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Calls mount for education reforms

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Employers and unions in Germany demanded higher education funding and targeted support after poor PISA results, while officials and commentators in Finland and Spain urged teacher-selection and system reforms.

Helsingin Sanomat
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Funding: Employers and Unions After Pisa Shock – Invest Consistently in Education

Employers and unions are calling for higher education spending in light of the poor PISA results. In particular, children with difficult starting conditions should receive targeted support.

Funding: Employers and Unions After Pisa Shock – Invest Consistently in Education
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Education: These Measures Demanded by Employers and Unions After the Pisa Shock

The social partners want an education system with clear goals, defined responsibilities, and qualified professionals. The main demands at a glance.

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elDiario.es
A Change More Than Necessary

Each week we send you the latest from classrooms and surroundings in our Education bulletin. Last week a subscriber kindly wrote to reproach us that in our Pisa analysis we had not addressed what he considers one of the biggest problems in education, the selection of teachers. We were on it, Joaquín; you got ahead of us in your email, but here is what you asked for. The issue, complex, does not come from nowhere. We had been waiting to discuss this since, in the summer, the Government announced that it would form a panel to negotiate the change with the unions. We told you a week ago that this is one of the educational reforms that the Ministry of Education has somehow imposed for this last term of the legislature. The bulk of the teacher recruitment system has not been touched in 30 years and there is considerable unanimity in the sector that change is necessary. There are many problems posed by the current method (as you know, first a ...

A Change More Than Necessary
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