Education and skills
TUAC engages with the OECD’s work on both initial education and on adult learning, participating in the meetings of the OECD’s Skills Advisory Group, Education Policy Committee, the Centre for Educational Research and Innovation Governing Board, and their respective working parties.
Key priorities include advocating for greater OECD recognition and discussion of policy measures to facilitate and improve access to lifelong learning opportunities and strengthening the OECD’s calls for investment to improve equity in education and the working conditions of teachers.
TUAC’s work on education and skills is led by Sarah Jameson. For more information, please contact jameson@tuac.org.
Download (182.25 KB)OECD Turns Spotlight on Low and Stalling Social Mobility
The recent OECD report on social mobility, “A Broken Social Elevator? How to Promote Social Mobility”, describes how inequality tends to regenerate itself over the course of a life-time as well as over the next generation. To read the analysis from the TUAC secretariat, see the ...
“Social Policy for Shared Prosperity in a Changing World of Work”, TUAC contribution to the OECD Ministerial on Social Policy
A TUAC delegation, headed by Jorunn Berland (Vice President TUAC and YS-NW) and including Larry Rousseau (Executive Vice President of CLC), is participating in the Social Policy Ministerial on the future of social protection in Montréal, 15th of May. See attached for the TUAC policy document. ...
TUAC and PSI Position on Sustainable Access to Innovative Treatment
PISA: Collaborative Problem Solving
Report link Collaborative problem solving was an additional optional assessment introduced for PISA 2015. A large number of countries adopted it as an additional assessment. PISA 2015 defines collaborative problem solving as the capacity of an individual to effectively engage in a process whereby ...
PISA 2015 Results. Student Well-Being. Volume 3.
On Wednesday April 19th, the OECD is releasing its third volume of the PISA 2015 results. This volume focuses on the results of its student questionnaire which accompanied the main student assessment. The main take-aways are as follows: The OECD’s definition of life satisfaction focuses on ...
