Mainland China participated in 2009 in the PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment) tests for the first time since PISA started to be administered internationally by the OECD in 2000. China was represented by students from Shanghai. Shanghai took first place in all three major categories: reading, science, and mathematics. The PISA tests are given every 3 years to a large sample of...

Over the last decade, it has been widely argued that technology-enhanced learning could respond to the needs of the new knowledge society and transform the way we learn. However, despite isolated achievements, technology-enhanced learning has not really succeeded yet in revolutionizing our education and learning processes. In fact, most current initiatives do not focus on the social aspect of l...

Ahlswede and Khachatrian's diametric theorem is a weighted version of their complete intersection theorem, which is itself a well known extension of the t-intersecting Erd˝ os-Ko-Rado theorem. The complete intersection theorem says that the maximum size of a family of subsets of [n] = {1,. .. , n}, every pair of which intersects in at least t elements, is the size of certain trivially intersect...

The theoretical framework of the Arab Knowledge Report for the year 2010/2011 is determined through addressing the central concept, which the report aims to highlight and discuss thoroughly. This central concept is represented in ‘preparing the young Arab generations for the knowledge society’ as an objective and a means to achieve the desired Arab renaissance. This chapter addresses the concep...

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Although a lot of information is available worldwide, getting the right piece of information is challenging. In addition, integrating information from different sources is still very complicated. To make the different information systems to interoperate, it is necessary to provide common knowledge structures. Ontologies have been developed for making the semantics of a domain explicit. However,...

In this concluding chapter we shall build on the findings reached in the preceding chapters in monitoring and analysing the knowledge reality, enabling environments and the readiness of the youth to meet knowledge requirements in the Arab region, as well as the findings reached by the four case studies in the previous chapter concerning skills. This chapter proposes pathways, mechanisms, and a ...

Let S(n) be the symmetric group on n points. A subset S of S(n) is intersecting if for any pair of permutations π, σ in S there is a point i ∈ {1, . . . , n} such that π(i) = σ(i). Deza and Frankl [9] proved that if S ⊆ S(n) is intersecting then |S| ≤ (n− 1)!. Further, Cameron and Ku [4] show that the only sets that meet this bound are the cosets of a stabilizer of a point. In this paper we giv...

1. Two vector bundles E and F over the finite connected CW complex X are /-equivalent, if their sphere-bundles S(E) and S(F) are of the same fiber-homotopy type. If they become /-equivalent after a suitable number of trivial bundles is added to both of them they are stably /-equivalent. This note concerns itself with a new stable /-invariant 6(E), which was suggested by the recent work of Atiya...

In this article, the authors investigate the diverse dimensions of a knowledge society. First, the relevant literature on post industrial societies is reviewed to identify the key constituents of successful growth and development. The authors then propose a 10-dimension framework within political, economic, social and technological parameters that describe the state of evolution of a given know...