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Lost instruction days (upper secondary)
Source: OECD/UIS/UNESCO/UNICEF/WB Special Survey on Covid. March 2021
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Lost instruction days (upper secondary)
Source: OECD/UIS/UNESCO/UNICEF/WB Special Survey on Covid. March 2021
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Size of bubbles represents number of COVID-19 cases per million inhabitants in 2020
Lost instruction days and quality of learning outcomes
Source: OECD/UIS/UNESCO/UNICEF/WB Special Survey on Covid. March 2021
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Czech Republic
Denmark
Finland
France
Germany
Ireland
Italy
Netherlands Norway
Poland
Slovak Republic
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Switzerland
United Kingdom
Chile
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Lat…
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Costa Rica
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Korea
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TurkeyR² = 0.5411
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PISA 2018 performance in reading
(remains 0.31 after accounting for GDP/capita)
Students from lower socio-economic
backgrounds are at a higher risk of
disengaging from remote learning
In some countries, more than 5% of students repeat a grade
Share of repeaters in lower and upper secondary education (2019)
Figure B1.2.
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High tuition fees can deter students from pursuing a
tertiary education
Average, minimum and maximum tuition fees charged by public institutions and average amount of tuition fee waivers for national
students enrolled in bachelor's programmes (academic year 2019/20)
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Average (or most common) tuition fee Minimum tuition fee
Maximum tuition fee Average (or most common) tuition fee waiver
…students from low and lower-middle income countries represent
less than a third of international students in the OECD region Figure B6.1.
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% Low Lower-middle Upper-middle High Unallocated by income
Distribution of incoming international students by origin countries’ income level (2019)
Although international mobility can be high in some countries... Figure B6.2.
Incoming student mobility in tertiary education, by level of study (2019)
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% All tertiary Bachelor's or equivalent Master's or equivalent Doctoral or equivalent
Across the OECD, almost one in five young adults
has not attained upper secondary education
Share of 25-34 year-olds with below upper secondary attainment (2020)
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Youth with lower educational attainment are more
likely to have lower employment prospects…
Employment rate of 25-34 year-old adults by educational attainment (2020)
Table A3.2.
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…and are more likely to earn below half the median
Percentage of adults with below upper secondary attainment earning at or below half the median (2019)
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Adults with tertiary education can expect to live 5 years
more than those with below upper secondary education
Difference in life expectancy at age 30 between those with tertiary attainment and those with below upper secondary attainment, by gender (2017)
Figure A6.1.
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Life expectancey of tertiary-educated adults is higher than for adults with belowupper secondary education
Public-to-private transfers in pre-primary education
Distribution of public and private expenditure on educational institutions in pre-primary education (2018)
Figure B2.3.
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In many countries, teacher salaries are low…
Lower secondary teachers' actual salaries relative to earnings for tertiary-educated workers (2020)
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…and the earnings progression is flat
Lower secondary teachers’ average actual salaries compared to the statutory starting and top of the scale salaries (2020)
Annual salaries of teachers in public institutions, in equivalent USD converted using PPPs
Figure D3.2.
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Contribution of teachers' salary Contribution of instruction time
Contribution of teaching time Contribution of theoretical class size
Difference of salary cost of teachers per student from OECD average
Various factors contribute to the total salary cost of
teachers per studentContribution of various factors to salary cost of teachers per student in public institutions, primary education (2019)
Figure C7.2.
High salary cost Moderately high salary cost Moderately low salary cost Low salary cost
USD
Equity criteria in funding formulas help ensure resources
are directed to where they are the most needed
Share of total funding allocated by central and state governments to primary and lower secondary educational institutions by equity criteria (2019)
Figure D6.4.
0 5 10 15 20 25
The number or proportion of low-income students
The number or proportion of students with disabilities
The number or proportion of students with an immigrant background
Schools (or most local level of governance) serving poor or disadvantagedcommunities
Schools (or most local level of governance) that are in remote or high costlocations/regions
Schools (or most local level of governance) with special subject offerings (i.e.minority language)
The number or proportion of low-income people in thestate/region/province/municipality
The number or proportion of people with an immigrant background in thestate/region/province/municipality
States/regions/provinces/municipalities in remote and/or rural locations
The number or proportion of people who belong to minority communities in thestate/region/province/municipality
The number or proportion of people who belong to disadvantaged communities inthe state/region/province/municipality
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