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A diverging-lines chart shows the gap between projected teaching posts needed and teachers actually in the system, widening toward 44 million by 2030.
🎓 Education Report

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 · 2h ago · 5 min read
A curriculum document being scanned for climate and biodiversity keywords, showing how rarely they light up, alongside headline stats: 73% of curricula have some green content but only 34% address climate and none reach "significant" depth.
🎓 Education Report

A New UN Indicator Finds Climate Content Is Still Thin in Most National School Curricula

A new UN-recognised indicator scans the actual text of national curriculum frameworks rather than relying on self-reporting. It finds most …

EduFabTech · 1d ago · 4 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 · 2d ago · 4 min read
A donut chart shows 64% of 163 countries (105 of them) saw youth unemployment rise between 2023 and 2025, alongside the global 12.4% jobless rate, 67 million unemployed youth, and a 20% NEET rate.
🎓 Education Report

ILO's 2026 Youth Employment Report Finds Unemployment Rising in Most of the World's Subregions

The ILO's Global Employment Trends for Youth 2026 report found the global youth unemployment rate rising to 12.4% in 2025, with joblessness…

EduFabTech · 3d ago · 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 · 4d ago · 4 min read
A reversing trend line shows the global out-of-school population falling by a third to 2015, then rising for a 7th straight year to 273 million in 2024.
🎓 Education Report

UNESCO's 2026 Monitoring Report Finds Out-of-School Numbers Rising for a Seventh Straight Year

UNESCO's 2026 Global Education Monitoring Report — the first in a new Countdown to 2030 series — finds 273 million children and youth were …

EduFabTech · 5d ago · 4 min read
More Than 25 Countries Sign UNESCO's AI-in-Education Statement, But Guidance Still Lags Behind Classroom Use
🎓 Education Breaking Report

More Than 25 Countries Sign UNESCO's AI-in-Education Statement, But Guidance Still Lags Behind Classroom Use

At UNESCO's Digital Learning Week 2026 in Paris, more than 25 education ministers signed a non-binding statement on AI in schools. UNESCO's…

EduFabTech · 13 Sep 2026 · 4 min read