It's got the lowest education attainments in our country and it's got the highest unemployment in our country and funnily enough, for the last eight years it's had a government, in large measure, dominated by the Greens," he said.
"Professor Achebe remains in President Jonathan's consideration a national icon, a Nigerian of high attainments, indeed one of the greatest living Africans of our time".
In middle-school attendance, China lags behind the attainments of some newly developed economies when they were at similar levels of development.
But the educational attainments of the locals are much worse than those of the new arrivals.
It's also worth paying attention to the excellent work of Claudia Goldin and Lawrence Katz, who have traced recent growth in wage inequality to a divergence in the relative supply of workers of various educational attainments:Skill-biased technological change has generated rapid secular growth in the relative demand for more-educated workers for at least the past century.
For is it not grating that the intellectual attainments necessary to design and hurl a satellite into geosynchronous orbit should in the end turn out to have been deployed to no greater humanitarian or cultural end than the broadcasting of a channel called WOWOW TV at a target audience of Japanese schoolchildren?
Instead they turn to demography:[T]he average educational attainments will increase.
It is just beginning to get the dividend from having an expanding working-age population.But these raw numbers do not take account of the educational attainments of the two countries.
A guidebook for economic heretics is the "Human Development Report", started by him in 1990 and published each year since.At its core is an index for human development devised by the ingenious Mr Haq which measures more subtly the attainments of nations than does gross national product, the familiar GNP.
Although the proportion of children attending school has grown over the past decade, the quality of their education has deteriorated.The chief problem is that children's educational attainments are falling, even as more money is being lavished on the schools.
But in 2000 they got a rude shock when an OECD study comparing children's educational attainments in a range of industrial countries revealed that although Swiss kids did well at maths, they were only middling at reading and science.
