Canada gets an 'A' for higher education, but public funding needs work: OECD

By Fiona Buchanan. Canada continues to top the list of most educated countries in the world but it is falling short when it comes to public funding for post-secondary institutions, according to a report from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s (OECD) annual report, “Education at a Glance 2013,” ranks Canadians as the most educated of 34 OECD countries, with 51 per cent of the population having completed university-, college- or polytechnic-level education. But Canada trails the non-OECD Russian Federation, which reported a 53 per cent rate of tertiary education in 2012. 
Canadians with university-level education are also less likely to be unemployed, the report found. Both men and women with bachelor’s degrees or higher experience had a five per cent rate of unemployment, compared with nearly seven per cent for high school and college graduates in 2011. Canadians without a diploma experienced unemployment rates of around 12 per cent. Read more...