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5.2.11 The OECD role in Asian higher education
In the OECD there exist many specialized bodies that are working for the development of
education also at all levels in the OECD area and help to achieve organizational objectives. The
area of action of these bodies encompasses a wide variety of domains that ranges from childhood
education to higher education; policy framing to student assessments and data collection to
information dissemination. Among the twenty one Asian countries that have uses the OECD
platform, only eleven of them, including member countries, have presence in some of these
bodies working for education. All four OECD member economies from Asia have the highest
presence in the bodies specialized for education: Japan is an actor in 12 bodies, Korea in eleven,
Israel in eight and Turkey can be seen in seven such bodies. (See the table below)
Asian countries’ presence in the OECD bodies
Countries
Higher
education
sector
Education
all sectors
All
sectors
Status
1 Japan 2 12 281 Member
2 Korea 1 11 221 Member
3 Turkey 1 7 205 Member
4 Israel 1 8 152 Member
5 India 0 0 41 E.E. country*
6 Indonesia 0 0 7 E.E. country
7 China 0 1 27 E.E. country
8 Bahrain 1 1 1 Non-Member
9 Bangladesh 0 0 1 Non-Member
10 Hong Kong 1 1 6 Non-Member
11 Iran 0 0 1 Non-Member
12 Kyrgyzstan 0 0 3 Non-Member
13 Malaysia 0 0 5 Non-Member
14 Philippines 0 0 1 Non-Member
15 Qatar 0 1 1 Non-Member
16 Saudi Arabia 2 2 2 Non-Member
17 Singapore 0 0 12 Non-Member
18 Sri Lanka 0 0 1 Non-Member
19 Taiwan 1 1 6 Non-Member
20 Thailand 1 1 6 Non-Member
21 Viet Nam 0 0 3 Non-Member
Table is build by author. Data source OECD 2011
*E.E.Country Enhanced Engagement Country
Table 17 Asian countries’ presence in the OECD bodies