Educational achievement in social and international contexts

Benő, Csapó; Tóth, Edit; Kinyó, László; Fejes, Balázs József

Educational achievement in social and international contexts

Hungary has participated in international educational surveys from the very beginning in the 1970s, and so changes in educational achievement may be analysed over several decades. In this chapter, we first review changes in educational outcomes and compare them to results from other countries. In the second part, we explore data that indicate crucial educational issues in the social context, highlighting the weak contribution that education makes to reducing social inequalities and improving the job-market prospects of children in disadvantaged social groups.