Following the successful completion of pilot testing for the Literacy Assessment and Monitoring Programme (LAMP), the UIS published a report to highlight developments in this standard which will ultimately transform our understanding of a population’s literacy skills.
Global Education Digest 2008 - by This edition provides an expanded set of data for the school year ending in 2006 in addition to 2007 data for a number of countries. >>More
2009 Education for All Global Monitoring Report - by The failure of governments across the world to tackle deep and persistent inequalities in education is consigning millions of children to lives of poverty and diminished opportunity, according to this report published by UNESCO. >>More
2008 Millennium Development Goals Report - by This global assessment is based on work undertaken by several international organizations, including the UIS, which is responsible for monitoring MDG education targets. >>More
A View Inside Primary Schools - by This UIS study highlights the strong effect of social inequality on primary education systems in many countries and the challenge to provide all children with equal learning opportunities. >>More
Education for All by 2015: Will we make it? - by The number of children starting primary school has increased sharply since 2000, there are more girls in school than ever before and spending on education and aid has risen. That’s the good news, according to the Education for All Global Monitoring Report, released by UNESCO. >>More
Global Education Digest 2007 - by The education budget of a single country like France, Germany, Italy or the United Kingdom outweighs education spending across the entire sub-Saharan African region, according to the Global Education Digest 2007. >>More
A global snapshot of technical and vocational education - by There is a common perception among policymakers that both the supply and demand for technical and vocational education (TVET) continue to rise and diversify. This report presents a panorama of available data and highlights leads for future investigation. >>More
Strong foundations: early childhood care and education - by Latin America and the Caribbean leads the developing world in the provision of pre-school education, according to the annual Education for All Global Monitoring Report, published by UNESCO. However, the report finds that this area remains the forgotten link in the education chain in many regions, and that half the world’s countries have no early childhood care and education policy for children under age three. >>More
Education Counts – Benchmarking Progress in 19 WEI Countries - by Malaysia and Tunisia devote substantially greater shares of their national wealth to education than almost every country in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), according to this report by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics. >>More
Teachers and Educational Quality: Monitoring Global Needs for 2015 - by Sub-Saharan Africa will need another 1.6 million teachers in classrooms by 2015 to provide every child with a primary education, according to this report by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS). Chronic shortages are also expected in the Arab States, which will need to expand their teaching force by 26% in less than a decade to achieve the same goal. >>More
Global Education Digest 2006: Comparing Education Statistics Across the World - by Tertiary students from sub-Saharan Africa are the most mobile in the world, with one out of every 16 – or 5.6 % - studying abroad, according to the Global Education Digest 2006, produced by the UIS. At the other end of the scale, only one out of every 250 North American students (0.4%) studies overseas, making this group the least mobile. >>More
Children Out of School: Measuring Exclusion from Primary Education - by One hundred and fifteen million primary school-age children are out of school according to a joint UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS)/UNICEF global estimate. This number equals 18% - or almost one in five - of the children worldwide in this age group. And many of the children who are in school may never complete their primary education or finish it without attaining even basic literacy skills. >>More
International Flows of Selected Cultural Goods and Services, 1994-2003 - by UIS Three countries - the United Kingdom, United States and China - produced 40 percent of the world’s cultural trade products in 2002, while Latin America and Africa together accounted for less than four percent according to a new report published by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics. >>More
Measuring Linguistic Diversity on the Internet - by UIS Hundreds of local languages may be sidelined in the drive to bridge the digital divide because of technological oversight and political inertia, according to a new UNESCO publication. Entitled “Measuring Linguistic Diversity on the Internet”, the publication was produced by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) in preparation for the World Summit on the Information Society (16-18 November 2005) in Tunisia. >>More
Education Trends in Perspective - Analysis of the World Education Indicators - by UNESCO Institute for Statistics, OECD More students than ever are seeking higher education in middle-income countries, causing tertiary enrolment to skyrocket by 77 per cent over the past decade, compared to 43 per cent in rich countries, according to a new study by UNESCO and the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). >>More
Global Education Digest 2005 - Comparing Education Statistics Across the World - by UIS The Global Education Digest 2005 presents a wide range of comparable education indicators. They can be used to assess progress towards the Education for All and Millennium Development Goals. These cross-national indicators can also be used to benchmark the performance of one’s own educational system to those in other countries. >>More
Global Education Digest 2004 - Comparing Education Statistics Across the World - by UIS The Global Education Digest 2004: Comparing Education Statistics Across the World is the second in an annual series of UIS global statistical reports that provides the latest key education indicators from early childhood to higher education. It is a fundamental reference work for a general readership interested in comparing education systems and trends across nations. This report also provides an additional analysis of school life expectancy, progress towards education goals and a survey of national compulsory education standards. >>More
Education Statistics 2004 - Regional Report on South and East Asia - by UIS More children are attending school than ever before in the countries of South and East Asia, but vast numbers of them drop out before the end of the primary cycle and the region still accounts for the world’s largest share of out-of-school children, according to a new report published by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics. >>More
Measuring and Monitoring the Information and Knowledge Societies: a Statistical Challenge - by UIS This report was written as one of UNESCO's inputs to the first phase of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in 2003. Its focus is on measurement issues with regard to Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and gives an overview of the data that exists as well as where the gaps lie. Issues relating to data quality are also addressed. >>More
Global Education Digest 2003 - Comparing Education Statistics Across the World - by UIS This is the first in an annual series of UIS global statistical reports that provides the latest key education indicators from early childhood to higher education. It is a fundamental reference work for a general readership interested in comparing education systems and trends across nations. The first report provides an additional analysis of measures of educational participation, progression and completion. >>More
Literacy Skills for the World of Tomorrow - Further Results from PISA 2000 - by OECD , UNESCO This OECD/UNESCO joint report studies the performance of 15-year-old students in reading, mathematical and scientific literacy in 43 countries that participated in the OECD-led Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). It provides insight into the factors that influence the development of literacy skills at home and at school, and how these factors interact. >>More
Financing Education - Investments and Returns - by UIS / OECD Financing Education – Investments and Returns is the third in a series of reports that analyse education indicators developed through the World Education Indicators Programme (WEI). This report looks at the impact of human capital on economic growth and examines education spending and investment strategies from both public and private perspectives. >>More
Teachers for Tomorrow's Schools, Analysis of the World Education Indicators - 2001 Edition (OECD-UNESCO-UIS) - by UIS / OECD Teachers for Tomorrow’s Schools is the second in a series of reports that analyse education indicators developed as part of the World Education Indicators Programme (WEI). This report looks at resources for education and how resources are invested and examines the policy choices and trade-offs that countries make when balancing expanded access to education with the need to attract and retain good teachers. >>More
Facts and Figures 2000 - by Facts and Figures 2000 provides a snapshot of recent statistics in UNESCO's domains in a simple, ready-to-use format. >>More
Are conditional cash transfers missing their target? - by Fernando Reimers, Carol DeShano da Silva and Ernesto Trevino A new ‘silver bullet’ races across the desks of national policymakers and officials in development agencies – the conditional cash transfer (CCT). This policy tool provides cash transfers to poor households provided that their children regularly attend school. But the transfers may be missing the educational target, according to this UIS publication. >>More
Learning Divides: Ten Policy Questions about the Performance and Equity of Schools and Schooling Systems - by J. Douglas Willms Comparative studies of student achievement have sparked global debates about how best to design effective policies that raise the quality of learning while reducing disparities among students. This publication demonstrates a useful analytical tool, called the gradient, which represents the relationship between student learning outcomes and socioeconomic status. >>More
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