Ever since I started teaching in 1990, I have been a student voice advocate. Whether it was as a media/English teacher, student leadership advisor or a site leader. I have always believed that students not only have good ideas, but that they may just have new, unique or even better ones. In an effort...

By Andreas SchleicherDirector, Directorate for Education and SkillsPreparing today’s students to thrive in their society is no easy task. The skills and knowledge they’ll need to succeed in the future are constantly changing, while others are quickly being digitised, automated or outsourced.This puts...

There is presumably that our lives have turned into a great deal simpler in view of innovation. These days, we have a great deal of up and coming and computerized methods for getting things done. For example, today, we can store an immense measure of information on little chips called memory cards....

There are numerous sorts of individuals working in an office domain, some need quiet to draw out their inventiveness while some like turmoil to fuel their motivation. While that sounds fairly obvious, it barely works in an expert domain where individuals get the correct profitability instruments for...

To the extent the security of indispensable data goes, it's critical that entrepreneurs find a way to ensure that the information is moved down all the time. Shockingly, only 50% of the organizations ensure that their information is went down on a normal premise. Now and again, the experts are not sufficiently...

by Francesca BorgonoviSenior AnalystLarge-scale migration is starting to radically alter the makeup of today’s classrooms, bringing a new wave of social, cultural and linguistic diversity to schools in destination countries. Results from the latest publication of the Strength through Diversity project,...

by Anna Choi Analyst, Economist/Analyst at CFE/LESI (Local employment, skills, and social innovation)The notion of well-being and happiness has increasingly taken centre stage in our societies over the recent years. As Nobel Prize Economist Daniel Kahneman puts it, "there is a huge wave of interest...

By Andreas SchleicherDirector, Directorate for Education and SkillsPhoto credit: Jun TakaiInnovation and problem solving depend increasingly on the ability to synthesise disparate elements to create something different and unexpected. This involves curiosity, open-mindedness and making connections between...

(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Deadline: 30 April 2018The next big thing could come from you! Facebook and Twitter started as student projects. Your ideas could be next! If you’ve got a great idea, assemble a great team and work hard to bring that idea to life. Your project...

(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); The Western Union Foundation Global Scholarship Program, also referred to as WU Scholars, is a program designed to support young people and their efforts to pursue a post-secondary education.The Institute of International Education, Inc. (IIE), a US...

  by Eric Charbonnier, Analyst, Directorate for Education and SkillsWe are in 1961. JF Kennedy is president and has just designated Eleanor Roosevelt as chairwoman of the new US Commission on the Status of Women: "We want to be sure that women are used as effectively as they can to provide a better...

Application Deadline: Varying by CourseSingapore and ICAO jointly established a Developing Countries Training Programme (DCTP) in 2001 which is sponsored by the Singapore Government and administered by the ICAO Technical Cooperation Bureau for specialised training programmes conducted by the Singapore...

(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Application Deadline: 1st May, 2018Enter the Journalism Now Scholar competition for the chance to win an all-expenses-paid place on the 2018Thomson Foundation summer course.Journalism Now is a series of online interactive courses designed and led by...