By OECD Publishing
This new biennial publication presents the most recent to be had info on 26 significant present traits in education, grouped in nine large topics (ageing, international demanding situations, the recent financial panorama, paintings and jobs, the educational society, ICT, citizenship and the kingdom, social connections and values, and sustainable affluence). for every pattern, there's a two-page unfold, containing a quick advent, figures with accompanying textual content via 3 key questions on the effect of the fad at the way forward for schooling. A dynamic hyperlink (StatLink) is supplied for every determine, which directs the person to an internet web page the place the corresponding information are available Excel?®.Table of content material :Introduction1. growing older OECD Societies-Fewer Children-Living Longer-Changing Age Structures-Find Out More2. worldwide Challenges-Our Crowded Planet-International Divides of Affluence and Poverty-Populations at the Move-Global Environmental Challenges-Find Out More3. in the direction of a brand new fiscal Landscape-The international Economy-Knowledge-Intensive provider Economies--Find Out More4. The altering international of labor and Jobs-Lives much less ruled by means of Work?-Less Securely connected to the Labour Market?-Women at Work-Find Out More5. the educational Society-Educational Attainment-Rising Investments in Education-Global academic styles - Inequalities and scholar Flows-Find Out More6. ICT: the subsequent Generation-The electronic Revolution-Rising Investments in Education-Global academic styles - Inequalities and scholar Flows-Find Out More7. Citizenship and the State-Changing types of Political Participation-The function of the Welfare nation - Smaller Government?-Find Out More8. Social Connections and Values-Living in additional diversified Families-Less Social Interaction?-Evolving Values-Find Out More9. Sustainable Affluence?-Growing Affluence, turning out to be power Consumption-Inequality at the Rise-Lifestyles with health and wellbeing Risks-Find Out extra
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One way to show the scale of the change is to compare the share of younger and older adults with higher education (the broad term covering all “third-level” provision after secondary education). Less than 1 in 5 of those from their mid-fifties to mid-sixties are qualified at the higher level across the OECD as a whole in contrast with the nearly one-third (32%) of 25- to 34-year-olds. The proportion with higher education has gone up by over 20 percentage points between the older and younger adults in Japan, Korea, Ireland, Spain and France (in Korea the increase was more than fivefold from 10% to 51%).
We can examine not only whether people have jobs and how long they work in the year or their lifetime but the kinds of jobs they do. An important dimension to consider is whether there are more or fewer in jobs which offer secure contracts, career opportunities and benefits, including access to training. Two indicators of this are included in this section: the proportion in temporary jobs and the proportion in part-time work. The growth in numbers on temporary contracts, charted over a longer time frame than with part-time work, is more clear-cut: there has been a steady increase in temporary work since the early 1980s.
The shift towards jobs in the service industry often calls for more education. Moreover, the growing knowledge-intensity of the economy calls for very advanced skills and qualifications. 3. 1787/404133156283 Source: OECD (2007), STAN database for Industrial Analysis. The figure shows that services now account for almost all new jobs while in many OECD countries jobs are disappearing in the manufacturing and other industries. 5%, while in the service economy they had gone up by a further 11% in only 20 years.