The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) will announce the latest results of its Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) at the Forum for World Education (FWE) in Paris on December 3rd.

PISA is a triennial survey of 15-year-old students around the world that assesses the extent to which they have acquired key knowledge and skills essential for full participation in social and economic life. PISA assessments, which were first launched in 2000, include the core school subjects of reading, mathematics and science, and also innovative assessment areas, such as creative problem solving (2012), collaborative problem solving (2015), global competence (2018) and creative thinking (2021). Nearly 20 years since the first PISA test, results from the seventh cycle of 2018 PISA were drawn from some 600,000 students from 79 countries and economies, which focused on students’ reading proficiency.

After the formal launch of the latest PISA results, the 2019 Forum for World Education will convene a remarkable group of people at the OECD Conference Centre from December 3-4 to design new education models for the decades ahead. In many countries, inequity and social fragmentation pose risks of conflict and division, while around the corner, AI and biotech could either strengthen our societies or subvert them. How can education better link with economic growth? How can we better serve disadvantaged populations through educational diplomacy and entrepreneurship? What is the transformational model of education that can equip and inspire young people to come together, across boundaries, to shape new values, reach responsible decisions and resolve our pressing problems?

The invitation-only event will bring together global leaders in business such as Jack Ma, Founding Chairman of Alibaba; Dhanin Chearavanont, Senior Chairman of CP Group in Thailand; David Cruickshank, Chairman of UK Deloitte; former education ministers and policymakers such as Olli-Pekka Heinonen of Finland; Hekia Parata of New Zealand; Maria Helena Guimarães de Castro of Brazil; and world-renowned academics such as Dr. Eric Hanushek of Stanford University; Dr. Oon Seng Tan of Singapore; Dr. Christoph Metzger of the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland; Dr. A. Lin Goodwin, the Dean of the Faculty of Education at the University of Hong Kong; and Dr. Pam Grossman, Dean of the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania. Not only that, Princess Laurentien of The Netherlands, Ángel Gurría, Secretary-General of the OECD, and Andreas Schleicher, Director of the Directorate of Education and Skills will be opening up the forum.