This book provides an internationally comparable set of indicators on educational provision for students with disabilities, learning difficulties, and disadvantages (DDD). It highlights the number of students involved, where they are educated—special schools, special classes, or regular classes— and in what phases of education: preprimary, primary, lower secondary, or upper secondary education. It also includes information on student-teacher ratios and discusses policy implications concerning special education. This new edition also presents, for the first time, trends in the data from 1999 to 2003 for students with DDD.  A consistent finding in this volume is the preponderance of the number of boys over girls among DDD students in a wide range of analyses. Whether done by location, cross-national or national category, age of student, or phase of education, there is a higher percentage of males, typically a 60/40 split, across most OECD countries.

Students With Disabilities, Learning Difficulties And Disadvantages: Statistics And Indicators

Education & Teaching

Organization For Economic Cooperation & Development

Schools & Teaching

Organization for Economic

<p>In recent years, human rights and development have been converging. Growing recognition that there are crucial links between rights violations, poverty, exclusion, environmental degradation, vulnerability and conflict has led many OECD member countries and multilateral donors to look at human rights more thoroughly as a means for improving the quality of development co-operation. Some have adopted human rights-based approaches to development, while others have preferred to integrate human rights explicitly or implicitly into various dimensions of their development work, especially into their governance agendas. This book, which is the most comprehensive and up-to-date of its kind, seeks to enhance understanding and consensus on why and how we need to work more strategically and coherently on the integration of human rights and development. It reviews the approaches of different donor agencies and their rationales for working on human rights, and identifies the current practice in this field. It illustrates how aid agencies are working on human rights issues at the programming level, and it draws together lessons that form the core of the current evidence around the added value of human rights for development. Lastly, it addresses both new opportunities and conceptual and practical challenges to human rights within the evolving development partnerships between donors and partner countries, as well as in relation to the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness as a new reference point of the international aid system. By giving numerous examples of practical approaches, this publication shows that there are various ways for donor agencies to take human rights more systematically into account - in accordance with their respective mandates, modes of engagement and comparative advantage</p>

Development Dimension Integrating Human Rights Into Development: Donor Approaches, Experiences and Challenges

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

Hungary: Oecd Economic Surveys: Oecd Economic Surveys 1994-95

Reference

This book describes the rapid growth in the supply and demand for information technology goods and services and their role in the expanding Internet economy, and looks at emerging uses of information technology. It makes use of the new official national sources of data which are becoming available as statistical mapping of the information economy improves. Topics addressed include the importance of information and communications technologies (ICT) in national economies, the development of information technology markets, links between the use of information technologies (notably in PCs) and developments in network infrastructure, the issues of trust and security surrounding electronic payments, the development of global navigation systems, and flat panel display technologies.

OECD Information Technology Outlook 2000: ICTs, E-Commerce and the Information Economy

Computers & Technology

Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development

Internet & Social Media

<p>Accessible, user-friendly transport means that disabled and older people can use the transport system without hindrance. Whilst much progress has been made in all modes of transport to make travel easier and more pleasant for all passengers, it is the attitude and skill of the driver, captain, pilot, etc. that can make the difference between a pleasant and safe journey for a disabled or older person and one that is fraught with worry, frustration or confusion. These guidelines are designed be a brief good practice guide for staff employed in the passenger transport industry, to encourage understanding of the specific problems experienced by disabled and older passengers when using the transport system, and to provide guidance on how best to respond to their needs. The CD-ROM contains the text of the publication (held as pdfs) in both English and French versions. These guidelines complement the earlier joint report "Improving access to public transport" (2004, ISBN 928211323X).</p>

Improving Access to Public Transport

Business & Money

Industries

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