This paper identifies OECD's shifting agendas and approaches to education since inception
and distinguishes three time periods. Each of these periods reflects shifting geopolitical and …

Through their collaborative practices of quantification and standardisation in large-scale
comparative literacy and numeracy surveys, international organisations (IOs) are both …

We argue that the legitimacy of international organisations (IOs) as self-proclaimed
representatives of humankind, which was unfounded from the outset, is waning. To …

Drawing on archival sources, interviews, and research literature, this article offers new
insights into the making, structure and long-term effects of the International Educational …

The expansion of university systems across the planet over the last fifty years has led to the
emergence of a new policy assemblage–'global higher education'that depends on the …

This article suggests that it is in the vicissitudes of the OECD's internal developments that we
can better understand how the OECD developed into a global policy actor and reference in …

Using Australia as a case, it is the purpose of this article to historically investigate the
implications of the OECD's economistic approach to education in terms of accountability in …

Reflecting on his long-time service in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and
Development (OECD), the Norwegian social economist Kjell Eide (1925–2011) 1 described …

The OECD has become a major driver of domestic education reforms, especially since the
establishment of PISA. However, we know very little about the contextualisation of PISA …

ABSTRACT Standardised International Large-Scale Assessments (ILSAs) have gained
prominence in global and national educational discussions. ILSAs claim to offer valuable …