By Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development OECD
Highlights from schooling at a look 2008 is an creation to OECDs number of across the world related information on schooling and studying. It contains information on enrollment and attainment, affects on jobs and earning, academic spending, classification measurement and guide time, and function of schooling structures. each one indicator is gifted on a two-page unfold. The left-hand web page explains the importance of the indicator, discusses the most findings, examines key developments and offers readers with a roadmap for locating out extra within the OECD schooling databases and in different OECD schooling guides. The right-hand web page includes basically offered charts and tables, observed by means of dynamic links (StatLinks) that direct readers to the corresponding facts in Excel layout. desk of content material : Reader's consultant 1. schooling degrees and scholar Numbers -To what point have adults studied? -What topics did adults examine in tertiary schooling? -Who participates in schooling? -How many secondary scholars cross directly to tertiary schooling? -How many scholars sign up for vocational programmes? -How many kids graduate from tertiary schooling? -How many scholars drop out of tertiary schooling? -How do women and men range in schooling degrees? -How profitable are scholars in relocating from schooling to paintings? -How a lot education are adults doing? -How many scholars examine overseas? -Where do scholars visit examine? -Is there a blue-collar barrier in better schooling? 2. the commercial merits of schooling -How even more do tertiary graduates earn? -How does educaiton impact employment premiums? -What are the incentives for individuals to speculate in schooling? -What are the incentives for society to speculate in schooling? three. purchasing schooling -How a lot is spent in step with scholar? -Has spending in keeping with pupil elevated? -What proportion of nationwide wealth is spent on schooling? -What is the position of personal spending? -How a lot do tertiary scholars pay? -What are schooling money spent on? -How successfully are assets utilized in schooling? four. the college setting -How lengthy do studnets spend within the lecture room? -How many scholars are in every one lecture room? -How a lot are lecturers paid? -How a lot time do lecturers spend instructing? -Who are the academics? distinctive part: Introducing PISA -What is PISA -What can scholars do in technology? -What can scholars do in examining? -What can scholars do in arithmetic? -How do boys and girls do in technology? -How does scholar functionality range among and inside of faculties? -How good do immigrant scholars do?
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Over time, spending on educational institutions does indeed tend to rise, in large part because teachers’ salaries rise in line with general earnings. However, if rising unit costs are not accompanied by increasing outcomes, it raises the spectre of falling productivity levels. Findings Expenditure on educational institutions per student at the primary, secondary and post-secondary nontertiary levels increased in every country, on average, by 35% between 1995 and 2005 during a period of relatively stable student numbers.
HIGHLIGHTS FROM EDUCATION AT A GLANCE 2008 – ISBN 978-92-64-04061-8 – © OECD 2009 1. EDUCATION LEVELS AND STUDENT NUMBERS How much training are adults doing? 14. Job training for 55-64 year-olds compared with 25-34 year-olds, 2003 This figure shows the hours spent in job training by older workers as a percentage of the hours spent by younger workers, broken down by education levels. More highly educated workers do more training, but, with the exception of Sweden, the older age group always does less training than the younger group.
Significance This indicator examines the occupational status (white collar or blue collar) and the educational status of tertiary students’ fathers in some European countries. Opening access to higher education is not only a matter of equity but also a way to broaden the pool of candidates for high-skilled jobs and to increase countries’ overall competitiveness. In many countries, however, far fewer young people from blue-collar backgrounds study in higher education. Findings hood of his children attending tertiary education.
