DefinitionProcess of being fair to men and women. To ensure fairness, measures must often be put in place to compensate for the historical and social disadvantages that prevent women and men from...
DefinitionPurely a numerical concept. Reaching gender parity in education implies that the same proportion of boys and girls - relative to their respective age groups - would enter the education...
DefinitionEducation that is designed to develop learners’ general knowledge, skills and competencies and literacy and numeracy skills, often to prepare students for more advanced educational...
DefinitionPrivate institution that receives at least 50% of its core funding from government agencies. Institutions should also be classified as government dependent if their teaching personnel are...
DefinitionSpecific stage of instruction in initial education usually covered during an academic year. Students in the same grade are usually of similar age. This is also referred to as a ‘class’, ‘...
DefinitionNumber of graduates from first degree tertiary programmes (at ISCED level 6 and 7) expressed as a percentage of the population of the theoretical graduation age of the most common first...
DefinitionSum of gross value added by all resident producers in the economy, including distributive trades and transport, plus any product taxes and minus any subsidies not included in the value of...
