The UK is far from unique in having a problem with low levels of basic skills amongst a group of its working age population. However, the rates of innumeracy and illiteracy identified by the Moser Report, 1999 and the Skills for Life Survey, 2003 were viewed as unacceptably high for an advanced...

Although not exclusive to the Republic of Korea´s educational system, the pervasiveness of private tutoring, and its consequences, serve to distinguish it from systems operated in other countries. However, the identification of inefficiencies linked to this phenomenon have seen the educational...

Los indicadores habitualmente utilizados para medir el fracaso escolar ponen en evidencia la clara necesidad de España por mejorar su alta tasa de abandono escolar prematuro, el nivel educativo de la población de 20 a 24 años y las dificultades de comprensión lectora de los alumnos. A pesar...

In this paper we use unique retrospective family background data from wave 13th of the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) to analyze the relevance of family background, in particular parental education - separated for fathers and mothers -, and gender on differential educational achievement....

The ratio of skill to unskilled labour stocks in the economy is widely acknowledged to have an important role for development. Can education policy do anything to affect the evolution of this ratio? This paper shows that it can, and it also shows that the actual effect of education policy...

The Italian educational system is strictly regulated by the Ministry of Education. However, there are strong differences in educational inputs and outputs among Regions, as can be noticed by analyzing the allocation of public budgets to the Regions and their students' (average) performance in...

Durante los últimos veinte años se ha producido en nuestro país un avance trascendental en la consecución de la plena escolarización de los jóvenes hasta los dieciséis años de edad, por lo que el principal reto al que se enfrenta, actualmente, el sistema educativo español en su etapa...

The lack of formal education and competences of the Portuguese workers is one of the biggest problems of the country. This lack is not shrinking at the wanted speed and the young generations still lag far behind the ones in other OCDE countries. This paper studies the intergenerational...

The purpose of this work is to assess the effects of the extraordinary expansion of higher education supply in Colombia during the 1990s on the equality of tertiary education opportunity. In this work, the notion of increasing equality of opportunity is associated with a reduction in the...

El desarrollo y consolidación de las nuevas tecnologías de la información y la comunicación (TIC) ha dado paso a la denominada sociedad del conocimiento. La vieja discusión sobre el acceso al desarrollo de las regiones menos favorecidas por la Revolución Industrial ha quedado obsoleta por...