The OECD & Higher Education in a World Changed Utterly
By Kris Olds September 13, 2010 9:16 amThe Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is an important part of the ‘learning machinery’ that both sheds light on and guides higher education reform. While this international organization does not have jurisdictional authority over higher education regulations and practices within nation states, it does has a unique capacity to conduct research, generate debates, benchmark, provide advice, convene, and respond to the expressed needs of its member states.
A case in point is the annual Education at a Glance report that the OECD issues every September. And the Education at a Glance report is just that – a report – yet a report that many governments feel a need to both support (via data provision) yet respond to (and quickly!) when the report’s findings highlight potentially significant weaknesses in their higher