Global Education Digest 2009 - Comparing Education Statistics Across the World

This 2009 edition presents a wide range of educational indicators to assess progress towards Education for All Millenium Development Goals. Theses cross-nationally comparable indicatrs also provide benchmarks for the performance of national education systems. The special of this 2009 global education digest is the analysis of emerging global trends in teritiary education, highlighting the rapid growth of tertiairy education systems since 1970, changing patterns in tertiary education graduates by fiekd of study, and in particular, the changing landscape odf international student mobility.