Which Careers Produce Students Become For?

by Marie-Helene Doumet
Senior Analyst, Directorate for Education together with Skills

Career decisions are wrought inward complexities. Many students starting fourth dimension past times looking at their interests, selecting a career inward delineate with their personal affinities or aspirations. They volition reckon their ain self-beliefs inward their capacity to perform together with succeed inward a given career, together with and therefore ingredient inward labour marketplace position prospects, employment, earnings, together with the possibilities to progress inward their chosen profession over a lifetime.

But career decisions are non precisely nigh students’ choices: they likewise interact with a issue of populace policy objectives, such equally making teaching systems to a greater extent than efficient, aligning skills to the demands of the labour market, together with helping improve social equity. Some countries convey sought to promote sure as shooting fields or pathways over others through fiscal incentives or past times opening access. Conversely, other fields impose highly selective admissions processes. As students are confronted with to a greater extent than possibilities, it is essential to ensure that they convey the proper guidance to navigate through the wealth of pathways opened upward to them. That volition ease the sometimes bumpy transition from teaching to the labour market.

This 2017 edition of Education at a Glance focuses on fields of written report – who studies what across dissimilar teaching pathways . Results demonstrate that the most mutual discipline for 3rd students is delineate of piece of work organisation direction together with law, whereas the fields of natural sciences, mathematics together with statistics or information together with communications engineering (ICT) are the to the lowest degree attractive. Gender differences inward enrolments are striking: 24% of entrants into applied scientific discipline programmes are women compared to 78% inward the champaign of education. The constabulary of render together with demand determines the occupation prospects of 3rd graduates. For example,  although they are alongside the smallest grouping of 3rd graduates, ICT graduates savour i of the highest occupation rates. This signals a shortage of render inward the labour market. Data from a novel indicator on the national criteria to apply together with function into into 3rd education shows that, equally 3rd teaching expands, to a greater extent than or less countries convey turned towards regulating access to sure as shooting fields of written report inward guild to link them to a greater extent than strongly with the needs of the labour market.

However, piece educational attainment has been expanding over the past times decade, at that topographic point is no guarantee that everyone volition progress smoothly through it. In fact, upper secondary graduation is nonetheless a challenge for some. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 novel indicator on upper secondary completion rates shows that almost i inward 4 upper secondary students does non consummate the programme inside 2 years of its theoretical terminate appointment – of which most drib out of schoolhouse entirely.

This is non the precisely surface area where equity remains elusive. Education at a Glance dedicates a total chapter to the Sustainable Development Goals, analysing where OECD together with partner countries stand upward inward their progress towards achieving “inclusive together with equitable character teaching together with promoting lifelong learning opportunities for all”. Results demonstrate that piece progress has been made, at that topographic point is nonetheless a long agency to become on the route to equity together with to a greater extent than inclusion inward education.

Want to larn more? Education at a Glance 2017 analyses 28 indicators relating to participation inward together with progress through education, the fiscal together with human resources invested, together with the economical together with social outcomes expected across OECD together with partner countries.You tin access together with download the information from the OECD Education at a Glance Database; visualise primary results for your Earth from our Compare Your Country interface ; together with meliorate sympathise the methodology underlying the indicators with the updated OECD Handbook for Internationally Comparative Education Indicators.

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Education at a Glance (EAG) 2017
OECD Education at a Glance Database
Compare Your Country
OECD Handbook for Internationally Comparative Education Indicators

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