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A two-ring data-coverage chart shows OECD mapped 31 global vocational-training datasets, with only 84% covering basic enrolment and just 42-48% covering workforce, financing, quality or governance data.
🎓 Education Report

OECD Finds Vocational Training Data Too Patchy to Track Who Is Being Trained for Green Jobs

An OECD policy brief published in September 2026 finds technical and vocational education data too fragmented to show whether training keep…

EduFabTech · 4d ago · 4 min read
An abstract globe with mobility arcs introduces the OECD-EU observatory's headline figures: 29% doctoral mobility, top U.S. PhD pay of $126,300, and 56.6% of EU researchers now in business.
🎓 Education Report

New OECD-EU Database Compares Researcher Mobility and Pay Across 53 Countries, Finds Wide Divergence

A new OECD-EU database covering 53 countries tracks doctoral mobility, gender gaps and pay among researchers, finding that similar training…

EduFabTech · 4d ago · 4 min read
An amber readiness meter shows hiring still weighted toward degree requirements, with only Australia, Sweden, France and the UK edging closest to skills-first on OECD's new 25-indicator index — and no country reaching it.
📈 Policy & Business Report

OECD's First Skills-First Index Finds No Country Has Fully Moved Past Degree-Based Hiring

The OECD's first Skills-First Readiness and Adoption Index finds Australia, Sweden, France and the UK ahead of the pack, but no country has…

EduFabTech · 6d ago · 4 min read
A diverging-lines chart shows the gap between projected teaching posts needed and teachers actually in the system, widening toward 44 million by 2030.
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A Year After the Santiago Consensus, Teacher Shortages Are Still Widening, OECD and UNESCO Data Show

OECD and UNESCO data show teacher attrition, unfilled posts and underqualified staffing rising across very different school systems a year …

EduFabTech · 21 Sep 2026 · 5 min read
A bar chart shows OECD government R&D budgets shifting in 2024: general university funding up 2.1%, defence up 11.5%, energy and environment down 8.0%, framed by the headline on falling real-terms budgets.
📈 Policy & Business Report

Government R&D Budgets Fall in Real Terms as Funding Tilts Toward Defence, OECD and EU Data Show

OECD and Eurostat data for 2024–2025 show government R&D budgets shrinking in real terms across most member countries, with defence researc…

EduFabTech · 19 Sep 2026 · 4 min read
Bar trio shows student (88%), faculty (77%) and OECD teacher (37%) AI use in 2026, with confidence in instructor readiness far lower at 29%.
🎓 Education Report

Two 2026 Surveys Show AI Use in Higher Education Nearly Doubling, With Guidance Lagging Behind

Two 2026 datasets — an OECD teacher survey and a 35-country higher-education poll — show AI use surging past the training, assessment redes…

EduFabTech · 17 Sep 2026 · 4 min read
A descending three-bar chart (2015→2022→2025) beside the headline shows OECD reading and maths scores hitting their lowest recorded levels, with the 28-point reading drop, 22-point maths drop, and "1 in 5 low performers" stats called out.
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PISA 2025: Reading and Maths Scores Fall to Record Lows Across the OECD

The OECD's PISA 2025 assessment of 760,000 15-year-olds in 91 countries found reading and mathematics scores at record lows, with one in fi…

EduFabTech · 14 Sep 2026 · 4 min read