11.12.

2007

Competitiveness of Educational
Systems
Presentation: Elias Völker
 Agenda

Why Competitiveness – 5 Hypotheses

How to Measure Competitiveness

The Situation around the World

Lessons Learned?

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 Why Competitiveness?

 Do educational systems have to be

competitive? Why? Or why not?

 Is competition a good thing? Also in

education?

 Does quantity or quality matter to us?

 What are policy implications?

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 5 Hypothesis

1. Economies have a growing demand for

human capital
2. Europe can not compete with other parts of
the world in cost of unskilled labor
3. Skilled and unskilled labor is becoming an
commodity
4. Economic activity becomes less dependant
on location
5. Education globalizes as well

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 Agenda

Why Competitiveness – 5 Hypotheses

How to Measure Competitiveness

The Situation around the World

Lessons Learned?

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 OECD – Education at a Glance

 The OECD offers a comprehensive yearly

report, „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
Education
c. 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 % of population w/
education tertiary education
% of
population w/
secondary
education Wage
premiums of Expenditures
Unemployment risk education per student
of educational
groups Graduation
rates Indicators of
social
Public/Private determinism
investments in
education

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 Agenda

Why Competitiveness – 5 Hypotheses

How to Measure Competitiveness

The Situation around the World

Lessons Learned?

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 Around the world in 20 slides...

Ge
rm
an l and
A y Po
US
orea
K

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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

Why Competitiveness – 5 Hypotheses

How to Measure Competitiveness

The Situation around the World

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 of

western Europe‘s 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!

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