Trends shaping swedish education, Henno Theisens, OECD, på DIUs seminarium Framtidens lärande på svenska ambassaden i London, januari 2011

1. Trends Shaping Swedish Education Henno Theisens, OECD

4. Change in reading performance between 2000 and 2009

5. Pisa ranking for reading performance 564 Shanghai-China 538 Korea 538 Hong Kong-China 535 Finland 524 Canada 522 Singapore 520 Japan 518 New Zealand 513 Australia 506 Netherlands 505 Norway 504 Belgium 502 Poland 501 Iceland 500 United States 499 Sweden 498 Switzerland 497 Estonia 497 Hungary 497 Ireland 496 Chinese Taipei 496 Denmark 496 Germany 495 Liechtenstein 492 France 492 Portugal 492 United Kingdom 489 Italy 488 Macao-China 487 Greece 484 Spain 484 Slovenia

6. How proficient are students in reading?

7. Variability in student performance between and within schools

8. Immigrants and reading performance

11. Growing international trade

12. China and India catching up

13. The widening global gap

14. Increasing migration rates

15. Income inequality tends to grow

16. More single-parent families

17. Consumption of ADHD medication steeply rising

18. Expanding use of mobile broadband (3G subscribers)

19. Rapid growth of wikipedia

20. Increasing numbers of people working in R&D

21. A changing demand for skills (Levy and Murnane; Economy-wide measures of routine and non-routine task input (US))