a great number of states have paid attention to achievement gap across hundreds of criteria including demographics, access to language and economic resources and race around the world: notably in the united kingdom, france, south africa as named in one comparative analysis. unesco has held strongly in its principles the importance on aspects of educational equity, and other educational movements similar to that of the united states word gap are numerous throughout europe and some other members of unesco. europe also has its own varied standards on the ideas of multilingual competence per state, which stress the apprehension and exposure to secondary language vocabulary in students of all ages.