Universal Basic Skills : What Countries Stand to Gain

Universal Basic Skills What Countries Stand to Gain

While access to schooling has expanded around the world, many countries have not realised the hoped-for improvements in economic and social well-being. Access to education by itself is an incomplete goal for development; many students leave the education system without basic proficiency in literacy...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
Autores Corporativos: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (-), Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Content Provider (content provider), Organisation for Economic Co operation and Development Content Provider
Otros Autores: Hanushek, Eric A. 1943- author (author), Hanushek, Eric A. (-), Woessmann, Ludger
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Paris : OECD Publishing 2015.
Materias:
Education
Education and state > Effect of education on
Economic development
Education, Special Topics
Social Sciences
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009706015806719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • What achieving universal basic skills means for the economy and for education
  • Sharing the benefits of universal basic skills
  • Distance from the goal of basic skills for all
  • The goal: Every young person acquires basic skills
  • Economic impacts of achieving the basic skills goal by 2030
  • The case for promoting universal basic skills
  • Relationship between skills and economic growth
  • Foreword
  • Executive summary
  • Editorial
  • Augmented neoclassical results
  • Distribution of skills when goal of universal basic skills is achieved
  • Sample of PISA questions requiring Level 1 skills
  • Review of knowledge capital and growth
  • Transforming performance in TIMSS onto the PISA scale.

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