The Australian education system fares well in international comparison with regards to PISA test scores and the higher … education system attracts an increasing number of foreign students. Vocational education and training (VET) is an important part … of the post–secondary education system, equipping individuals with the skills to enter or re–enter the labour force and …

spend comparatively few years in formal education, and the quality of the education they receive is lower than in other OECD … countries. This paper discusses the performance of education services up to the upper secondary level. It assesses both the … efficiency (outcome for money invested) and the equity of the system and shows that the education system has to be improved …

reallocation of resources as structural adjustment proceeds. Important reforms to decentralise primary and secondary education in …An effective system of education and training is important for both social and economic reasons. Its role in the Polish … attention on quality control and the place of vocational education. Both are important in the tertiary sector, too, which has …

resources devoted to education and training but from inefficiencies and misallocation of spending, and weaknesses in the quality … of education and training services in Portugal and shows that improvements are needed to narrow the significant human … in formal education, and they do not perform as well as children from other OECD countries. Adults, especially the least …

In France, the number of years of schooling is high, and so is spending on education. Over the past thirty years …, more generally, is the impact of education on the growth of productivity in France in the medium term? Neo-classical growth … of the number of years of schooling. Second, it does not mean that all forms of education expenditures have a high …

relationship between three measures of health- and education-related human capital of children and the distribution of resources …

education and associated years of schooling have expanded substantially in developing countries in recent years. But has this … improvements in the access to the education system and in educational outcomes across the welfare distribution between and within … schooling years. We find great heterogeneity in the distribution of progress of education, with very little pro-poor progress in …

This review describes the research frontier on human capital and education in economics research. It delineates what is … aims. First, it draws out the implications for key education policy issues, highlighting which policy ideas can be …