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The tables below show GER for each country in Asia. It is organized into five regions of population: South Asia, East Asia, Southeast Asia, West Asia and Central Asia. Data is shown for four levels of education: pre-primary, primary, secondary and tertiary. (Tertiary education is also referred to as higher education).
Nigeria. In Nigeria, secondary school starts from JSS1 - grade 7 (age 12–13) until SSS3 - grade 12 (age 17–18). Most students start at the age of 10 or 11 and finish at 16 or 17. Grade 6 is mostly skipped, but those students who did grade 6 normally start grade 7 (JSS 1) at the age 11 or 12.
The system trained some 60 million mid-or high-level professionals and almost 400 million laborers to the junior or senior high school level. Today, 250 million Chinese get three levels of school education (elementary, junior, and senior high school), doubling the rate of increase in the rest of the world during the same period.
In recent years, many OECD countries (although not the United States) have begun to offer universal legal entitlements to early childhood education programs to all children for at least 1 or 2 years before the start of compulsory schooling. 7 As a result, on average, 82 percent of 3- and 4-year-olds were enrolled at any education level across OECD countries in 2020. 8, 9 In comparison, 54 ...
This study identifies two major themes of how internationalization of higher education is. discussed in East Asia. The first relates to how nation-states in East Asia position themselves globally. The three countries emphasize their global competitiveness as nation-states and their positions as.
After an overview, chapter 2 highlights the main features of education in Asia in an international and regional perspective. Chapter 3 provides more detailed documentation of education costs and financing arrangements in Asian countries, focusing on such items as the pattern and level of unit costs across levels of education, the distribution ...
This is a list of countries by the proportions of 25- to 64-year-olds having completed tertiary education as published by the OECD. It includes some non-OECD nations. Tertiary education is the educational level following the completion of a school providing a
The history of contemporary adult education in Japan stretches back to 1949 when the Act for Adult Education was enacted (Fuwa, 2001), aiming to contribute to the building of a democratic Japanese society and extending the 1947 Fundamental Law of Education (Gordon, 1998). The idea of lifelong education was not introduced in Japan