ABSTRACT
It has been fifty years since the large wave of independence from colonialism washed across Africa and around the world. Intensified efforts to boost levels of education followed quickly in lower-income countries. The competition of the Cold War and the emerging focus on knowledge foundations of economies had similarly energizing effects in middle- and upper-income countries. Chapter 3, using data that have become increasingly available over the past five decades, sketched the rapidly unfolding and, in fact, accelerating transition in global education.
This chapter explores a dynamic base case forecast of the next fifty years of global education as it now appears to be unfolding.
