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Education at a Glance 2016

OECD, Sept 15, 2016

The OECD has released its latest report and there's enough in its 510 pages to support almost any point of view (US News & World Report, for example, uses it to plug pre-school math education). There's a (good) video here and a (low quality) slide show of key charts. Some of the key points (quoted from the report):

  • To ease the strain on already tight public budgets, more countries are shifting the cost of tertiary education from the government to individual households.
  • Between 2005 and 2014, the enrolment rate of 20-24year-olds in tertiary education increased from 29% to 33%,
    on average across OECD countries.
  • Women are still less likely to enter and graduate from more advanced levels of tertiary education, such as doctoral or equivalent programmes.
  • In most countries participation in pre-primary programmes among immigrant students is considerably lower than it is among students without an immigrant background.
  • Between 2008 and 2013, real expenditure per student increased by 8% in primary to post-secondary non-tertiary education and by 6% in tertiary education. However, on average across OECD countries, (teacher) salaries were either frozen or cut between2009 and 2013.

You can read the report in its entirety online.

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