The Education Policy Outlook, the OECD’s analytical observatory of education policy, is a collaborative effort between OECD countries and economies, the OECD Secretariat, and invited organisations, as well as all actors working within participating education systems, to help students achieve their potential.
This report was prepared by the Education Policy Outlook Team (Diana Toledo Figueroa [Project Leader], Christa Rawkins, Emily Qing, and Hugo Marques de Sousa). It was prepared under the responsibility of Paulo Santiago, Head of the Policy Advice and Implementation Division, and Andreas Schleicher, Director for Education and Skills and Special Advisor on Education Policy to the OECD Secretary-General. The team also benefitted from exchanges and feedback from colleagues at different stages of the report: Etienne Albiser, Luka Boeskens, Eric Charbonnier, Esther Ferreira dos Santos, Lawrence Houldsworth, Jonathan James, Stéphanie Jamet, Leila Loupis, Jan Maarse, Tali Malkin, Katharina Meyer, Jason McGrath, Anna Pons, Nóra Revai, Simon Roy, Claire Shewbridge, Karine Tremblay, and Samo Varsik. Ameline Besin provided editorial and administrative support, with communications input from Sasha Ramirez-Hughes, Duncan Crawford, Eda Cabbar, Rachel Linden, Kevin Gillespie, Anna Wahlgren, Kristen Hinkle and Della Shin.
The preparation of this report was possible thanks to the work undertaken by the Education Policy Outlook in its three strands of work – comparative and thematic analysis, country-based work (mainly through the preparation of country policy profiles) and policy dialogue. These act as building blocks to develop, strengthen, and mobilise international knowledge of education policy. The OECD Secretariat is thankful to its EPO National Coordinators and key actors’ representative bodies at the OECD – including the Trade Union Advisory Committee (TUAC) and Business at OECD (BIAC) – for their valuable input during the project’s activities, which have informed the preparation of this publication.
Grounded on extensive research and data analysis, the Education Policy Outlook comparative reports provide evidence-based insights into international education policy. From 2023, the Education Policy Outlook also supports countries to follow up on the goals established by the 2022 Declaration on Building Equitable Societies Through Education. As part of this support, this report continues the Education Policy Outlook’s work on responsiveness and resilience since 2020 and provides insights relevant to education actors in 2024 based on priority areas of the Framework of Responsiveness and Resilience in Education Policy. The report presents insights from international comparative analysis of relevant and promising policy efforts adopted by participating countries in recent years, predominantly since 2020, to support a quality teaching profession.
The report also builds on education system’s responses to the Education Policy Outlook National Survey for Comparative Policy Analysis 2024: Reshaping Teaching Into a Thriving Profession (from ABCS to AI), collected mainly between April and May 2024. The 33 education systems participating in this survey are: Austria; the Flemish, French, and German-speaking Communities of Belgium; Brazil; Chile; Colombia; Croatia; Czechia; England (United Kingdom); Finland; France; Germany; Greece; Hungary; Iceland; Ireland; Japan; Kazakhstan; Korea; Latvia; Lithuania; Luxembourg; Mexico; Norway; Peru; Poland; Portugal; Romania; Slovenia; Spain; the Netherlands; and Türkiye. Information for other education systems was collected through other Education Policy Outlook activities.
This report was launched at the Education Policy Reform Dialogues 2024: Reshaping Teaching into a Thriving Profession from ABCS to AI, co-hosted with the Ministry of Science, Education and Youth of Croatia in Zagreb on 25-26 November 2024. The Education Policy Reform Dialogues, organised annually since 2018, are the leading OECD forum on education policy. Outcomes of the discussions inform the future work of the OECD on education and skills, including the Education Policy Outlook.