nearly all students continue learning in upper secondary education beyond compulsory education all of this is accomplished in a schooling system that provides wide autonomy to school leaders and teachers and it is achieved on comparatively modest levels of spending continuing declines in the size of the schoolage population challenge authorities to efficiently manage the nation s school network the nation s capacity to replenish its teaching workforce is hampered by unattractive conditions of employment an unclear vision of what good teaching practices are and what sort of training can best promote good teaching