OCDE invirtiendo en jóvenes para al itesm

Notas del editor

• #9: En México 16% de los jóvenes entre 25-34 años tienen educación superior (lugar 22 de 30) y sólo el 7% de aquellos entre 55 y 64 años.
• #11: What is most important is that today it is no longer the quantity of education, but the quality that matters. Let us go back to the 1960s. The chart shows you the wealth of world regions and the average years of schooling in these regions, which is the most traditional measure of human capital. Have a look at Latin America, it ranked third in wealth and third in years of schooling, so in the 1960s the world seemed pretty much in order.
• #12: But when you look at economic growth between 1960 and 2000, you see that something went wrong. Despite the fact that Latin America did well in terms of years of schooling, only Sub-Saharan Africa did worse in terms of economic growth. So in 2000, Latin America had fallen back considerably in terms of GDP per capita. You can draw two conclusions from this: Either education is not as important for economic growth as we thought, or we have for a long time been measuring the wrong thing.
• #20: Countries at the bottom of the league tend to be suspicious about those high performing countries because the kind of policies you need to activate to get from good to great are very different than what you need to move from poor to adequate. But even if you don’t want to change your system, there is a lot that PISA shows you can learn from the most successful schools in your own system. Let us use the horizontal axis to represent the social background of students and schools and the vertical axis to show the performance of schools. Now you can show where each school in Mexico stands with regard to how well it does and the socio-economic conditions under which it works. The first thing you see is that there is a relationship between social background and school performance. But you also see that there is lots of variability in school performance. Let us just look at a slice of schools that work under similarly disadvantaged social conditions. You see that some of them do very well even by OECD standards while others do quite poorly. If Mexican schools would achieve what Mexican schools show can be achieved, Mexico’s overall performance would be significantly higher. Similarly, you can look at the schools where rich parents sent their children, all marked in green which tells you that these are private schools. But not all of them are of good quality.
• #30: … que flexibilicen la contratación por periodos de tiempo reducidos y contratos de aprendiz ...reduzcan los costos de emplear jóvenes poco preparados … que eviten discriminación … incrementen el atractivo de la formalización del empleo