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Research Digest - July 2022
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Publications
Social Mobility Commission
This report looks at the underlying factors of social mobility and improving the tracking of actual social mobility – movement, from one generation to the other, from one category of occupation or income to another. The analysis shows that there has been no decline in the rates of absolute or relative occupational mobility for decades, and the UK has good rates when compared internationally. In contrast, there probably has been a decline in absolute and relative income mobility for people born in the late 1970s and beyond.
Recovering Learning: Are children and youth on track in skills development?
Anna Alejo & Haogen Yao
This report provides a comprehensive view of skills attainment among children and youth. Today, most young people are not building the full range of skills they need to succeed. Poor levels of skills development can be found across all country income groups but are particularly evident among youth in low- and lower-middle-income countries, home to more than half of the world’s children and young people. The report shows to achieve global success; there is a need for commitment to supporting the holistic development of children and young people, through better and more inclusive data.
Education finance watch 2022
The World Bank & UNESCO
The EFW 2022 digs deeper the trends and patterns of education spending, using the full breadth of available data. The EFW 2022 sheds further light on the impact of COVID-19 on global education financing in 2020, 2021, and 2022. It conducts a focused analysis of recent trends in government education budgets using the latest data available for a subsample of high-income (HICs), low-income and lower-middle in-come countries (LICs and LMICs), as of May 2022.
Education Fast Forward: Building a future that works for all
OECD
The report tries to answer questions about the resilience of education systems after the pandemic. What are the fundamental purposes of education today? What are the kinds of skills that will matter most? What kinds of learning environments will 21st-century students flourish in? Resilience to external risks and innovation in education can go hand in hand. If we anticipate the future, we can shape it too. Yes, the pandemic surprised us. But it taught us that, if need be, we can rewire our systems on the fly. And if we can do that, we have it in us to craft a more robust, bolder, better education.
Setting commitments: national SDG 4 benchmarks to transform education, 2022
UNESCO
This publication has three objectives. First, it describes the results of the follow-up to this process that was carried out between February and May 2022. Second, this publication proposes a way forward for monitoring progress towards the national SDG 4 benchmarks relative to each country’s starting point. Third, as the purpose of the national SDG 4 benchmark setting process is to help accelerate progress towards the common education goal, 12 case studies present how the respective countries approached the challenge of setting benchmarks and linked them to their national strategies, plans and policies.
Does the digital world open up an increasing divide in access to print books?
OECD
Over the last two decades, reading has shifted from taking place on paper to, increasingly, screens. As digitalisation spreads, there have been growing concerns about unbalanced access to new types of resources between socio-economically advantaged and disadvantaged students. PISA 2018 results show that while disadvantaged students are catching up in access to digital resources, their access to cultural capital, like paper books at home, has diminished, and the socio-economic gap has been persistent over the last two decades. This policy brief draws education stakeholders’ attention to this issue. It provides evidence for the discussion of equity in education by examining how access to books at home is related to students’ prevalent mode of reading books, their performance in reading and their enjoyment of reading.
Connecting Learning Spaces: Possibilities for Hybrid Learning
UNESCO
The report provides informed and contextualized guidance to policy-makers and other education stakeholders who aim to implement new learning strategies, while also acknowledging the benefits and risks of hybrid learning. It stresses the need to have a context-based approach and emphasises the multiple enabling strategies required for hybrid learning to be authentically inclusive and equity-minded. Such strategies include (1) a digital skills strategy for life, work, and lifelong learning, (2) a connectivity and infrastructure strategy, and (3) a sustainable funding strategy. In addition, the report offers scenarios for future developments by analysing the impact that emerging frontier technologies such as AI, 5G and blockchain can have on the future of learning.
The State of Global Learning Poverty: 2022 Update
Jaime Saavedra Stefania Giannini Robert Jenkins Alicia Herbert LeAnna Marr & Benjamin Piper
This report provides the first update of the global and regional learning poverty numbers, and it reaffirms that even before COVID, learning poverty was very high and progress in reducing it had stalled. The average global learning poverty rate was 57 percent in low- and middle-income countries in 2019, with the rate reaching 86 percent in Sub-Saharan Africa. Even more concerning, after significant global progress in reducing learning poverty between 2000 and 2015, progress had stalled between 2015 and 2019.
Comments
Equipping young people with the skills to thrive: the OECD Youth Recommendation
Veerle Miranda & Shunta Takino
Building vulnerable people’s skills for a digital, green, & inclusive world
Bart Staats & Ana Sofía Gómez
Turning the tide on global learning poverty
Jaime Saavedra, Stefania Giannini, Robert Jenkins, Alicia Herbert, Leanna Marr & Benjamin Piper
Events
Sustainable Education Summit with Edge Foundation and Schools of Tomorrow
17th November 2022 10:00 – 15:30 BST
Edge Foundation
We believe no child should be constrained by stereotypes or the expectations of others. We know that if young people hear firsthand about the world of work, they work harder, get better grades and are more likely to break down barriers.
They should have the chance to start as early as possible, and that is why we launched the national I am #InspiringTheFuture campaign.
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