D02L06 D Pavlovic - Educational Outcomes and Policies in Serbia: From Present Achievement to Goals

EDUCATIONAL OUTCOMES IN SERBIA: FROM PRESENT ACHIEVEMENT TO THE GOALS
Dragica Pavlović Babić
Institute of Psychology, Faculty of Philosoph y
Belgrade
Niš, EBES 2010

LOW EDUCATIONAL LEVEL OF POPULATION
23,9% older than 1 5 years have only a primary school
21,9% older than 1 5 years have not completed primary school
4,6% have completed high education
Even worse in vulnerable groups
R esult
Untapped human capital ,
Heavy employability and
Huge spendings for social programs

THE FIRST ISSUE: EFFICACY
Financing education – how much and how to spend?
About 4% or less of GDP , and new members of EU about 5%
Teachers’ salaries in primary education: Serbia about 96% of the budget, EU -15 about 73% of the budget
School network – obsolete, do not follow demographic trends
Number of students is reducing (6%) and number
of teacher is growing (5%)
Rising number of private lessons

THE SECOND ISSUE: EQUITY
Drop out from all levels of education
Preschool education’ coverage - less than 40% of children
Primary school, at the end: 95% of pupils finish the primary school
Secondary school coverage (at age 15-18 years) approximately 76.42%

WHAT IS MOST WORTH IT?

THE THIRD ISSUE: QUALITY
In recent years the quality of education declines
International testing
Lower achievement for 60-70 points in math and science literacy in relation to the OECD average, 100 points for reading literacy
According to EU criteria, 40-50% of our students would be rated as functionally illiterate
Our education system fails to prepare half of the children for life in the EU.

Graphic 1: SCIENCE LITERACY: achievement levels Level Student can tipically do: 6 707.9
identify the scientific components of many complex life situations
Compare, select and evaluate appropriate scientific evidence
use well-developed inquiry abilities, bring critical insights to situations
Evaluation 5 633.3 4 558.7
select and intgrate explanations from different disciplines of science and technology
can select facts and knowledge to expalain phenomena
interpret and use scientific concepts frpm different disciplines and can apply them directly
Integration 3 484.1 2 409.5
are capable of direct reasoning and making literal interpretations of the results
have a limited scientific knowledge that it can only be applied to a few, familiar situations
Reproduction 1 334.9 % of students by achievement levels 1 <1 2 3 1 2 3 4 <1 4 5 5 i 6 6

Graphic 2: SCIENCE LITERACY: average achievement

LISBON AGENDA – EU 2020.
Common goals at the level of EU member states by 2020 :
New goals for education and training until 2020: Less than 15% of fifteen years old students have low achievement in reading, mathematics and science (goal is changed from 20% to 15% and besides reading, achievements are measured in science and mathematics) At least 95% of children aged 4 years should be included in the pre-school education At least 15% of adults should participate in lifelong learning (previously formulated goal is 12.5%) At least 40% of persons 30-34 years of age should have higher education Percentage of those who drop out of school should be less than 10%.

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