The UK is crumbling international classification of graduation rates and now sends a smaller proportion of young people leaving school at the University of the Slovak Republic, Ireland and Portugal, according to a major study of global education.

In the last seven years graduation rates have stagnated at 39% and has leap-frogged the other 11 countries, the OECD study comparing the educational systems of developed countries found.

The UK has a higher rate of young people leaving education, employment or training of most OECD countries, except Italy, Mexico and Turkey. This leaves young people in Britain more vulnerable to the effects of the recession.

A ten-year increase spending on schools in the United Kingdom, the growing number of graduates and improvements in pre-school teacher available now in danger of being eclipsed by other countries that have copied the educational policies of the United Kingdom . If the investment is reduced by the contraction of public spending in the UK will lose its historic leadership position in the world, the report warns.

Andreas Schleicher, author of the annual education report from the OECD, said that in 2000 the UK has one of the most dynamic education systems, but now risks being left behind. “Now there are many countries that have accelerated more and are going through the UK,” he said.

The report compares OECD countries – including the UK, USA, France, Japan, Germany and Turkey – according to its investment in education and reap rewards for people to stay in school and study more beyond the age of 18.

It also concluded that that:

• Class sizes in the state funded primary in the United Kingdom are higher than all other OECD countries plus Turkey and Japan, with about 26 children per class on average,

• Class sizes in private schools in the UK are half the size of those in the state sector

• Teachers’ starting salaries in England are above average in primary schools, but below average in secondary

• The UK spends 5.5% of GDP on education – above average for schools, but below the average for universities

• 30% of people who begin in higher education fail to complete their course – something the authors blame low completion rates in vocational courses rather than traditional titles

• On average in OECD men with degrees can expect to earn a lifetime award from $ 186,000 (£ 112,914) compared to $ 134,000 (£ 81,346) for women

People who have a degree are more likely to have a job, earn more and enjoy better health, the agency said. Schleicher said the report was a warning to governments and youth in the recession that the price of not getting a good grade on the rise. The report is based on data from 2007, before the global economic slowdown began.

“People who are left out will pay higher prices than in the past. The competition for jobs is increasing and this is a warning that this could worsen. The penalty for leaving is bound to rise further ‘ he said. He added that “makes sense” to expand the universities during a downturn in students taking more and empower people in recovery. This summer the government level student numbers despite an increase in requests for check up to 60,000 well-qualified applicants turned away.

But the report also suggests that demand for graduates had fallen. Since 1998, the proportion of youth with a degree in the job has slipped by 3 percentage points. Schleicher said there was no way of knowing whether this was due to over supply of graduates, or the changing labor market.

Christine Blower, general secretary of the National Union of Teachers, said: “If the government considers the reversal of the hard-won gains in education spending will return to the UK to be massively disadvantaged when it comes to the level of skills and knowledge needed to compete globally. ”

Michael Gove, shadow schools secretary, said: “The OECD study confirms once more that as a country we are falling behind our international competitors.

David Lammy, higher education and skills minister, said there were no more students than ever before in the UK universities. “We remain committed to ensuring that no young are left behind in these difficult times,” he said.

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Graduation is an exciting time in your life, and like most exciting times, it’s bound to be accompanied by a fair amount of awkward moments. While it’s sure to be an unpredictable few days, we can absolutely guarantee that a few things will definitely happen:

1. One of Your Relatives Will Say Something Racist, Then Make an Apology That’s Even More Racist

Most relatives are like Will Smith movies: You see them once a year and they preach to you for two hours about something anyone with half of a brain already knows. Unfortunately, there’s always one relative whose world-view is a little behind the times, and when you’ve come to greet your family after graduation with some of your friends, they’ll say something like, “We couldn’t find you down there, then I saw that you were behind that big chinaman. There’s so many of them! It’s like they’re takin’ over!” Then, the Chinese family behind you will all turn their heads toward your family, causing your relative to say something like, “Nah, I mean takin’ over in a good way, y’know, ’cause they’re good at math and science and laundry and stuff.”

2. Someone in the Crowd Will Have a Dumbass Sign

Graduations are like WWE events; There’s a bunch of people grabbing a mic and talking, and everyone in the stands is holding up a sign that only makes sense to the four people they’re sitting next to that helped them make it. Usually it takes six people standing up to display the sign, and since they’re never sure when you’re coming on stage, and every graduate is dressed the same, they end up getting up and sitting down like they’re club goers at the jersey shore, and someone stepped on their shoe, then quickly apologized.

3. You Will Be Annoyed By Drunken Graduate Sorority Girls

Remember that group of loud, obnoxious sorority girls that ruin every college bar you’ve ever gone to by getting too drunk and talking loudly about how everyone else isn’t attractive enough to talk to them? Well somehow, they got to graduate too, and you’d better believe that they’re showing up completely plastered. They’re easy to spot, thanks to the hodgepodge of inside jokes puffy-painted onto their graduation caps and accessorized with all sorts of annoying, attention-grabbing glitter and pipe-cleaners and shit that only a drunken idiot would find cool. If you happen to have the misfortune of being blind, and your echo-location skills don’t work in the crowded graduation hall, just listen for the high-pitched squeals of mindless whores stumbling over each other, and screaming incessantly to one another about how “their graduation robes are so much hotter than everyone else’s.”

4. Someone You Don’t Really Know Will Introduce You To Their Parents

Remember that kid that you sat two seats down from in your Space Sciences class during the second semester of your freshman year? Of course you don’t, but guess what? He remembers you, and he can’t wait for you to meet his parents. Having your family visit for your graduation is a lot like finding a dead squirrel in your car engine: it’s really not a good thing at all, but you still feel obligated to show it to everyone that you come into contact with for a short time thereafter. The best thing to do when introduced to someone’s family is to smile, be cordial, and get the encounter over with as quickly as possible. Also, for some reason there’s about a sixty percent chance that the kid in your Space Sciences class is named “Kevin.” I don’t know why, but it’s true.

5. There Will Be A Large Applause for a Handicapped Graduate

No matter who they are, or what they did, every time a person in a wheel chair, or with a clear physical disability, receives their diploma, the crowd reacts like that person just sank a three-pointer at the buzzer in game 7 of the NBA finals. This is great, because if there’s one thing handicapped people like, it’s people applauding them solely because they’re handicapped. To really hammer home the point, the audience is tired from loudly applauding, so the next person who gets up, also graduating with the same degree, gets a reaction like it’s the ninth inning of a 12-2 Florida Marlin’s game and someone got a bunt single.

6. Someone On a Cell Phone Will Try to Tell Someone Else Where They Are

No matter how loud, or how large a crowd you’re in, inevitably, there’s someone next to you on a cell phone attempting to shout instructions on how to locate them like it’s the fucking climactic scene of National Treasure and if they’re not found within seconds, a lever will be pulled and they’ll sink into the earth, never to be found again. The worst part is, their instructions usually consist of giving non-descript clues like they’re playing a game of charades and they want people to guess “Chairman of the federal reserve”: “I’m sitting next to a bunch of people in suits…a guy next to me has brown hair…um…I’m waving?!”

7. The Keynote Speaker Will Make a Horrible Analogy

The odds are pretty good that your graduation’s keynote speaker is going to be some obscure author or incompetent politician who has absolutely no way of relating to an audience of bushy-tailed, optimistic young adults. In order to compensate for this, the keynote speaker will make an attempt at an analogy of some sort, to try to bridge the gap between what they know and what it’s like to graduate right now. It’s impossible to tell exactly what type of analogy it will be, but there is one thing that you can be absolutely sure of: it’s going to be terrible. Don’t be surprised to hear something like this:

“In 1885, a whale hunting ship got stranded in the polar ice caps. In the dark of the arctic night, they found themselves hopelessly lodged in 30-foot deep glaciers. Despair was all around them, and within weeks, they were starving. Eventually, the whalers began eating one another, until one last, gluttonous sailor remained. He froze to death several days after, because, after consuming his fellow crewmen, he was now too fat to drag himself off of the deck of the ship. But what happened to the whales that the crew was hunting? Those whales survived. Just like you’ll survive…as college graduates.”

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