World Education Indicators 2002 Financing Education Investments And Returns

This volume is the third in a series of publications that seeks to analyse the education indicators developed through the OECD/UNESCO World Education Indicators (WEI) programme. The volume examines both the investments and returns to education and human capital.

As individuals and nations increasingly recognize that high levels of knowledge and skills are essential to success, spending on education becomes more an investment into a collective future, rather than an individual consumption. Investment in human capital has thus moved to the centre of strategies to promote economic prosperity, better skilled labour forces, social cohesion and other positive individual and social benefits. However, public and private resources remain limited. The challenge of expanding educational opportunities while maintaining their quality and equitable distribution is linked to education finance. This report brings together crucial evidence on the role of human capital and education in fostering economic well-being. It also considers the benefits of public and private stakeholders in education. A national statistical profile that sets out selected contextual and finance indicators together with a comprehensive statistical annex covering both WEI and OECD countries completes the analysis. The countries participating in the World Education Indicators Programme (WEI) are: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, China, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Jamaica, Jordan, Malaysia, Paraguay, Peru, the Philippines the Russian Federation, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Tunisia, Uruguay andZimbabwe.

This volume sheds light on the comparative performance of education systems, with an analysis that extends to the financial and human resources invested in education, how education and learning systems operate and evolve, and to the returns to educational investment.

This volume sheds light on the comparative performance of education systems, with an analysis that extends to the financial and human resources invested in education, how education and learning systems operate and evolve, and the returns to educational investment.

The 2002 edition of Education at a Glance -- OECD Indicators provides information on the output of educational institutions and the impact of learning, the policy levers that shape educational outcomes and how education systems operate and evolve, and the human and financial resources invested.

This 2001 edition of Education at a Glance - OECD Indicators provides information on the human and financial resources invested in education, on how education and learning systems operate and evolve, and on the returns to educational investments.

International education indicators provide the opportunity to compare America's performance with that of other countries, to identify similarities and differences between our systems and others, and to suggest new approaches to the challenge of providing a world class education. Comparisons are among Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the U.K. and the U.S. Students in the U.S. perform well in comparison with their peers in other countries in reading and less well in geography and science; their weakest area is math. Public financial investment in education in the U.S. is among the highest.

Despite a low enrollment rate in higher education of 3 percent on average, in comparison with 8 percent in countries with comparable levels of development, Francophone African countries are currently facing an immense challenge in terms of numbers. The increased social demand associated with the progress made in universal primary enrollment and the increase in secondary enrollment could cause the student population to grow from 800,000 in 2004 to approximately 2 million in 2015, and to double the coverage. This increase exacerbates the financial problems of higher education institutions and mi.