Environmental sustainability is among the top three megatrends for education and training policy makers in 2024
Fostering environmental sustainability is a priority for education ministries compared to other global megatrends
Ensuring environmental sustainability is expected to become more important in the future, with room to do more
Among accelerated longer-term evolutions, digitalisation and equity will remain key
Automation and AI are expected to affect professions differently
Among shock-related megatrends, economic recovery and global health will remain key
Economic recovery risks facing some bottlenecks due to lower productivity and incentives, with increased disadvantage
Education systems tend to value learner-centred priorities and prioritise, with a focus on school-aged learners in the transition towards greener and fairer societies
How education systems refer to education policies that support green objectives
Fewer education systems prioritise learner-centred efforts for the transition to greener and fairer societies
Education priorities for the transition to greener and fairer societies differ by policy area and education level
A minority of 15-year-olds in the OECD are environmentally active, including in countries where the climate risk to children is highest
Among higher education institutions (HEIs), momentum to reduce emissions is falling
Few education systems prioritise providing learners with practical experiences for the transition to greener and fairer societies compared to adapting the curriculum
Empowering all learners to shape the green economy is a priority for education systems, notably within school education
Green jobs are distributed unevenly between regions in OECD countries
Teachers are making greater use of some active pedagogies than others
Few teachers take part in professional learning activities involving partners beyond the education sector
There is room to strengthen principals’ collaborations
Perceptions of education ministries of collaborations to a great extent with other actors for the transition to greener and fairer societies (2023)
Making the education sector more important in the transition towards greener and fairer societies (2024-28)
Strategic measures in place for defining education’s role in the transition to greener and fairer societies (2023)
System-level strategies specifically for environmental and sustainability education appear key driving instruments across participating education systems
Beyond education-specific actors, the ministries of environment are seen as particularly strong collaborators of education ministries compared to other actors (2023)
Education ministries’ collaboration with other actors tends to decrease past the development process (By type of actor, 2023)
Education ministries’ collaboration with other actors tends to decrease past the development process (By country or economy, 2023)
Climate change appears a topic of relatively broader collaboration between the education sector and other actors, compared to other topics (2023)
Education ministries wish to enhance collaboration with other actors
Comparing current and further desired collaboration on aspects related to the transition to greener and fairer societies (2023)
High-level backing and institutional capacity are among the top factors to enhance the role of the education sector