Thematic Workshop 2: Effective Policies for Building Human Capital

Bucharest, 6-7 March 2009Facilitator: OECD

EVIDENCE BASED POLICY

Policy-makers Researchers

Practitioners

School brd/parents Media Leaders

Questions:

Strengths/weaknesses of each of these links?

How best to encourage stronger cooperation?

• Evidence matters• No imminent evidence revolution, but a

process• Strong research = good policies?

– Making the links among players work– Capacity building– Quality and misuse– Making policy research attractive

EVIDENCE BASED POLICY - Summary

• Policies and trends• Investment in the capacity of education

systems to handle change– Continue reform interventions for raising

quality and skills– Teacher training – The key to influencing the change

responsiveness of education systems lies in education itself

TRENDS - Summary