An average of 48 per cent of young women and 32 per cent of young men in Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries will complete tertiary education in their lifetimes, according to the group's 2013 Education at a Glance report. The rate is less than 25 per cent for young people in Chile, Mexico, Saudi Arabia and Turkey, and 50 per cent or above for those in Australia, Denmark, Iceland, New Zealand, Poland and Britain.
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Adam Johnson will give a public lecture at City University on Friday under the school's Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing summer residency programme. The Stanford University professor and author of The Orphan Master's Son won this year's Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Last week, University of California, San Diego professor Rae Armantrout, who won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 2010, gave a lecture. Both will teach workshops and classes under the CityU programme.