OECD Education Outlook 2021 Report Released

One of the areas most damaged by the pandemic, which has had a negative impact on all areas of life since the first months of 2020, has been education. Approximately for 1.5 years distance education continued in our country and there were similar practices in many countries around the world.

Distance education, along with difficulties in accessing the internet, computer or tablet suffering of students also brought it up. Students, especially those who are socio-economically disadvantaged, were deprived of education due to inequalities of opportunity. This caused many children not to receive a proper education in this process.

OECD released its ‘Education Outlook 2021’ report

According to a report in euronews, OECD The ‘Education Outlook 2021’ report published by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) revealed the impact of these inequalities of opportunity on education. In the report, among OECD countries, Turkey was the country where the socio-economic situation affected the student’s success the most. The country that was least affected by these differences was Canada.

Among the issues that the report focuses on, students who are in a socio-economically disadvantaged position not being able to reach the necessary materials for distance education, issues such as not being able to get support from their parents and not having their own workspace.

These students are less likely to pursue higher education

While the report emphasizes that students in the disadvantaged group are less likely to continue their higher education; children of immigrant families noted that this rate is much higher. Another important point in the report was that digital education increased these inequalities.

Drawing attention to the fact that schools are closed for longer periods in countries where the education system is underperforming, the report also included information on how much OECD countries invested in education during the pandemic. According to this 60 percent of OECD countries increased the budgets they spend on education during the pandemic.

The points where the budget is spent the most in the field of education are by increasing the number of teachers. reducing class sizes, It was to get the necessary equipment for distance education and to provide students with additional scholarships.