Briefing Note

OECD briefing note for Japan

Over the past generations, Japan has shown that it is possible to achieve strong educational progress: In the 1960s, Japan still ranked 14 th among OECD countries in the proportion of people with university-level or vocational tertiary qualifications, today it ranks 2 nd just after Canada. However, in Japan, the number of science graduates remains below the OECD average. There are 1596 people w...

OECD Briefing Note For the United Kingdom

In response to this need, the OECD devotes a major effort to the development and analysis of quantitative, internationally comparable indicators, which are published annually in Education at a Glance. These indicators enable educational policy makers and practitioners alike to see their education systems in the light of other countries’ performances and, together with OECD’s country policy revi...

Briefing note Age discrimination in health and social care

Briefing Note – One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) in Afghanistan

Furthermore, due to insufficient school buildings and teachers, which forces some schools to run up to three shifts per day, and to place over 50 children in some classes, each child generally receives only 2.5 hrs (5 x 30min periods) of school a day. Research widely concludes that amongst the most important variables in the quality of education are: the amount of time students are exposed to c...

Operators Briefing Note – Anaerobic Digestion Operators Guidance Note – Effective Digestion of Food Waste

2.0 What are the challenges? There are two groups of ‘biogas generating’ organisms available within an Anaerobic Digestion process: acetoclastic methanogens and hydrogenotrophic methanogens. Food waste has a high nitrogen content due to the high protein component. During anaerobic digestion this generates a high level of ammonia which is toxic to the acetoclastic methanogens. Whilst biogas prod...