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Brazier, Chris – UNICEF, 2017
This Report Card offers an assessment of child well-being in the context of sustainable development across 41 countries of the European Union (EU) and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Specifically, this report seeks to bring the SDG [Sustainable Development Goal] targets for children in high-income countries into…
Descriptors: Developed Nations, Children, Well Being, Sustainable Development
Hanushek, Eric A.; Piopiunik, Marc; Wiederhold, Simon – Program on Education Policy and Governance, 2014
Differences in teacher quality are commonly cited as a key determinant of the huge international student performance gaps. However, convincing evidence on this relationship is still lacking, in part because it is unclear how to measure teacher quality consistently across countries. We use unique international assessment data to investigate the…
Descriptors: Teacher Characteristics, Thinking Skills, Academic Achievement, Teacher Influence
Adamson, Peter – UNICEF, 2013
Part 1 of the Report Card presents a league table of child well-being in 29 of the world's advanced economies. Part 2 looks at what children say about their own well-being (including a league table of children's life satisfaction). Part 3 examines changes in child well-being in advanced economies over the first decade of the 2000s, looking at each…
Descriptors: Developed Nations, Children, Well Being, Life Satisfaction
Adamson, Peter – UNICEF, 2008
A great change is coming over childhood in the world's richest countries. Today's rising generation is the first in which a majority are spending a large part of early childhood in some form of out-of-home child care. At the same time, neuroscientific research is demonstrating that loving, stable, secure, and stimulating relationships with…
Descriptors: Developed Nations, Child Care, Early Childhood Education, Social Change

National Center for Education Statistics (ED), Washington, DC. – 1997
Compared to most countries assessed in 1994, the United States had a greater concentration of adults who scored at the lowest literacy levels across prose, document, and quantitative literacy domains. However, it had one of the higher concentrations of adults who scored at or above level 4 on the prose scale. The proportion of adults who scored at…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Comparative Analysis, Developed Nations
Andersson, Ronnie – 2000
This publication charts and analyzes vocational education and training (VET) funding in Sweden in 1997 with some comparisons back to the late 1980s. Description of the Swedish system for vocational education and training (VET) is complicated, since there is no natural distinction between VET and general education. All initial vocational training…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Education, Developed Nations, Educational Finance
Burn, Barbara B.; And Others – 1990
This book reports on part of the results of an international research effort to analyze the structures and impacts of study abroad programs offered by higher education institutions in France, West Germany, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States. This volume, the first of two, presents the analysis of the structure and dynamics of study…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, College Credits, Developed Nations, Expenditure per Student
Bednarzik, Robert W. – 1989
The rise of the service sector is a major trend common to all western, industrialized countries. Employment in the service sector has increased in 1960-1986 in all 10 countries participating in the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development's Centre for Educational Research and Innovation Human Resources project (Japan, Belgium, France,…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adults, Age Differences, Comparative Analysis
Sorrentino, Constance – 1981
This bulletin examines the labor market experience of youth in the United States and eight other industrial countries from the early 1960s to the late 1970s. The analysis focuses upon unemployment, the most visible and measurable form of labor underutilization. The report highlights the size of the youth unemployment problem and discusses some of…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Apprenticeships, Career Counseling, Career Guidance
Pennell, Maryland; Showell, Shirlene – 1975
Compiling available statistical information on the status of women in health careers, the chart book was designed for use at the International Conference on Women in Health. Tables and figures illustrate statements through statistics and graphs. In the section dealing with the United States, tables present a broad statistical base, and figures…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Charts, Comparative Analysis, Developed Nations
Brett, Patricia – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1992
A recent compilation of educational indicators from 20 industrialized countries in North America, the Pacific, Europe, and Scandinavia shows rates and trends in college enrollment and graduation, education-related earning power for men and women, and public spending on education. Educational attainment rates are charted for the 20 nations. (MSE)
Descriptors: College Graduates, Developed Nations, Educational Attainment, Educational Trends