1. Education Level of Target Group (18-35 years old)
360 Degrees project

2. Spanish education system
Upper Secondary
16-18 years old
Pre-Primary
3-6 years old
Primary
6-12 years old
Lower Secondary
12-16 years old
Tertiary
18 and above years old

3. Current Educational Trends
Today our young adults have a higher level of education and are staying in school longer than the older generations.
Young adults who attained tertiary education in 2010.

4. current educational trends
Sixty four % of year olds have completed at least upper secondary education compared to 35% of year olds with the same education level.
About 40% have a higher educational level than their parents.
Population that has attained at least upper secondary education,
by age group and gender (2011)

5. Educational Trends
According to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Spain’s 18 to 35 years olds compare to the rest of the OECD countries.

6. Compared to OECD Countries
Adult Educational Level (2014)

7. Educational advances
In Spain, the children of low-educated parents have greater access to tertiary education than children of low-educated parents in other OECD countries.
About one-third of year-old tertiary students have parents with below upper secondary education.

8. Benefits for our citizens
The difference in income between adults with upper secondary education and those with tertiary education widened considerably, from 37% in 2005 to 41% in 2011.
Employment rates, by educational attainment (2011)

9. Benefits for our citizens
The largest proportion of unemployed people are those with the lowest proficiency in literacy (who also have low educational attainment.
Reading Performance (2012)

10. Compared to other OECD Countries
Mathematics Performance (2012)
Science Performance (2012)

11. Benefits as a country Greater tax revenues and social contributions
The proportion of adults who report that they believe they have a say in government increases by 10 percentage points when comparing those with below upper secondary education (19%) with those with tertiary education (30%).

12. References http://www.oecd.org/edu/Spain-EAG2014-Country-Note.pdf