The Education System

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  • UNESCO Resources

    Planipolis (IIEP UNESCO) is a portal of national education plans and policies and key education frameworks and monitoring reports. It provides a single entry point to official education resources.
     
     
    The 7th edition of the World Data on Education 2010/11 (UNESCO International Bureau of education) contains detailed and systematized information on education systems, with a particular emphasis on curricula and curriculum development processes.
     

  • OECD Resources

    The OECD Education Policy Outlook Profiles review the current context and situation of countries’ education system and examines challenges and policy responses, according to six policy levers: How to raise outcomes for all students in terms of 1) equity and quality and 2) preparing students for the future; How to raise education institutions’ quality through 3) school improvement and 4) evaluation and assessment and; How the system is organised to deliver education policy in terms of 5) governance and 6) funding.
     
     

  • EU Resources

    The Eurydice Country database provides an overview of national education systems with detailed information concerning for example organization and governance, funding, management and education staff, quality assurance, mobility and ongoing reforms and policy development.
     
     
    The Education and Training Monitor is an annual publication of the European Commission that captures the evolution of education and training in the EU. It relies on a broad range of quantitative and qualitative sources, including Eurostat data, OECD studies and surveys, analysis of education systems undertaken by the Eurydice network, quantitative analysis of survey datasets, and academic networks.
     
    European Commission. (2017). Education and Training Monitor 2017: Italy (report).
     
    European Commission. (2017). Education and Training Monitor 2017 : Italy (factsheet).

    Eurydice. (2015). Early Childhood Education and Care Systems in Europe, National Information Sheets 2014/15.