Editing Tertiary education (section)

== Enrollment ==
[[File:Percentage of 25-29-year-olds who have completed at least four years of tertiary education, by wealth, selected countries, 2008-2014.svg|thumb|Percentage of 25-29-year-olds who have completed at least four years of tertiary education, by wealth, selected countries, 2008-2014]]
Globally, the gross [[Matriculation|enrollment]] ratio in tertiary [[education]] increased from 19% in 2000 to 38% in 2017, with the [[Female education|female]] enrollment ratio exceeding the male ratio by 4 percentage points.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|url=https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000370738|title=#CommitToEducation|publisher=UNESCO|year=2019|isbn=978-92-3-100336-3|access-date=7 February 2020|archive-date=11 February 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200211003256/https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark%3A/48223/pf0000370738|url-status=live}}</ref>

The tertiary gross enrollment ratio ranges from 9% in [[low-income countries]] to 77% in [[High income countries|high-income countries]], where, after rapid growth in the 2000s, reached a plateau in the 2010s.<ref name=":0" />

Between now and 2030, the biggest increase in tertiary enrollment ratios is expected in middle-income countries, where it will reach 52%. [[Sustainable Development Goal 4]] (SDG 4) commits countries to providing [[lifelong learning]] opportunities for all, including tertiary education.<ref name=":0" />

This commitment is monitored through the global indicator for target 4.3 in the sustainable development goal 4 (SDG 4), which measures the participation rate of [[youth]] and [[adult]]s in formal and non-formal education and training in the previous 12 months, whether for work or non-work purposes.<ref name=":0" />

The right of access to higher education is mentioned in a number of [[international human rights instruments]]. The UN [[International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights]] of 1966 declares, in Article 13, that "higher education shall be made equally accessible to all, on the basis of capacity, by every appropriate means, and in particular by the progressive introduction of free education".<ref>{{Cite wikisource|title=International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights|year=1966|anchor=Article 13}}</ref> In [[Europe]], Article 2 of the [[European Convention on Human Rights|First Protocol to the European Convention on Human Rights]], adopted in 1950, obliges all signatory parties to guarantee the [[right to education]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Protocol No. 1 to the Convention - Toolkit |url=https://www.coe.int/en/web/echr-toolkit/protocole-1 |access-date=2023-03-27 |website=[[Council of Europe]] |language=en-GB |archive-date=2023-03-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230327204051/https://www.coe.int/en/web/echr-toolkit/protocole-1 |url-status=live }}</ref>

University completion rates for students with disabilities are much lower compared to completion rates of students without disabilities.<ref>{{citation |last=Thompson |first=Stephen |year=2020 |title=Developing disability-inclusive higher education systems |work=International Higher Education |url=https://www.internationalhighereducation.net/api-v1/article/!/action/getPdfOfArticle/articleID/2813/productID/29/filename/article-id-2813.pdf |number=100 |access-date=22 April 2022 |archive-date=13 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220613202537/https://www.internationalhighereducation.net/api-v1/article/!/action/getPdfOfArticle/articleID/2813/productID/29/filename/article-id-2813.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>