1. Education and Training Monitor 2016

2. 1. Is public expenditure on education increasing or decreasing in the EU?
2. EU almost met target value of 95 % children aged 4+ in early childhood education and care. What next on the ECEC agenda?
3. What are tangible policy measures that countries can take to make education systems responsive to needs of society and labour market?
4. Education and learning concern young people. Or not only?

3. What is the Monitor

4. > A data driven publication
1. Is public expenditure on education increasing or decreasing in the EU?
> A data driven publication
2. EU almost met target value of 95% children aged 4+ in early childhood education and care. What next on the ECEC agenda?
> Reporting on Europe 2020 and ET 2020 targets and priority themes in education
3. What are tangible policy measures that countries can take to make education systems responsive to needs of society and labour market?
> A tool for peer learning
4. Education and learning concern young people. Or not only?
> An integrated ET 2020 approach to education and training

5. A cross-national report with clickable data
28 country reports
Leaflet on ET 2020 benchmarks
Interactive maps
Library of good practices
Press material: infographics, factsheets, …
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6. This presentation Challenges Low achievement Transition to employment
Active citizenship
Financing education
Responsive education systems
Widening participation
ECEC
School
Higher education
Responsive education systems
Modernisation agenda
Schools
VET HE
Adult learning

7. Challenges impacting on education

8. Underachievement in basic skills
15 year-olds (ET 2020)
age group 20-34
Numeracy: 14.3 %
Literacy: 11.5 %

9. Employment of recent graduates (age group 20-34)
76.9 % of recent graduates were employed in 2015, on the rise comparing to 2013 (75.4 %) and 2014 (76.1 %)
Pre-crisis level: 82% (2008)

10. Active citizenship (Paris Declaration)
National policies to ensure that children and young people acquire social, civic and intercultural skills.
Efforts to promote intercultural dialogue through national education policies DK IE LT ES DE LV AT BE EE FI LU IT CY NL FR
UK-WLS
UK-ENG PT IE IT LT LU DE ES LV AT CY BG BE EE SE FR
UK-NIR PT

11. School age population 2040 forecasts (age 5-18)
Changing demographic landscape in Europe
School age population 2040 forecasts (age 5-18)
Asylum applications
Increase LT 34 %
PT, EL, LV,
ES, SK 20
Decrease
BE, SE 72 LU
80 %
< 17 year-olds
< 34 year-olds
30 %
EU: -3%

12. Investing efficiently and effectively
In 2014 public expenditure on education in the EU started growing again, with an annual increase of 1.1 %
10 Member States (BE, EE, EL, HR, IT, CY, LT, AT, SI, FI) reduced their spending on education in 2014 compared to 2013

13. Responsive education systems: widening participation

14. Widening participation (ECEC 4+)
Increased rate in EL, LT and PL. However, there are still 11 Member States with a participation rate below 90 % and 2 below 80 % (HR and SK)

15. Widening participation
(ECEC <3)

16. Widening participation (preventing ELET)

17. 13 Member States met their national targets
Widening participation (preventing ELET)
17 MS recorded rates below 10 %; BE and DE were below 10 % in 2014 but are now just above (10.1 %)
13 Member States met their national targets

18. Foreign-born young people from outside the EU have higher ESL rate: 19
Foreign-born young people from outside the EU have higher ESL rate: 19.8% on average.
In IE and UK, native-born people have higher ESL rates than foreign-born
ESL rates for boys are twice as high as those of girls in CY, PL, LV, SI, LT, EE and DK.

19. Widening participation (tertiary attainment)

20. 12 Member States met their national targets
Widening participation (tertiary attainment)
17 MS recorded rates of 40 %: EL for the first time, LV reaching the target once again. AT slipped slightly below the target
12 Member States met their national targets

21. In DK, EE, IE, LV, LU, MT and UK: opposite trend
The gap between women and men increased from 2014 in 21 Member States and is highest in LV, SI, EE and LT
Tertiary attainment rate is 3% higher for native-born than for the foreign-born
In DK, EE, IE, LV, LU, MT and UK: opposite trend

22. Responsive education systems: modernisation agenda

23. Early on: quality ECEC
Starting age of legal entitlement to ECEC
Professionalisation of ECEC all along the cycle (teachers with tertiary qualifications, CPD a duty or necessary for promotion, curriculum guidelines)
Language support
Quality framework and development of indicators

24. Teachers: dealing with diversity
Collaboration within and outside schools
(among teachers, and whole school)
Guidance on underachievement in ITE
Dealing with diversity as PD topic
Teacher workforce

25. Social dimension of higher education

26. Adult learning BM not progressing, Gap of low-skilled is widening
Second chance education still minor
3.6%
Skills Guarantee under preparation

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