10 interesting facts about education

Here are 10 interesting facts that you probably didn’t know about education.

1. There is a worldwide shortage of well-trained teachers. According to the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), 69 million teachers must be recruited to achieve universal primary and secondary education by 2030.
2. In many developing countries, people with just one additional year of schooling earn 10% higher wages.
3. Globally, there are around 60 million primary school-age children not enrolled in school. About half of them will never enter school.
4. Approximately 500 million women and 250 million men remain illiterate. Andorra, Finland, and Norway all have 100% literacy rates whilst South Sudan has just 27%.
5. The King’s School in Kent, England is the oldest continuously operating school in the world. It was founded in 597 AD.
6. The average age of teachers in Singapore is 36 years. In Italy, it’s 49
   years.
7. The City Montessori School in the Indian city of Lucknow is the world’s largest school. CMS has approximately 52,000 K-12 students spread across 18 campuses.
8. Many schools in Brazil begin their academic day at 7am.
9. Russian primary school students spend approximately 470 hours in the classroom during the school year which is about half the hours that US and Australian primary students spend in school.
10. Although no one really knows exactly, most estimates suggest that there are somewhere between 4 and 6 million schools in the world.