INDICATOR A1: To what level have adults studied? -- INDICATOR A2: How Many Students8196;Finish8196;Secondary Educationand Access Tertiary Education ? -- INDICATOR A3: How many students finish tertiary education? -- INDICATOR A4: What is the profile o f 15-year-old8196;top performers in science? -- INDICATOR A5: What8197;are the top performers attitudes and motivations for8196;science in8196;PISA 2006? -- INDICATOR A6: How does participation in education affect participation in the labour market? -- INDICATOR A7: What are the economic benefits of education? -- INDICATOR A8: What are the incentives to invest in education? -- INDICATOR A9: What are the social outcomes of education ? -- Chapter B 8211; Financial and Human Resources Invested In Education -- Classification of educational expenditure -- INDICATOR B1: How much is spent per student? -- INDICATOR B2: What proportion of national wealth is spent on education? -- INDICATOR B3: How much public and private investment is there in education? -- INDICATOR B4: What is the total public spending on education? -- INDICATOR B5: How much do tertiary students pay and what public subsidies do they receive? -- INDICATOR B6: On what resources and services is education funding spent? -- INDICATOR B7: Which factors influence the level of expenditure? -- Chapter C 8211; Access to Education, Participation and Progression -- INDICATOR C1: Who participates in education? -- INDICATOR C2: Who studies abroad and where? -- INDICATOR C3: How successful are students in moving from education to work? -- Chapter D 8211; The Learning Environment and Organisation of Schools -- INDICATOR D1: How much time do students spend in the classroom? -- INDICATOR D2: What is the student-teacher ratio and how big are classes? -- INDICATOR D3: How much are teachers paid? -- INDICATOR D4: How much time do teachers spend teaching? -- INDICATOR D5: How much appraisal and feedback do teachers receive, and what is the impact? -- INDICATOR D6: How do teacher practices, beliefs and attitudes measure up? -- Annex 1 8211; Characteristics of Educational Systems -- Annex 2 8211; Reference Statistics -- Annex 3 8211; Sources, Methods and Technical Notes -- References -- Contributors to this Publication -- Related OECD Publications

Across OECD countries, governments are seeking policies to make education more effective while searching for additional resources to meet the increasing demand for education. The 2009 edition of "Education at a Glance: OECD Indicators" enables countries to see themselves in the light of other countries' performance. It provides a rich, comparable and up-to-date array of indicators on the performance of education systems and represents the consensus of professional thinking on how to measure the current state of education internationally. The indicators look at who participates in education, what is spent on it, how education systems operate and the results achieved. The latter includes indicators on a wide range of outcomes, from comparisons of students' performance in key subject areas to the impact of education on earnings and on adults' chances of employment.