Upper secondary education (USE) is widely recognised as the minimum level of education necessary for success in life and work. As USE becomes near-universal, countries are faced with a number of policy questions:
The vulnerability of young people to the negative economic effects of the COVID pandemic make providing relevant and engaging USE pathways more critical than ever. The key policy issues that this project will examine are:
The project will produce original, comparative analysis on how countries can design and develop their upper secondary education systems to best meet student needs.
Specific outputs from the project will include:
Countries can participate in Above and Beyond by contacting us and sharing information about their challenges and policy initiatives. More formally, countries can undertake country reviews, join in peer-learning discussions and attend meetings of country representatives.
Peer learning is an essential component of this project, and the secretariat aims to facilitate knowledge sharing between countries. The OECD will invite countries to participate in each other's country reviews and provide opportunities for countries to present their practices to the larger community as part of meetings and other events.