Education counts: benchmarking progress in 19 WEI countries: World Education Indicators 2007

Helping governments benchmark their education systems

By: J. Foy & K. Frostell
Published by: UNESCO Institute for Statistics, 2007
Via: Eldis

In the midst of large-scale social and economic shifts, the global education landscape is changing and despite rapid progress in some World Education Indicator (WEI) countries, they still face challenges at all levels of the education system and many fall short of the goal of universal compulsory education.

This report helps to assess progress and challenges in national education systems from an international perspective. One way in which governments and societies can assess the performance of their education systems is through the use of international comparisons. This progress report provides useful benchmarks for development, especially when national conditions, such as population size, are taken into account to provide context. Further to this the data provided also highlight where national policies have achieved positive results.

(http://www.uis.unesco.org/template/pdf/wei/2007/WEI2007report.pdf)