via Charlie Ball at HECSU
The OECD’s annual Education At A Glance is out, one of my favourite publications. That’s not because the OECD’s idea of ‘a glance’ runs to 440 pages, but rather because it’s full of lovely stats.
The main headlines in the press have been about the value of qualifications in recession – something we all knew but nice to have it reiterated so starkly.
You can see my, ahem, wise and far-sighted commentary in this Guardian article, quotes taken about 15 minutes before I was due to collect my 4-year old daughter from her first ever trip to primary school (this involved lots of crying, foot-dragging and ‘I don’t want to’s – she, on the other hand, was fine).
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Ooops! I've “blogged” the Guardian article without realising who was quoted in it!
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Wednesday, 23 January 2013
Social benefits of higher education
via HECSU Blog by Charlie Ball
The OECD has just released a brief report on the social benefits of HE across their member nations. Much of the information comes from Education at a Glance, but presented in a neat way.
The UK is included, of course, and data shows that graduates are significantly more likely to vote in the UK, and more likely to report satisfaction with life in general than non-graduates (no life expectancy figures for the UK, oddly enough). Graduates in Greece seem pretty hacked off, though, and who can blame them?
This kind of information is always very welcome as we all want rather more metrics to demonstrate the value of HE than rather narrow measures of individual lifetime earnings.
More of this sort of thing, please!
With grateful thanks to Charlie – I missed this completely in the OECD postings.
The OECD has just released a brief report on the social benefits of HE across their member nations. Much of the information comes from Education at a Glance, but presented in a neat way.
The UK is included, of course, and data shows that graduates are significantly more likely to vote in the UK, and more likely to report satisfaction with life in general than non-graduates (no life expectancy figures for the UK, oddly enough). Graduates in Greece seem pretty hacked off, though, and who can blame them?
This kind of information is always very welcome as we all want rather more metrics to demonstrate the value of HE than rather narrow measures of individual lifetime earnings.
More of this sort of thing, please!
With grateful thanks to Charlie – I missed this completely in the OECD postings.
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