Dive Brief:
- The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, or UNESCO, has come up with 42 possible metrics to track global progress in education at all levels, worldwide.
- Campus Technology reports a working group will eventually prioritize six to 10 indicators and create goals to be reached by 2030.
- Indicators include access to "affordable and quality" post-secondary education, expansion of the number of higher education scholarships to people in developing countries, and a range of metrics for younger students.
Dive Insight:
The OECD already has an international assessment, called PISA, which tests 15-year-olds from 70 countries on a small number of subjects every three years. This is meant to track global learning and provide a common yardstick for comparing systems across countries. UNESCO is not proposing a new testing tool, but rather a common set of standards with which to measure educational progress. Education 2030, as this new measure will be called, aims to finalize a list of indicators that work for all countries. Equity, as Campus Technology reports, will be a major focus in the progress review.