The 13th OECD Rural Development Conference has concluded with the delivery of the Cavan-OECD Roadmap on Strengthening Rural Resilience against Global Challenges. The 2-day Conference was hosted by the Government of Ireland and convened around 500 delegates from 30 OECD countries, including Government ministers, senior policy makers and stakeholders in the rural sector.
Minister for Further and Higher Education, Innovation, Research and Science, Simon Harris, and Minister of State, Niall Collins have welcomed the OECD report, ‘Education at a Glance’ (EAG), which showed that the number of young people in Ireland attending third-level education is significantly above the OECD average. The study found that: Ireland ranked 4th out
Ireland this week hosted a two-day meeting of ministers from across the OECD to discuss responses to a significant rise in global poverty linked to COVID-19. The meeting, which ran over Wednesday and Thursday of this week, will be chaired by Minister of State for Overseas Development Colm Brophy TD and will bring together development […]