World Education Indicators 2001 [electronic resource] : Teachers for Tomorrow's Schools
Publishing, OECD.
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development StaffCorporate Author
Innovation, Centre for Educational Research and.
World Bank StaffContent Provider
Unesco StaffContent Provider
 : Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development,
2001.
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""Table of Contents""; ""Foreword""; ""Introduction""; ""Rising demand for education and teachers""; ""Resource levels for education and how money is spent""; ""What teacherss are asked and what they are offered""; ""Readerâ€?s guide""; ""Definitions and methods""; ""Coverage of the data""; ""Calculation of international averages""; ""Chapter 1.  Teachers today""; ""Introduction""; ""1.  Macro-economic conditions and resources for education""; ""Figure 1.1. Average annual change in GDP growth, 1990-1994 and 1994-1998""
""Figure 1.2. Government revenue as a percentage of GDP, 1990 and late 1980s""""Figure 1.3. GDP per capita, 1995, 1997 and 1999""; ""Figure 1.4. GDP per capita and income disparity in the 1990s""; ""2. Teachers and the funding and governance of education""; ""Availability of public resources""; ""Figure 1.5. Public expenditure on educational institutions as a percentage of GDP, 1998""; ""Figure 1.6. Expenditure per student by educational level, 1998""; ""Use of public resources""; ""Figure 1.7. Per pupil expenditure by level of education and GDP growth in Malaysia, 1996 and 1998""
""Figure 1.8. Expenditure per student as a percentage of GDP per capita, 1998""""Figure 1.9. Capital and compensation-related expenditure as a proportion of total expenditure in primary and secondary levels, 1998""; ""Governance of schools""; ""Figure 1.10. Compensation for teachers and other staff as a proportion of total current expenditure by level, 1998""; ""Box 1.1. The effects on teachers of decentralising education systems""; ""Table 1.1. Shifts in levels of authority over educational decision-making, 1990s""
""Table 1.2. Levels of authority over educational decision-making at ISCED 1/2, 1997""""3.  Teachers and the organisation of learning""; ""Growing levels of participation in education""; ""Figure 1.11. Expected years of schooling and GDP per capita, 1998""; ""Figure 1.12. Expected years of schooling under current conditions, 1996 and 1998""; ""Figure 1.13. Share of students in private educational institutions by level of education, 1998""; ""Figure 1.14. Proportion of students repeating current grade by educational level, 1998""
""Figure 1.15. Upper secondary graduation rates by type of programme, 1998""""Figure 1.16. Tertiary graduation rates by type of programme, 1998""; ""Table 1.3. Prevalence of multiple-shift schooling, late 1990s""; ""Box 1.2. What happens in the classroom? Evidence from international assessments""; ""Figure 1.17. National achievement scores in mathematics and sciences, 1999""; ""Figure 1.18. Shortages or inadequacies that affect schoolsâ€? capacity to provide science instruction""; ""Figure 1.19. Teachersâ€? confidence in their preparation to teach science and mathematics topics""
""4.  Profiles of the teaching force""
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