Attempting to answer the what-is-worth-knowing questions, the conference will explore major themes concerning the current situation in education, teaching and learning. It will focus on globally relevant challenges such as multicultural education, education for citizenship, social inequality and schooling, gender and socialisation, new technologies and new literacies. It will examine the ways of overcoming the challenges as well as provide perspectives and dialogue on education systems around the world focussing on the major factors of academic achievement.