Are there any affirmative action or other policies aiming to reduce inequalities? (Such as tuition subsidies, grants, quotas, campaigns, etc.)
Affirmative actions should be understood as targeted temporary actions aiming to facilitate access, participation, and completion of marginalised groups that are underrepresented in different levels of education.
Reported incidents of racism or xenophobia or any type of discrimination or related intolerance against students from specific groups in school
This indicator measures the number of reported incidents of racism or xenophobia or any type of discrimination or related intolerance in school/educational institutions against students from specific groups during the last 12 months.
If the number of reported incidents is high, you should check whether it is because of a lack of appropriate legislation forbidding such incidents or whether it is because of the lack of enforcement of relevant legislation.
Specific groups include:
Children from Indigenous Peoples and Minority families.
Education expenditure ratio
General government expenditure on education (current, capital, and transfers) is expressed as a percentage of GDP. It includes expenditure funded by transfers from international sources to government. General government usually refers to local, regional and central governments (Source: UIS).
Does an independent body (eg parliamentary committee) monitor the budget?
Is there public access to key public financial documents related to education?
Key public financial documents include national and regional budgets, periodic reports on execution of the budgets, reports on distribution of resources by province or department
Current public expenditure per pupil as a percentage of GDP per capita
Current public expenditure per pupil at each level of education, expressed as a percentage of GDP per capita
Education budget execution rate
The education budget execution rate is the percentage of the approved budget for the education in the last fiscal year that was actually executed
Does the State have effective administrative complaint mechanism(s) to file complaints on violations of the right to education?
Complaint mechanisms may be set up within the Education Ministry and / or within non-judicial oversight institutions such as a human rights commission, the supreme audit institution, or an anti-corruption agency
Tertiary completion rate (first degree) (%)
Gross tertiary graduation ratio (only applicable for first degrees) is the total number of graduates in tertiary International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) 5A programmes expressed as a percentage of the total population of the age at which students theoretically finish their first degree programme, in a given country