New policies should build on previous ones, agrees Andreas Schleicher, the OECD's head of education research.

ECONOMIST: Education reform

Andreas Schleicher, OECD Deputy Director for Education, emphasized the impact of combining education with skills development.

UNESCO: MEDIA SERVICES

Andreas Schleicher, the OECD's chief of education research, reckons that these countries may well become more competitive as a result.

ECONOMIST: Valuing education

Quotas tend to benefit the luckiest and best-prepared of the favoured group, not the most disadvantaged, says Andreas Schleicher, an education expert at the OECD.

ECONOMIST: Higher education in Brazil

Stronger mechanisms to ensure quality and more equitable student financing would also make a big difference, says Andreas Schleicher of the OECD, an organisation of mainly rich countries.

ECONOMIST: Universities in Latin America

According to Dr. Andreas Schleicher who was in charge of the test, you can not do well , if you lack critical thinking which is essential to creativity.

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Andreas Schleicher, the OECD's special adviser on education, says a long-term characteristic of the UK's education system has been social division - with a polarisation between the results of rich and poor pupils.

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