It is carried out in grammar schools, art schools, vocational schools, military and religious schools.

Special schools

School health education

In some of them the curricula consists of special educational programmes in others it follows the regular general education plans and programmes.

119. Elementary and preparatory schooling.

As a rule, German is the language of instruction at schools offering general education, at vocational schools and at universities.

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

University and college education Total with completed education

The primary education being provided may be full time, parallel, or schools for children who are developmentally impaired.

The curriculum for the compulsory school is the responsibility of the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture.

The scholastic standards are high.

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Beginning vocational education is made available to citizens in keeping with their interests, wishes and capabilities on the basis of basic and general secondary education provided in vocational lycées, vocational schools, special vocational schools and training complexes, centres and other educational institutions equivalent to them.

Private schools also generally have coeducation.

Promote health education in community child care centres and in nursery schools and pre school and school facilities concerning the growth and healthy development of Panamanian children

General education schools in rural areas

In secondary vocational institutions (training schools, technical schools and colleges, and other educational institutions equivalent to them), citizens may obtain a specialty on the basis of general basic, general secondary and beginning vocational education.

(Educational programs and special education services are also provided through schools.

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This conditioning took place in particular in the family and, above all, in the schools.

Special general education schools, boarding schools, and special classes are being created for children and teenagers who have physical and mental disabilities and who cannot attend conventional general education schools.

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

12. In educational terms, instruction in minority schools is designed both as bilingual and monolingual instruction.

In the area of education, there is opposition to the presence of Blacks at some institutions, even public ones.

The Ministry of Education should ensure that schools include accurate and objective sexual education in their curricula.

In the field of arts education, it has a system of 29 schools ranging from basic to higher education.

Human rights education in the school system

Sex education is included in school curricula.

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Promote health education in community child care centres and in nursery schools and pre school and school facilities on the care, growth and healthy development of Panamanian children

And then AIDS education in all schools, starting from university.

The distribution of students of general education day schools by level of education and of students of higher education institutions is given in Table 4.

The state exercises direct oversight and provides funding for vocational schools, establishments of secondary vocational education, special schools as well as programmes of national education, special education and educational programmes of social correction.

In the academic year 2003 2004 there were 627 full time educational institutions providing general education, 38 educational institutions providing evening courses or distance learning, and 71 educational institutions providing vocational, higher vocational or specialised secondary education.

Minorities can establish their own schools these include schools providing a general education but in addition offering religious instruction for Christian pupils (subject to parental agreement) and instruction in ethics for non Christians, and also religious establishments such as seminaries providing religious instruction.

General secondary education In accordance with the Law On General Education of 10 June 1999, there are the following establishments of general secondary education depending on the structure of the education establishment and the organisation of the study process secondary schools, shift schools, colleges.

There is also a large system of informal education in form of girls being taught at home by their elders and in mosque schools and seminaries.

Primary education is realized through primary schools, special primary schools for children with development problems, and departments for primary education of adults (after 16).

For example, in South Africa the Education Quality Improvement Partnership, which was initiated by the National Business Initiative, works with education ministries, individual school administrators, parent teacher associations and non governmental organizations to improve the quality of education in government schools.

The Aruban education system currently comprises the following levels of education and types of school

Peace education promoted as part of educational curriculum in schools. Notes

The drop out rate from general education schools has been fairly stable.

Only in theory. I intend to initiate a sexeducation course in the school.

6. Primary education is currently provided by a network of 64 public and nine private schools.

(ii) The child is in full time attendance at a school, university or similar educational institution