Primary schools upgraded to elementary level especially for girls in far flung areas and under developed districts.

) Primary education is obligatory and has a general educational character and serves as a basis for further education.

In December 2004, MEC launched a Preliminary Project for University Reform that governs higher level education in Brazil.

Primary 17.1 17.6 18.8 12.2 37.0 42.9 25.2 26.0 1.9 1.3

Completed primary

Emphasis on the right to and the quality of primary education

Primary education is compulsory and free.

Main educational indicators in indigenous primary education

BO primary

8.1.2 Primary education

Primary education curricula, teacher training and inspection of teachers

Basic education comprises three levels pre school, primary and secondary.

The distance from home to the educational institution remains a consideration from the primary level to the higher educational levels.

Both primary and secondary education are free of charge.

In accordance with the Satversme primary education is compulsory.

Education ensuring universal primary, expanded secondary and higher education

Educational establishments implementing programmes of primary education shall not organise entrance examinations for any of the grades of primary education.

In parallel with primary education, primary education in art music and ballet can be obtained.

Primary Bundle

1.2.1 Legal system

Intermediate secondary school education

Basic Primary Education

Complete primary

Complete primary

Recognizing that education contributed to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals, Fiji had made primary education compulsory and was taking steps to make secondary, vocational and higher education accessible to all.

Current educational system The Law On Education, currently in force, provides the following levels of education pre school education, primary education secondary education higher education.

A person is enrolled in programmes of secondary vocational education after the person has acquired general primary education or primary vocational education.

There is a need to make further efforts to ensure progress in the realization of the education related Millennium Development Goals, namely universal primary education and the elimination of gender disparity in primary and secondary education.

Another important step would be the provision of free, universal and compulsory primary education.

Article 3 of the Constitution establishes that pre school, primary and secondary education are compulsory.

In addition to those three types of education, the education system includes initial education, special education and adult education.

Elementary and preparatory schooling

(primary and secondary)

Incomplete primary

None primary

Incomplete primary

13. Calls upon States to recognize the right to education on the basis of equal opportunity by making primary education compulsory and ensuring that all children have access to free and relevant primary education, as well as by making secondary education generally available and accessible to all, and in particular by the progressive introduction of free education

17. Calls upon States to recognize the right to education on the basis of equal opportunity by making primary education compulsory and ensuring that all children have access to free and relevant primary education, as well as by making secondary education generally available and accessible to all, in particular by the progressive introduction of free education

In accordance with the Law On General Education of 10 June 1999, in Latvia primary education may be acquired at an educational establishment (an establishment of primary education, an establishment of secondary education, an establishment of vocational education or a special educational establishment shift school, a boarding school, an establishment or a class of social or pedagogical correction) where primary educational programmes are implemented.

The activity of primary education includes the upbringing and education of students of normal physical and mental development, and of students with disturbed psychological and or physical development, primary musical education, additional education of particularly gifted students, and primary education of adults (this is also the response to the fourth question).

The commonest levels are primary and, to a lesser extent, secondary.

Primary education In Latvia primary education or the acquisition of primary education by the age of 18 is compulsory.

(h) To ensure progressively and on the basis of equal opportunity that primary education is compulsory, accessible and available free to all

In Latvia, several independent pedagogical higher education establishments offer various programmes for the upgrading of the initial pedagogical education and qualifications.

Access to primary education