Training The school system in Finland is similar to Swedish but has better results. Finland’s schools are among the best in the world. There is a voluntary one-year preschool for six-year-olds. The children start primary school at the age of seven. The nine-year compulsory school is compulsory and free of charge. After elementary school, 95 […]
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Fiji Education Facts
Training In Fiji, schooling is compulsory for eight years from the age of six. Then follows a voluntary stage of three years. Almost all children start primary school and four out of five continue to the secondary school. Almost all Fijians can read and write. However, poverty in rural areas means that some children there […]
Ethiopia Education Facts
Training The level of education is low in Ethiopia. Only half of the adults can read and write. Then, however, there has been a rapid improvement in recent years. The school system has been extensively expanded during the 2000s and 2010s and most children now attend school for at least a few years. State grants […]
Estonia Education Facts
Training The level of education in Estonia is high. The compulsory compulsory school lasts for nine years, from the age of seven, and almost all pupils go on to three-year high school or vocational school. There are Estonian and Russian language schools as well as mixed schools. Estonia is high in the international PISA measurements […]
Eritrea Education Facts
Training For Eritrean children, schooling must be compulsory and free of charge for seven years from the age of seven. In reality, one in five children is not even enrolled in school. Illiteracy is widespread, just over a quarter of the Eritrean over 15 years cannot read and write. Poverty is an important reason for […]
Equatorial Guinea Education Facts
Training School duty officially counts for children between six and eleven years. Almost all children start in the free elementary school, but demands for school uniforms and other surrounding costs mean that many families cannot afford to keep the children in school and the drop-offs are many. According to the UN agency Unesco, about a […]
El Salvador Education Facts
Training Children in El Salvador start their nine-year primary school at the age of seven. Almost all children go to the lower stages but many then drop out. The quality of education is often low. Formally, compulsory schooling applies to children from 1 to 15 years. Nevertheless, few in the lowest ages participate in any […]
Egypt Education Facts
Training Every fourth adult in Egypt lacks reading and writing skills according to official information. Nowadays, school is compulsory for nine years and most children go at least the first six-year stage. In Cairo, there is the large Islamic university al-Azhar, founded in 988. Just over one child of five goes to preschool from the […]
Ecuador Education Facts
Training In Ecuador, there is a nine-year compulsory schooling from the age of six. The proportion of children attending school has increased significantly in a couple of decades. Nowadays, almost all children in primary school start, although some then go on classes and one in ten will drop off completely before school is complete. Two […]
East Timor Education Facts
Training The educational level in East Timor is historically low. Only two out of three residents can read and write. Since independence in 2002, the country’s governments have invested considerable resources in trying to reduce the shortage of educated labor. During the Portuguese colonial era, the school system was severely neglected and as late as […]
Zimbabwe Education Facts
Training Large investments in education after independence in 1980 quickly produced results in a relatively well-educated population. The rapid decline in society after the turn of the millennium hit the school system hard, but now most children go to school again. Reading and writing skills are still high. The children must start school at the […]
Zambia Education Facts
Training The school system in Zambia has been greatly expanded since the country’s independence from the UK in 1964. However, the shortcomings are still large and many students skip studies already in primary school. At independence, three-quarters of men and almost all women were illiterate. According to the UN agency Unesco, just over 71 percent […]
Yemen Education Facts
Training Nine years of compulsory schooling prevail, on paper, in Yemen. But the school system is described by the United Nations Children’s Fund as one of the victims of the bitter war that has shaken Yemen in particular since 2015. Even before the war, the drop-out of the school had many and major gender differences. […]
Vietnam Education Facts
Training Compared to many other developing countries, Vietnam has a well-developed school system, with roots in Confucian educational tradition. The school is twelve years old, but compulsory schooling only prevails during the first five year stage. Almost all children start school at the age of six, but around a third do not lose the equivalent […]
Venezuela Education Facts
Training In Venezuela, large investments were made in the early 2000s in education, which led to an increase in the proportion of children attending school. However, the recent crisis in the country has led to a severe setback where many children no longer have any schooling at all. Formally, there is a compulsory schooling for […]
Iceland Education Facts
Training The compulsory school is ten years old and the compulsory schooling is compulsory from the age of 6 to 16. After primary school there are theoretical or vocational upper secondary education and special schools. Over 90 percent of students continue to study after primary school. COUNTRYAAH: Country facts of Iceland, including geography profile, population […]
Hungary Education Facts
Training Most students attend state schools, but there are also a small number of private schools run by religious communities. Hungary’s officially recognized minorities can be taught in their own language, but especially Roma are discriminated against in the school system. There is a compulsory school requirement for all children between the ages of 6 […]
Honduras Education Facts
Training Honduran children start school at the age of six. The nine-year compulsory school is compulsory and free of charge. Virtually all children start school and two out of three pupils choose to continue to the three-year high school, which is voluntary and free of charge. Honduras has many vocational schools with technical education. There […]
Haiti Education Facts
Training Haiti’s school system has major flaws, which is why only around three-fifths of the adult population is literate. In many places outside the cities there are no schools and children often stay at home when the six-year-old school starts at the age of six. The devastating earthquake in 2010 broke a large part of […]
Guyana Education Facts
Training Most children in Guyana attend preschool for at least a year. Normal school starts when the children are five to six years old and compulsory schooling rules for ten years. Although there is a certain dropout, most children attend school. The school is divided into a first six-year stage which is followed by first […]
Guinea-Bissau Education Facts
Training The children start the seven-year primary school at the age of six. After a military coup in 2012 (see Modern History), many schools were closed for almost a full year. Even then, many schools were closed due to lack of money and an acute and protracted political crisis (see Current policy). The crisis has […]
Guinea Education Facts
Training The level of education is low and the majority of Guineans cannot read and write. Illiteracy is higher among women than among men and has increased in recent years. There is a great lack of teachers and schools. About four children out of five children start their six-year primary school at the age of […]
Guatemala Education Facts
Training One of five Guatemalans cannot read and write. Illiteracy is particularly high among Mayan women in rural areas. In some parts of the country, three out of five women in this group are not literate. Although Guatemala has increased government spending on education since the mid-1990s, it still belongs to the Latin American countries […]
Grenada Education Facts
Training Schooling is compulsory and free of charge for children between the ages of 5 and 16 and virtually all children participate in the education. The education system is built on a British model. There are both state and private schools. There are most private schools in the lower seven-year primary school and only a […]
Greece Education Facts
Training The education sector was hit hard by the economic crisis in the 2010s. Government spending on the school was cut by about a third during the crisis years and the teachers’ stoppage of employment led to problems. As the economy has improved in recent years, the government has increased its efforts to strengthen teaching. […]
Ghana Education Facts
Training In Ghana, three out of ten residents are illiterate, in particular many women and older people are not literate. However, the Ghanaian government is investing heavily in raising the level of education in the country. The poorest areas, especially in the north, are subsidized by foreign aid to enable more children to attend school. […]
Uzbekistan Education Facts
Training The school system is structured as during the Soviet era (1924–1991), when Uzbekistan was known for a high level of education. After independence, state grants to the sector were cut, which led to lower quality of education. There is a great teacher shortage and the teaching material is outdated. The 11-year compulsory school is […]
Uruguay Education Facts
Training The general level of education in Uruguay is among the highest in Latin America. School compulsory school rules apply from the age of four and include 14 years, two of which are in preschool. School duty was extended in 2008, with a preschool year and three years of high school, and now belongs to […]
United States Education Facts
Training The states and local authorities are largely responsible for the school system in the United States. Only a small part is financed with federal funds. The quality of teaching varies greatly. Since property taxes are often an important local source of income, public schools can be excellent in affluent suburbs and poor in the […]
United Kingdom Education Facts
Training The choice of school and education is strongly related to the social class to which you belong. There are both state and private schools. A change that has occurred in recent years is that a number of new alternatives have emerged within the state system, which are partly financed by private actors. Compulsory school […]