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Release of the Global Education Digest 2006 |
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Contributed by Lea Ayoub
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The 2006 edition of the Global Education Digest, published by UNESCO's Institute for Statistics, focuses on tertiary education across the world. It shows, through a wide collection of statistics, that the growth of university-level education is associated with globalisation and greater socio-economic mobility.
By surveying the flows of what is called "internationally mobile students", it presents data on the state of tertiary education in countries of different income level, gender balance in education, as well as in the fields of study. It also provides a greater understanding of the "internationalisation of tertiary education" trend and researches its impact on the countries of origin and on host countries, as well as the reasons why students leave the former to join the latter.
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