OECD (2000)

C3
Access to and Participation in Tertiary Education
Chart C3.3.
Index of change in the number of students
at the tertiary level between 1990 and 1997, and contribution
of demographic changes and changing enrolment rates to the change
in tertiary enrolment (1990 = 100)
Contribution of changing population size
Contribution of changing enrolment rate
Absolute change in tertiary enrolment
The absolute change in
tertiary enrolment since
1990 (diamonds) is a
result of changes in both
population size (light
bars) and enrolment
rates (dark bars).
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275
250
225
200
300
275
250
225
200
175
175
150
150
125
125
100
100
75
Portugal
Poland
Hungary
Turkey
United Kingdom
Czech Republic
Ireland
Korea
Sweden
New Zealand
Spain
Norway
Finland
Italy
Australia
Iceland
France
Mexico
Denmark
Austria
Canada
Switzerland
United States
Germany
Netherlands
75
Countries are ranked in descending order of the absolute change in enrolment. Data for 1990 and for 1997
follow the ISCED-76 definitions.
Source:
OECD. See Annex 3 for notes.
school expectancy. Germany and Switzerland, on the other hand, among the
countries with below average tertiary expectancy in 1990, fell further behind
and were in 1997 among the countries with the shortest tertiary expectancy
(Table C3.4).
The largest increases over the period 1990-97 occurred in the
Czech Republic, Ireland, Korea, Turkey and the United Kingdom, where there
was an increase of over 50 per cent, and in Hungary, Poland and Portugal,
where the number of tertiary students enrolled more than doubled.
The countries with the largest increase in the number of tertiary students
tend to be those that had relatively low levels of expectancy of tertiary education
in 1990, such as Hungary, Poland, Portugal, Turkey and the United Kingdom.
However some countries that already had high levels of tertiary educational
expectancy in 1990 also saw a significant increase: in Australia, Finland and
New Zealand tertiary education expectancy has increased since 1990 by about
a year.
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