way, to more than 40% in Australia, Israel, Japan and the United States, and to over 70% in Chile, Korea and the United Kingdom.
The increasing costs of entry to higher education for many families may impede countries’ own goals of increasing educational attainment in their populations, warns the OECD.
Education at a Glance provides comparable national statistics about education for the 34 OECD member countries, as well as Argentina, Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Russia, Saudi Arabia and South Africa.
This year’s report includes indicators on public and private spending on education, tuition fees, adult participation in education, class sizes, teacher salaries and decision-making powers of schools, and analysis of national exam systems and the criteria for attending tertiary education.
For comment only journalists are invited to contact Andreas Schleicher (tel. + 33 1 45 24 93 66) in the OECD’s Education Directorate. To get a copy of the report please send an email to firstname.lastname@example.org. The report is available to journalists on the OECD’s password-protected site.
Further information on Education at a Glance 2012, including country notes, key data and a new visualization tool to compare countries’ performance, is available at www.oecd.org/edu/eag2012.
A mobile-friendly version of the report, compatible with smartphones and tablets, is available at http://oe.cd/EAG2012
Country briefings are available for Australia, Brazil, Canada, European Union, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Portugal, Russian Federation, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom and the United States.
The OECD and visualizing.org have launched a data visualization competition around Education at a Glance 2012. The focus is on the economic costs and returns on education. Find out how to enter at http://visualizing.org/contests/oecd-education-challenge.