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  • Japanese students improve in 3 OECD competence tests

    JAPAN, 2010/12/08 Japan’s 15-year-old school pupils showed improved reading, math and science skills in international competence tests in 2009 compared with three years formerly , the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development said Tuesday. Japan moved up to eighth place in literacy part the 65 nations and regions involved, compared with 15th place part 57 nations and regions in 2006, and rose to fifth from sixth in applied scientific skills and to ninth from 10th in applied mathematical skills, the OECD said in its triennial statement.

  • OECD Program for International Student Assessment.

    CHINA, 2010/12/08

  • Education linked to labour skills and competitiveness

    THAILAND, 2010/11/30 Only better education will improve Thailand's industrial competitiveness and bring sustainable economic increase, says the president of the Thailand Development Research Institute. "However, access to college education is very limited for lower gain families," said Nipon Paopongsakorn in an interview. Nipon was referring to the study "Schooling Access Inequality and Educational Wage Trends in Thailand, 1986 -2009" by Dilaka Lathapipat, which will be presented at TDRI's annual forum on Monday and Tuesday.

  • History of Japanese Education

    JAPAN, 2010/01/06 The history of education in Japan dates back at least to the sixth century, at the same time as Chinese learning was introduced at the Yamato court. Foreign civilizations have often provided new ideas for the development of Japan's own culture.  
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