By Beckie Smith. A website designed to assist UK higher education institutions in encouraging more students to study abroad was launched this week by Universities Minister Greg Clark at Universities UK (UUK)’s national conference, where UUK leader Christopher Snowdon called on policymakers to implement more favourable immigration policy for international students. More...
14 septembre 2014
Educational mobility starts to slow in industrialised world, says OECD
Access to education continues to expand worldwide but the socio-economic divisions between tertiary-educated adults and the rest of society are growing. Governments must do more to ensure that everyone has the same opportunity to a good education early in life, according to a new OECD report.
Education at a Glance 2014 says that educational mobility has started to slow down in the industrialised world. The number of people with lower qualifications than their parents is 9% among 55-64 year-olds to 12% among 35-44 year-olds and 16% among 25-34 year-olds.
At the same time, among the younger age group of 25-34 year-olds, where the tertiary attainment rate had risen to 43%, the impact of parents’ educational background was just as strong: of adults with at least one tertiary-educated parent, 65% attained a tertiary qualification, while of the adults with low-educated parents only 23% did. These data suggest that the expansion in education has not translated into a more inclusive society. More...
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