higher general secondary education (HAVO)

beginning vocational, secondary vocational, higher vocational education

pre school education, primary education, secondary education, higher education.

Education ensuring universal primary, expanded secondary and higher education

H VWO higher general secondary education university preparatory education

The provincial education departments are responsible for primary, secondary and higher secondary schools in the respective provinces.

Initiatives in Public Private Partnerships such as school up gradation program in the afternoons has resulted in a higher coverage for girls at middle, secondary and higher secondary levels.

Higher vocational education in the country is performed on the basis of general secondary, beginning vocational and secondary vocational education, and colleges of higher vocational schools and in State institutions of higher vocational education, including private institutions.

There has been an exponential growth in secondary, higher and university education.

The drop out rate of boys from basic schools and upper secondary schools is higher.

Secondary vocational training institutions in the 2003 2004 school year numbered 50, and higher learning institutions, 38.

That difference is, however, much more emphasized as far as secondary and higher than high education are concerned.

The difference in higher education enrolments can be explained by military service for men right after secondary school.

The State is improving education processes both in general education institutions and in secondary vocational and higher learning institutions.

The share of women in the overall unemployment figures is over half for those with secondary, higher and university degrees.

MAVO junior general secondary education VBO pre vocational education HAVO senior general secondary education (MAVO, VBO and HAVO have since been abolished and replaced by new, modified types of education) VWO pre university education, MBO secondary vocational education, HBO higher professional education, WO university.

Post secondary education (middle level professional education (MBO), higher level professional education and university) for the over 15 18s, subdivided into

There appears to be a trend towards ethnic minority children staying in education longer far more are going on from secondary to higher education than in the past, especially to higher professional education.

The retention index at the secondary level is higher for females (93.6 per cent) than it is for males (90.1 per cent).

Some 60 per cent of secondary school graduates enrol in higher education, but only 37 per cent manage to complete this level.

It is calculated that, out of the total population, men present three fifths to three quarters of adults with secondary or higher education.

However, at secondary and higher education level some additional subjects are offered to females are such as Home Economics, because of greater demand.

In rural communities, there are further complications when adolescents leave the village or agrarian community to seek secondary or higher education in the city.

c) in 1991, only 30 of women in BiH achieved secondary education, while the percentage of men was significantly higher and amounted to 49 .

The portion of women in the total number of unemployed is more than 50 as far as secondary, higher, and high education are concerned.

Children whose mothers have secondary or higher education suffer less underweight or low height, compared with children whose mothers have elementary or no education.

The picture repeats itself again in secondary education, with the particularity that the recap indexes are higher 46,5 for youngsters and 53.5 among girls.

In secondary education, the enrolment rate for girls is slightly higher than the rate for boys, but access for both groups is very limited.

In Republika Srpska, the following laws have been adopted the Law on Primary School, the Law on Secondary School, and the Law on Higher Education.

The expenditures related to students' transport are also higher because the network of secondary schools is not so developed as the network of primary schools.

Women are in the majority at intermediate and higher general secondary education level evening classes, while men are in the majority on technical courses (Figure 56).

The draft Law on Higher Education is currently under preparation, while the Entities and Brčko District have adopted the following laws Law on Pre Primary Education, Law on Primary Education, Law on Secondary Education and Law on Higher Education.

The percentage of women with secondary and higher education had increased in the period from 1981 to 1991, but these percentages are still lower than those regarding men.

The government is implementing scholarship programmes for girls from rural areas in order to encourage their attendance in senior grades of secondary school and in higher learning institutions.

Forty per cent of the migrant female EAP of rural origin has secondary education or higher, as against only 18 per cent of the non migrant female EAP.

Boasting universal literacy and 100 per cent official enrolment, the DPRK has successfully established an extensive primary and secondary school system as well as institutions for higher learning.

These and other problems result in high dropout rates among indigenous children, especially girls, and a progressive decrease in the number of indigenous students in secondary and higher education.

Secondary schools in the Brčko District have been described as follows grammar schools, secondary technical and related schools, secondary vocational schools, and the possibility was left open for establishing a secondary religious school, mixed secondary schools, art schools, and a secondary school for children who are developmentally impaired.

Children of the insured are also insured from 15 to 26 years of age if they are regular students in secondary or higher education, i.e. during the period of regular schooling.

Measures have been undertaken to increase the number of girls admitted to higher and secondary vocational training institutions for the specialties of information science and electronics, economics and finance, and law.

If poverty reduction policies are to have a long term impact, progress in primary education is not sufficient efforts must also be augmented in the areas of secondary and higher education.

It therefore urges countries to ensure the widest and earliest possible access of girls and women to secondary and higher levels of education, as well as to vocational education and technical training.

Secondary Bundle

Secondary sector

Secondary schools