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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 few in the five-year secondary school.
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Country facts of Grenada, including geography profile, population statistics, and business data.
There is a lack of premises, which often leads to
overcrowded classrooms and a messy study environment.
From the mid-2010s, the Government, with the support of
a multimillion loan from the Caribbean Development Bank
(CDB), has begun work on renovating school buildings and
building a few new schools and in other ways also tried
to improve the quality of education.
A structural problem is that the education that young
people receive is not properly adapted to the needs of
the labor market. This has meant that many of those who
get a higher education find it difficult to get jobs
that match their skills.
In the capital Saint George's there is an
American-owned university, St George's University, with,
among other things, medical education. Saint George's
also has a technical vocational school, a teacher's
college and a higher education in agriculture and
fishing. The University of the West Indies, a
collaboration between English-speaking Commonwealth
countries and territories in the Caribbean, has a branch
in the capital. However, many grenadies apply to
Jamaica, the United States and the United Kingdom for
university studies.
FACTS - EDUCATION
Proportion of children starting primary
school
95.2 percent (2016)
Number of pupils per teacher in primary
school
16 (2017)
Reading and writing skills
98.6 percent (2014)
Public expenditure on education as a
percentage of GDP
42.8 percent (2016)
Public expenditure on education as a
percentage of the state budget
42.8 percent (2016)
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