While the purpose of education can’t be reduced to promoting economic growth, every child out of school represents both lost opportunities — and huge economic costs — for countries.
- Lecturer in Economics and Social Statistics, UCL
The stakes could be highest for students around the world as education systems decide how to respond to the changing shape of global standardized testing.
Conventional wisdom across much of the Western world says there’s a strong link between education and upward social mobility. Really?
New research shows that many adults across the world are financially illiterate and unable to complete even basic mathematical calculations.
Teenagers in Shanghai, Singapore and Hong Kong outperformed those in London, Madrid and Dubai.
Some countries experienced big changes when the global test of 15-year-olds moved from paper to online.
Analysis of a maths teaching method popular in East Asia shows promise, but not enough to roll out nationally yet.
It is no secret that children of East Asian heritage excel at school. In England, for example, 78% of ethnic Chinese children obtain at least 5 A* to C GCSE grades, compared to a national average of just…
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