The Education Policy Outlook is a collaborative effort between OECD countries and economies and the OECD Secretariat, invited institutions, as well as all of the actors working within participating education systems to help students achieve their potential.
It was prepared by the Education Policy Outlook team (Diana Toledo Figueroa [Project Leader], Daniel Salinas [on stage during the initial drafting of this report], Christa Rawkins, Marie Ullmann and Jonathan Wright), under the responsibility of Paulo Santiago, Head of the Policy Advice and Implementation Division, and Andreas Schleicher, Special Advisor on Education Policy to the OECD Secretary-General, and Director for Education and Skills. Rex Kaplan, Shiana Crosby and Niklas Olausson contributed analytically as part of the Outlook team during different stages of this report. Cassandra Davis, Rachel Linden, Henri Pearson, Sophie Limoges, Alison Burke, Amar Toor and Eric Magnusson provided communications assistance, and Julie Harris edited the report.
Sincere thanks are due to the many contributors who helped shape the objectives of the work of the OECD Education Policy Outlook during 2017-18, and who participated in the final validation process for this report during the first half of 2019. Members of the OECD Education Policy Committee and the national co-ordinators provided guidance and comments throughout the process (see Annex D for the full list of contributors).
This report also benefited from invited contributions by the Implementing Education Policies team (Beatriz Pont, Romane Viennet, Pierre Gouëdard and Marco Kools), who prepared Chapter 6 of this report, as well as by the Trade Union Advisory Committee to the OECD (John Bangs and Martin Henry), who prepared Chapter 7 of this report. This report also complements the analysis of the preceding Education Policy Outlook 2018: Putting Student Learning at the Centre.
Mónika Képe-Holmberg, Livia Ruszthy, Brigitte Devos, Alexandra Tamasan, Klaus Körner, Ulrike Pisiotis, Marina Grskovic, Sylwia Sitka and Antonio García Gómez of the European Commission also provided valuable input to Chapter 8. The OECD Secretariat is also grateful to the European Commission for the funding and analytical collaboration it provided for the preparation of 11 Education Policy Outlook Country Profiles from 2015 to 2017 and the update 11 Education Policy Outlook Country Profiles from 2017 to 2020.