DEVELOPMENT GOALS

Relevance/responsiveness

• Educational attainment and competencies
• Economic growth and test scores on math

Equity/inclusion

• Exclusion in education
• Disaggregated data on exclusion

DESIRED OUTCOMES

Competencies

• Categorisation of competencies
• Conceptualising competencies
• Examples of countries’ definitions of key/core competencies

Life-long learners

• Perspective of life spheres
• Learning continuum
• Composite Learning Index and European lifelong learning indicators
• Recognition, validation and accreditation of outcomes
• Learning communities, learning cities and learning regions

CORE PROCESSES

Learning

• Influential theories of learning
• Key resolutions of 2011 policy forum on learning
• Distinction between education and learning leadership

Teaching

• Common characteristics of good teaching
• Different teaching methods
• Broad pedagogical freedom or prescriptive curriculum?

Assessment

• Purposes of assessment
• Articles on assessment

CORE RESOURCES

Curriculum

• Different meanings of curriculum
• What makes a quality curriculum?
• Defining the curriculum content

Learners

• Brain research on diverse learner needs across ages
• Holistic Early Childhood Development Index
• Returns of investment in the early years
• Views of learners

Teachers

• Teacher policies: Preparation, Recruitment and Retention of Quality
• Teachers/Educators

Learning environment

• The psychosocial environment

SUPPORTING MECHANISMS

Governance

• Concept of governance
•  Accountability
•  Learning leadership

Financing

• National Education accounts

System efficiency

• Resources and student achievement
• External efficiency of education