G.E.R.E.S.E (eds.) (2003)
L'équité des systèmes éducatifs européens: un ensemble d'indicateurs
Liège : Université de Liège
GERESE : Groupe Européen de Recherche sur l’Equité des Systèmes Educatifs
"Equity of the European Educational Systems. A Set of Indicators" is the result of collaboration
between six European university teams, and was carried out as part of the Socrates 6.1.2. programme,
with the support of the European Commission.
The project is intended to measure and compare the equity of the education systems in the
European Union Member States. Thanks to it, decision-makers and users will be informed of
the equity of the existing systems. This informative tool may help decision-makers to redefine
the educational politics.
This publication reports on a work over a period of two years on the issue of the equity of
educational systems. It is structured into three main sections:
A first part, entitled “Devising indicators of equity of educational systems: why and how ?”,
defines the concepts of equality and equity, and presents the framework of indicators and its
guiding principles.
The second part, “A set of indicators on the equity of the educational system”, presents the
twenty-nine indicators built in the context of this project, and organized according to the
framework.
The third part, “The equity of European educational systems. An interpretation of the 29 indicators”,
presents an analytical interpretation of the equity indicators.