Is the Investment Worth the Outcome?

The amount each of these five countries spends per pupil on their high school education isn’t cheap.The United States, Luxembourg, Austria, Switzerland and Norway have been ranked the top 5 spenders on the world in secondary education.Here they are in order from largest to smallest within the top 5.

However,when we look up the ranking of each of these countries in PISA (Program for International Student Assessment) index, we find some quite surprising results. Here are the top 5 countries in order of first to fifth.

Singapore
Hong Kong
Canada
Japan
China

Here are the rankings of the 5 top spenders

Luxemborg - 34th

Austria - 20th

Switzerland - 8th

Norway -19th

United States - 41st

Here are the spendings of the top 5 countries ranked in PISA

China - $1593
Japan - $8301
Canada- $11,835
Hong Kong - $8,247
Singapore - $7,200

This shows that spending isn’t really proportionate to the quality of education being imparted to young individuals.Maybe we should take a look at what's going on?

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