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How is the educational system in Colombia?
Very competitive!
In Medellin, forty per cent of the city’s budget is invested in education and the results are already being seen: the city has the highest percentage of primary public education of the country.
Education in Colombia includes formal and nonformal education. Formal education is composed of nursery, elementary, high school, technical instruction and college education. The basic goal expected for the average citizen is 11 grades (elementary school and mid highschool). The coverage of basic education for the state institutions is about 50%. The private institutions cover the other 50% and most of the technical and university formation, due to the scarcity of public resources destined to education.
Nursery School
Most of the children under 5 years are provided with daycare and nursery school in "Hogares Comunitarios" (community homes) sponsored by the National Institute for Family Welfare (ICBF acronym in Spanish), where mothers from the community take care of their own children, and the children from the immediate neighborhood. When the children learn to read and write, they usually are transferred to an elementary school. There are also a large number of private kindergrten facilities, but most of the times the high fees are very restrictive to the average family.
Elementary Schools
Elementary school last five years and is meant to provide the basic skills to achieve non qualified jobs. Primary education is free and compulsory for nine years for children between 6 and 12 years of age. The net primary enrollment (percentage of relevant age group) in 2001 was 86.7 percent. The completion rate (percentage of age group) for children attending elementary school (primaria) in 2001 totaled 89.5 percent. In many rural areas, teachers are poorly qualified, and only five years of primary school are offered.
Due to the insufficiency of the existing institutions to accomplish the full coverage of the child population, the public educative system has adopted the "automatic promotion" as standard practice, meaning that the children are promoted to the next grade no matter the achievement of goals, with the purpose to avoid extra years of occupancy in the educational institutions.
High school
Secondary education is divided in basic secondary (grades 6th to 9th) and mid secondary (grades 10th and 11th). Net secondary enrollment in 2001 was 53.5 percent. School life expectancy in 2001 was 11.1 years.
In order to access college or technical education, high school students must take the state test pruebas de estado.
Non formal education
Non-formal education is regimented by law 1064 of 2020 and the 2020 decree of 2006. The non-formal education does not provide a degree, but provides skills and talents to improve the level of subsistence. It includes the education provided by the enterprises to their employees. The Colombian government promotes this kind of education as an alternative for the university education, which is not accessible for the majority. Some institutions that provide these services are : SENA (national service of learning); CESDE; ANDAP; INCAP; ASENOF among others.
Non profit organizations working to fill the education gap in Colombia
There are hundreds of well run non profits (NGO's) in Colombia that are helping to close the education gap. To support their efforts, the Colombian diaspora has begun to organize and channel resources to them from the United States. One of the largest examples is the Genesis Foundation.
This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License <http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html>. It uses material from the wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_Colombia as well as other sources of information.
MTG Note: What we find utterly astonishing is the number of college students that begin their daily classes at 6:30 AM and many do not finish until 10:00PM at night. Much of this is done to accommodate people with jobs but a large number of students taking these early and late classes are merely full time college students.
Can you imaging a student in the US taking a morning class that begins at 6:30AM?? We couldn't either!
Very competitive!
In Medellin, forty per cent of the city’s budget is invested in education and the results are already being seen: the city has the highest percentage of primary public education of the country.
Education in Colombia includes formal and nonformal education. Formal education is composed of nursery, elementary, high school, technical instruction and college education. The basic goal expected for the average citizen is 11 grades (elementary school and mid highschool). The coverage of basic education for the state institutions is about 50%. The private institutions cover the other 50% and most of the technical and university formation, due to the scarcity of public resources destined to education.
Nursery School
Most of the children under 5 years are provided with daycare and nursery school in "Hogares Comunitarios" (community homes) sponsored by the National Institute for Family Welfare (ICBF acronym in Spanish), where mothers from the community take care of their own children, and the children from the immediate neighborhood. When the children learn to read and write, they usually are transferred to an elementary school. There are also a large number of private kindergrten facilities, but most of the times the high fees are very restrictive to the average family.
Elementary Schools
Elementary school last five years and is meant to provide the basic skills to achieve non qualified jobs. Primary education is free and compulsory for nine years for children between 6 and 12 years of age. The net primary enrollment (percentage of relevant age group) in 2001 was 86.7 percent. The completion rate (percentage of age group) for children attending elementary school (primaria) in 2001 totaled 89.5 percent. In many rural areas, teachers are poorly qualified, and only five years of primary school are offered.
Due to the insufficiency of the existing institutions to accomplish the full coverage of the child population, the public educative system has adopted the "automatic promotion" as standard practice, meaning that the children are promoted to the next grade no matter the achievement of goals, with the purpose to avoid extra years of occupancy in the educational institutions.
High school
Secondary education is divided in basic secondary (grades 6th to 9th) and mid secondary (grades 10th and 11th). Net secondary enrollment in 2001 was 53.5 percent. School life expectancy in 2001 was 11.1 years.
In order to access college or technical education, high school students must take the state test pruebas de estado.
Non formal education
Non-formal education is regimented by law 1064 of 2020 and the 2020 decree of 2006. The non-formal education does not provide a degree, but provides skills and talents to improve the level of subsistence. It includes the education provided by the enterprises to their employees. The Colombian government promotes this kind of education as an alternative for the university education, which is not accessible for the majority. Some institutions that provide these services are : SENA (national service of learning); CESDE; ANDAP; INCAP; ASENOF among others.
Non profit organizations working to fill the education gap in Colombia
There are hundreds of well run non profits (NGO's) in Colombia that are helping to close the education gap. To support their efforts, the Colombian diaspora has begun to organize and channel resources to them from the United States. One of the largest examples is the Genesis Foundation.
This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License <http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html>. It uses material from the wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_Colombia as well as other sources of information.
MTG Note: What we find utterly astonishing is the number of college students that begin their daily classes at 6:30 AM and many do not finish until 10:00PM at night. Much of this is done to accommodate people with jobs but a large number of students taking these early and late classes are merely full time college students.
Can you imaging a student in the US taking a morning class that begins at 6:30AM?? We couldn't either!
Students lining up at 6:30 AM to register at the Poly Technical University. It was a mad dash to the admissions office to form another line. The lines were still full at 2:30 PM.
