The Education Policy Outlook is a collaborative effort between OECD governments and the OECD Secretariat. It was prepared by the Education Policy Outlook team (Diana Toledo Figueroa [Project Leader], Gillian Golden, Shiana Crosby, Manon Giovinazzo, Marie Ullmann and Jonathan Wright), under the responsibility of Paulo Santiago, Head of the Policy Advice and Implementation Division, and Andreas Schleicher, Director for Education and Skills. 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. 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). At different stages in the process, Célia Braga-Schich, Michaela Horvathova and Jonathan Williams provided input as part of the Outlook team. The Education Policy Outlook National Survey for Comparative Analysis 2016-17 and this report benefitted from comments and guidance from colleagues in the Directorate for Education and Skills (Etienne Albiser, Tracey Burns, Arno Engel, Marc Fuster Rabella, Pierre Gouëdard, Florian Köster, Gonçalo Lima, Rowena Phair, Marinus Rouw, Paulo Santiago, Cláudia Sarrico and Sophie Vayssettes). Mónika Képe-Holmberg, Ulrike Pisiotis, Livia Ruszthy and Alexandra Tamasan of the European Commission also provided valuable input. The OECD Secretariat is also grateful to the European Commission for the funding it provided for the preparation of 11 Education Policy Outlook Country Profiles from 2015 to 2017.
Cassandra Davis and Henri Pearson provided communications assistance, and Susan Copeland edited the report.