<ul> <li> Between 2000 and 2012, the proportion of young adults (25-34 year-olds) with a tertiary qualification has grown by more than 3% per year on average in OECD countries. </li> <li> On average across 24 national and sub-national entities participating in the OECD Survey of Adult Skills, 39% of adults have...</li></ul>

<ul> <li> The annual number of teaching hours of teachers differs greatly from one country to another and tends to decrease as the level of education increases. </li> <li> On average across countries, teachers spend half of their working time in non-teaching activities including planning lessons, marking and...</li></ul>

<ul> <li> Almost one in three teachers across countries participating in the 2013 Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS) reports having more than 10% of potentially disruptive students with behaviour problems in their classes. </li> <li> Teachers with more than one in ten students with behaviour...</li></ul>

Every three years, when PISA results are published, the world’s media focuses on countries’ rankings in mathematics, reading and science performance. Often, what is lost in the subsequent national-level soulsearching about how to improve student performance is the fact that many countries...

<ul> <li> Countries where 15-year-old students perform at high standards internationally tend to be the same countries where these young adults tend to perform well at the age of 26 to 28. </li> <li> School systems need to ensure that their students perform at a high level by the time they complete compulsory...</li></ul>

<ul> <li> The report <i>New insights from TALIS 2013: Teaching and learning in primary and upper secondary education</i> (OECD, 2014a) presents an overview of teachers and teaching in primary and upper secondary education for a sample of countries that participated in the OECD Teaching and Learning...</li></ul>

<ul> <li> While most 15-year-old students spend part of their after-school time doing homework, the amount of time they spend on it shrank between 2003 and 2012. </li> <li> Socio-economically advantaged students and students who attend socio-economically advantaged schools tend to spend more time doing homework.</li>...</ul>

<ul> <li> Rising levels of tertiary attainment seem not to have led to an “inflation” eroding the labour-market value of qualifications. However, tertiary graduates have the highest relative earnings advantage when they live in a country with low tertiary attainment rates. </li> <li> On average, compared to...</li></ul>

<ul> <li> Greater anxiety towards mathematics is associated with lower scores in mathematics, both between and within countries. </li> <li>The better a student’s schoolmates perform in mathematics, the greater the student’s anxiety towards mathematics. </li> <li>Teachers’ use of formative assessment practices is...</li></ul>

<ul> <li> While PISA reveals large gender differences in reading, in favour of 15-year-old girls, the gap is narrower when digital reading skills are tested. Indeed, the Survey of Adult Skills suggests that there are no significant gender differences in digital literacy proficiency among 16-29...</li></ul>