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Jenny Anderson reports the vision of Mr. Andreas Schleicher, of testing soft skills of students as well as their hard skills. As the head of the education division at the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), he envisions measuring these skills in the future cycles of the PISA study, and increasing the roles of these skills in the world's educational systems.
Join the American Institutes for Research for a presentation and discussion on socioeconomic inequality and educational outcomes based on evidence from data of twenty years from the TIMSS study.
Food for the Hungry is seeking for a Director of Education Programs in its Education department.
USAID has offered funding opportunity at Development Innovation Ventures (DIV) program encouraging innovative solutions for the development of basic education.
Nick Chambers, in this article, highlights that there exists a gap between children's career aspirations and the demand of human resource in jobs of the future. These aspirations are influenced by factors such as gender, children's role models, and their socioeconomic status.