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Competitiveness of Educational

Systems

Presentation: Elias Vlker

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Agenda

The Situation around the World

How to Measure Competitiveness

Why Competitiveness 5 Hypotheses

Lessons Learned?

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Why Competitiveness?

Do educational systems have to becompetitive? Why? Or why not?

Is competition a good thing? Also ineducation?

Does quantity or quality matter to us?

What are policy implications?

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5 Hypothesis

1. Economies have a growing demand forhuman capital

2. Europe can not compete with other parts of

the world in cost of unskilled labor3. Skilled and unskilled labor is becoming an

commodity

4. Economic activity becomes less dependanton location

5. Education globalizes as well

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Agenda

The Situation around the World

How to Measure Competitiveness

Why Competitiveness 5 Hypotheses

Lessons Learned?

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OECD Education at a Glance

The OECD offers a comprehensive yearlyreport, Education at a Glance

It offers a wide range of comparables for

educational systems in four chapters:a. The Output of Educational Institutions and the

Impact of Learning

b. Financial and Human Resources Invested in

Educationc. Access to Education, Participation and Progression

d. The Learning Environment and Organization of

Schools

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OECD Education at a Glance

Indicators frequently used are...

% of GDP

spent on

education % of

population w/

secondary

education

% of population w/

tertiary education

Indicators of

social

determinism

Expenditures

per student

Wage

premiums of

educationUnemployment risk

of educational

groups Graduationrates

Public/Private

investments in

education

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Agenda

The Situation around the World

How to Measure Competitiveness

Why Competitiveness 5 Hypotheses

Lessons Learned?

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Around the world in 20 slides...

Korea

USA Po

landGermany

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Development of secondary education

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Development of tertiary education

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Entry Rates into Tertiary Education

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Tertiary Graduation Rates

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Students Expectations

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Expenditure per student

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Expenditure over study

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Expenditure as % of GDP

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Public and private expenditures

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Social Determinism

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Germany Korea Poland USA

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Agenda

The Situation around the World

How to Measure Competitiveness

Why Competitiveness 5 Hypotheses

Lessons Learned?

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What do we learn from this?

Tertiary education is on the rise around the

world

Korea is the international benchmark for most

indicators

Poland is improving at a quick pace, while

Germany is not...

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Implications

While education is the solution to most ofwestern Europes problems, governments

and public seem to be unaware of that

Western Europe is losing ground against

many regions of the world

A turnaround requires large investments

public and private and a mentality change!

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Thank you for

your attention!