Enrolment in educational programmes for professional upgrading is not regulated.

During the 2003 2004 school year, the net primary enrolment rate was 94.4 per cent, while the completion rate rose to 99.82 per cent.

Education was a critical tool and leaders of the region were striving to provide universal access to all levels of education and to upgrade educational standards.

The percentage of female enrolment in the various stages of education has also increased over the past two decades to include all levels of education.

Secondary 47.9 46.0 35.2 28.3 12.8 18.5 4.0 7.0 0.1 0.3

Professional qualifications of a teacher are upgraded through self education and at establishments that implement respective programmes of further education.

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

Primary 17.1 17.6 18.8 12.2 37.0 42.9 25.2 26.0 1.9 1.3

Completed primary

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

Environmental education to be included in all education levels

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.

369. Although promotion from basic to secondary education is subject to a national examination, advancement from one year to the next within each cycle depends on the marks obtained during the school year.

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.

Of these, 328 are following a programme at ISCED level 2 96 individuals are attempting to improve their educational status by following a programme at ISCED level 6 or 7.

Female enrolment in higher (post secondary) education rose successively from 6 per cent in 1972 to 15.6 per cent in 1989 and 23.7 per cent in 1990.

ii. Higher education (Higher Professional Education (HBO) and Universities)

Co education is generally allowed up to primary education level (up to grade V).

Complete primary

Complete secondary

Complete primary

H VWO higher general secondary education university preparatory education

Until 1990 all possibilities for upgrading teachers' qualifications were provided by a single centralised institution supervised by the Ministry of Education and Science.

The participation of women in secondary education had increased from 33 to 37 , and as far as university education is concerned, the percentage of women had increased from 31 to 37 .

EPI middle level professional education

EPI middle level professional education

Incomplete primary

Incomplete secondary

None primary

Incomplete primary

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

Secondary education is available to the General Certificate of Education A level.

The Compulsory Basic Education Act had increased the duration of basic education from five to eight years.

Basic education services, as well as federalized upper secondary and vocational education, have been added to the services catering for the same levels previously existing in the states themselves.

Secretary of the Higher Council of Education, Libyan Ministry of Education, 1966 1967

226. As regards levels of instruction, there is no great difference between men and women at the same level, although there is considerable disparity between primary and secondary levels throughout the country.

Primary education was mandatory and education was the task of the State and territorial communities, which must provide accessible free education for all.

Administrative Framework The administrative framework consists of the Ministry of Education at the federal level and Education Departments in the provinces.

XI. Primary education

The secondary level has four grades of compulsory basic education (sixth to ninth) and two grades of secondary education (tenth and eleventh).

One project we have is an education programme that addresses the concerns of rural girls' education by providing free primary education, and encouraging higher education.

In St. Kitts and Nevis, primary and secondary education are compulsory and free.

Higher education starts after the baccalaureate and comprises three levels higher technical, also known as associate vocational, the bachelor's degree and postgraduate.

Health and education services had been upgraded life expectancy had risen and the number of women in the workforce had doubled.

It is accepted that the National Institute for Educational Development is currently integrating population and family life education, including sexual education, into the primary and secondary school curriculum.