written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2009-02-11 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This introduction to OECD’s collection of internationally comparable data on education and learning includes data on enrolment and attainment, impacts on jobs and incomes, educational spending, class size and instruction time, and performance of education systems.
Download or read book Iceland written by International Monetary Fund. European Dept. and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2013-08-07 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Selected Issues paper analyses the impact of a potential rebalancing of Icelandic residents’ investment portfolios as capital controls are lifted. It applies optimal portfolio theory to calculate the potential rebalancing toward foreign assets, and then makes an estimate of the cumulative impact on the balance of payments and international reserves. Conclusions for the authorities’ capital account liberalization strategy are drawn. This paper also measures the potential budgetary savings from improving the efficiency of public spending in health and education in Iceland. A Data Envelopment Analysis is used to estimate an efficiency frontier by comparing across Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development countries the transformation rates of public spending into valuable social outcomes.
Download or read book Education Policy Outlook 2019 Working Together to Help Students Achieve their Potential written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2019-09-16 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking the perspective of institutions and the system, Education Policy Outlook 2019: Working Together to Help Students Achieve their Potential, analyses the evolution of key education priorities and key education policies in 43 education systems. It compares more recent developments in education policy ecosystems (mainly between 2015 and 2019) with various education policies adopted between 2008 and 2014.
Download or read book OECD Reviews of Tertiary Education OECD Reviews of Tertiary Education Netherlands 2008 written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2008-10-16 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive review of Dutch tertiary education, with the objective of helping the Netherlands achieve economic and social goals.
Download or read book OECD Reviews of Tertiary Education Norway 2009 written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2009-12-21 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides an overview of Norway's tertiary education system including an account of recent trends and developments, an analysis of strengths and challenges, and recommmedations for future policy development.
Download or read book OECD Reviews of Tertiary Education Tertiary Education for the Knowledge Society written by Paulo Santiago and published by Org. for Economic Cooperation & Development. This book was released on 2008-09-22 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tertiary-education policy is increasingly important on national agendas. The widespread recognition that tertiary education is a major driver of economic competitiveness in an increasingly knowledge-driven global economy has made high-quality tertiary education more important than ever. The imperative for countries is to raise higher-level employment skills, to sustain a globally competitive research base and to improve knowledge dissemination to the benefit of society. Tertiary Education for the Knowledge Society provides a thorough international investigation of tertiary education policy across its many facets – governance, funding, quality assurance, equity, research and innovation, academic career, links to the labour market and internationalisation. The report presents: · an analysis of the trends and developments in tertiary education; · a synthesis of research-based evidence on the impact of tertiary-education policies; · innovative and successful policies and practices that countries have implemented; and · tertiary-education policy options. The report draws on the results of a major OECD review of tertiary education policy – the OECD Thematic Review of Tertiary Education -- conducted over the 2004-08 period in collaboration with 24 countries around the world. FURTHER READING A companion series - OECD Reviews of Tertiary Education - offers an in-depth analysis of tertiary education policies in each of the 14 countries which opted for a country review: China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Japan, Korea, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland and Spain. www.oecd.org/edu/tertiary/review.
Download or read book OECD Reviews of Tertiary Education Estonia 2007 written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2007-09-14 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In many OECD countries, tertiary education systems have experienced rapid growth over the last decade. With tertiary education increasingly seen as a fundamental pillar for economic growth, these systems must now address the pressures of a ...
Download or read book OECD Reviews of Innovation Policy Norway 2008 written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2008-07-01 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive assessment of the innovation system of Norway, focusing on the role of government and including concrete recommendations for improvements.
