Tuesday, September 16, 2008
[IWS] OECD: TERTIARY EDUCATION for the KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY [16 September 2008]
IWS Documented News Service
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Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor---------------------- Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
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Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
Tertiary Education for the Knowledge Society: [16 September 2008]
VOLUME 1 : Special features: Governance, Funding, Quality -
VOLUME 2: Special features: Equity, Innovation, Labour Market, Internationalisation
http://www.oecd.org/document/35/0,3343,en_2649_39263238_36021283_1_1_1_1,00.html
Complete executive summary
http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/36/18/41303688.pdf
[full-text, 11 pages]
Executive summary [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 before. 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 contributes to social and economic development through four major missions:
* The formation of human capital (primarily through teaching);
* The building of knowledge bases (primarily through research and knowledge development);
* The dissemination and use of knowledge (primarily through interactions with knowledge users); and
* The maintenance of knowledge (inter-generational storage and transmission of knowledge).
Table of contents
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Executive summary
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Chapter 1. Introduction
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Chapter 2. Setting the Stage: Impact, Trends and Challenges of Tertiary Education
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Chapter 3. Setting the Right Course: Steering Tertiary Education .
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Chapter 4. Matching Funding Strategies with National Priorities
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Chapter 5. Assuring and Improving Quality
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Chapter 6. Achieving Equity
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Chapter 7. Enhancing the Role of Tertiary Education in Research and Innovation .
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Chapter 8. The Academic Career: Adapting to Change .
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Chapter 9. Strengthening Ties with the Labour Market
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Chapter 10. Internationalisation: Shaping Strategies in the National Context
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Chapter 11. What Next? The Challenges of Policy Implementation
Press Release 16 September 2008
Be more purposeful in guiding tertiary education, OECD tells governments
http://www.oecd.org/document/12/0,3343,en_2649_34487_41313740_1_1_1_1,00.html
Subscribers and readers at subscribing institutions can access the full-text online edition via SourceOECD, the OECD online library.
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This information is provided to subscribers, friends, faculty, students and alumni of the School of Industrial & Labor Relations (ILR). It is a service of the Institute for Workplace Studies (IWS) in New York City. Stuart Basefsky is responsible for the selection of the contents which is intended to keep researchers, companies, workers, and governments aware of the latest information related to ILR disciplines as it becomes available for the purposes of research, understanding and debate. The content does not reflect the opinions or positions of Cornell University, the School of Industrial & Labor Relations, or that of Mr. Basefsky and should not be construed as such. The service is unique in that it provides the original source documentation, via links, behind the news and research of the day. Use of the information provided is unrestricted. However, it is requested that users acknowledge that the information was found via the IWS Documented News Service.
Stuart Basefsky
Director, IWS News Bureau
Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell/ILR School
16 E. 34th Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10016
Telephone: (607) 255-2703
Fax: (607) 255-9641
E-mail: smb6@cornell.edu
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_______________________________
Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor---------------------- Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
________________________________________________________________________
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
Tertiary Education for the Knowledge Society: [16 September 2008]
VOLUME 1 : Special features: Governance, Funding, Quality -
VOLUME 2: Special features: Equity, Innovation, Labour Market, Internationalisation
http://www.oecd.org/document/35/0,3343,en_2649_39263238_36021283_1_1_1_1,00.html
Complete executive summary
http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/36/18/41303688.pdf
[full-text, 11 pages]
Executive summary [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 before. 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 contributes to social and economic development through four major missions:
* The formation of human capital (primarily through teaching);
* The building of knowledge bases (primarily through research and knowledge development);
* The dissemination and use of knowledge (primarily through interactions with knowledge users); and
* The maintenance of knowledge (inter-generational storage and transmission of knowledge).
Table of contents
*
Executive summary
*
Chapter 1. Introduction
*
Chapter 2. Setting the Stage: Impact, Trends and Challenges of Tertiary Education
*
Chapter 3. Setting the Right Course: Steering Tertiary Education .
*
Chapter 4. Matching Funding Strategies with National Priorities
*
Chapter 5. Assuring and Improving Quality
*
Chapter 6. Achieving Equity
*
Chapter 7. Enhancing the Role of Tertiary Education in Research and Innovation .
*
Chapter 8. The Academic Career: Adapting to Change .
*
Chapter 9. Strengthening Ties with the Labour Market
*
Chapter 10. Internationalisation: Shaping Strategies in the National Context
*
Chapter 11. What Next? The Challenges of Policy Implementation
Press Release 16 September 2008
Be more purposeful in guiding tertiary education, OECD tells governments
http://www.oecd.org/document/12/0,3343,en_2649_34487_41313740_1_1_1_1,00.html
Subscribers and readers at subscribing institutions can access the full-text online edition via SourceOECD, the OECD online library.
.
______________________________
This information is provided to subscribers, friends, faculty, students and alumni of the School of Industrial & Labor Relations (ILR). It is a service of the Institute for Workplace Studies (IWS) in New York City. Stuart Basefsky is responsible for the selection of the contents which is intended to keep researchers, companies, workers, and governments aware of the latest information related to ILR disciplines as it becomes available for the purposes of research, understanding and debate. The content does not reflect the opinions or positions of Cornell University, the School of Industrial & Labor Relations, or that of Mr. Basefsky and should not be construed as such. The service is unique in that it provides the original source documentation, via links, behind the news and research of the day. Use of the information provided is unrestricted. However, it is requested that users acknowledge that the information was found via the IWS Documented News Service.
Stuart Basefsky
Director, IWS News Bureau
Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell/ILR School
16 E. 34th Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10016
Telephone: (607) 255-2703
Fax: (607) 255-9641
E-mail: smb6@cornell.edu
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