Freedom of Education Index 2016:

Since 2013 the Novae Terrae Foundation has been collaborating with OIDEL, a NGO with consultative status to the UN, UNESCO and the Council of Europe, in order to elaborate a Global Independent Index on Freedom of Education (including the rights of parents). 

In September 2014 the Novae Terrae Foundation and OIDEL created a permanent group of international experts (Socrates Group), who periodically gather to analyze the problems and good practices regarding freedom of education and the protection of parents’ rights on education in diferent countries around the world. 

Starting from the provision of art. 13 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (Freedom of Education), the Global Index on Freedom of Education will include a set of data on international scale analyzing the protection and the promotion of this fundamental human right, as well as policies in support of freedom of education in the national context and at regional level. 

The Index is composed of: 

• freedom of choice for children’s education (constitutional and legislative provisions, public schools, homeschooling); 
• public support for freedom of education (family vouchers, direct support for schools, teachers’ wages, investment costs such as costs of structures and buildings etc.); 
• net Enrolment rate in primary education;
• the percentage of students enrolled in independent schools. 

The Global Index could be an important tool aimed at analyzing every two years the national political evolutions and the protection/promotion of the right to freedom of education at an international level.