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SimuED (Simulation for Education) is UNESCO’s simulation model for facilitating and enhancing education sector planning. The Excel-based programme provides policymakers and planners with 165 calculation modules that they can adapt to simulate the development of an education system based on its context and features and shape the associated objectives, strategies, and policies. The modeling process is guided step-by-step by the programme, simplifying and expediting the model building and updating procedures. Since its first launch in 2019, it has been used in many countries.

To meet the ever-evolving challenges education policymakers and planner face in transforming education systems, SimuED continues to upgrade. The 5.0 version introduces 15 new modules and expands the capabilities of several existing ones. For example, 

• The distribution of students between public and private can now, in all Students modules, be determined according to a growth rate of private enrollment, freely determined or equal to the growth rate of GDP per capita.
• The new Students module, S31, makes it possible to transfer some students during the cycle rather than just at the end of it. This applies to both the students who have completed the cycle successfully and those who have failed it. Moreover, as compared to the previous version's limit of 5 courses, the students can be transferred to up to 25 courses now.
• With the new Personnel module, P41, the number of non-teaching staff in a course or entity (e.g., administration or inspection) can be projected against the total number of teachers or non-teaching staff in up to six other courses now.
• The Data sheet can now recognize and accommodate 25 distinct types of infrastructure, instead of 10 in the earlier versions. It is no longer required to use one module for each of them to compute their costs, because the new Costs module, C22, can process up to 12 of them at once, with separate parameters for each.

The 5.0 release also addresses a few minor issues and further enhances the programme interface and module layouts. SimuED currently only works on Windows. To learn more, download SimuED, or access resources such as the samples and the video tutorials, please send an email to SimuED@unesco.org