Finland’s Education System: The Journey to Success When Finnish students scored amongst the top in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA, a very influential international assessment administered by the OECD) in 2001, many people in the field of education were intrigued. How could this small nation, which had not been characterized by surprisingly highContinue reading “Education Systems – News and Research 106”
Lead article in Education Economics: Returns to investment in education
Lead article in Education Economics: #Returns to investment in #education: a decennial review of the global literature, with George Psacharopoulos https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/eWUiFQKU8Ey2WsNxZUSX/full … https://twitter.com/hpatrinos/status/1028643268349837312
Blockchain in Education, and other News and Research 105
Last week at the World Bank we had a very well attended seminar on the story of blockchain in education. It featured a presentation by Natalie Smolenski (Anthropologist and Vice President, Business Development Department, Learning Machine), followed by remarks by Juliana Guaqueta. The session, “Practical lessons from the use of blockchain in education: Digital certificatesContinue reading “Blockchain in Education, and other News and Research 105”
Global Education Quality News and Research 104
Global education quality in 4 charts – Over the last century countries around the world have made huge progress in the expansion of schooling: While in 1870 there were just a few countries in which the average person had more than 4 years of education, today there are few countries in which the population hasContinue reading “Global Education Quality News and Research 104”
Human Capital News and Research 103
Just published! With George Psacharopoulos: Returns to investment in education: a decennial review of the global literature The Educate Girls DIB exceeded its goals: How did they do it and what does it mean? The first year was a scramble to get the program up and running, year two was full of stops and starts — itContinue reading “Human Capital News and Research 103”
Human Capital News and Research 102
Can Wall Street Learn to Love Human Capital? Last week at the New York Stock Exchange, JUST Capital, a not-for-profit organization, rang the opening bell. The celebration was to draw attention to their unlikely partnership with Goldman Sachs and the launch of an ETF that enables investors to put money behind an index rated on aContinue reading “Human Capital News and Research 102”
Human Capital News and Research 101
Education and wage inequality before and during the fiscal crisis The Greek labour market has undergone dramatic changes during the last 10 years. Wage inequality, especially at the bottom end of the earnings distribution, increased sharply. At the same time, the past trend towards educational upgrading of the labour force has further been boosted. InContinue reading “Human Capital News and Research 101”
Four Education Trends that Countries Everywhere Should Know About (News and Research 100)
Four Education Trends that Countries Everywhere Should Know About Recently, we reached out to education experts around the world to hear what they considered the most pressing issues facing our sector today. Surprisingly, they all said that little has changed in terms of our most common challenges. What was changing, they agreed, were the innovativeContinue reading “Four Education Trends that Countries Everywhere Should Know About (News and Research 100)”
Automation and Education (News and Research 99)
Automation and labor market outcomes: the pivotal role of high-quality education Automation will be a boon or a catastrophe depending on whom you listen to. This paper proposes an overlapping-generations model with endogenous school choice in which the quality of a country’s education system determines how well skill supply can respond to increased demand fromContinue reading “Automation and Education (News and Research 99)”
Human Capital (News and Research 98)
“Governments in pursuit of economic growth love to invest in physical capital… But they are typically far less interested in investing in human capital… That’s a mistake” @JimYongKim: The Human Capital Gap: Getting Governments to Invest in People Journal of Human Capital Volume 12, Number 2 | Summer 2018 Celebrating the Life and Work of Gary BeckerContinue reading “Human Capital (News and Research 98)”
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