Title: The structure of secondary education in developing countries
Abstract: This report describes the recent history of the size and structure of secondary education in developing World Bank countries. Enrollment and organizational data about secondary schooling in about 100 World Bank countries have been collected from several sources. The data reach back to 1960, a period before some of the largest recent growth in education among these countries, and extends until 1990. This thirty year period has witnessed growth in primary education in almost all countries of the world, including the least developed. For example, among the countries studied in this report, on average over 85 percent of eligible children were enrolled in primary school. This educational expansion has prepared large cohorts of students for available secondary education opportunities. The period between 1960 and 1990 represents for many World Bank countries a shift from primary to secondary expansion. It is thus the crucial period to study educational subsector development among developing countries. Before the results section of this report, there is a brief description of data sources and analysis techniques. Then the results are broken down into three main sections of size of secondary enrollments, structure of secondary schooling, and selected relationships among them. In each section, historical trends, gender, and regional variations and other related topics are examined.
Publication Year: 1996
Publication Date: 1996-10-31
Language: en
Type: article
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