Expanding Opportunities and Building Competencies for Young People: A New Agenda for Secondary EducationWorld Bank Publications, 2005 M01 1 - 300 pages In a global development community where gains and successes are always hard-won, providing youngsters with a dynamic education that takes them from primary through secondary to tertiary education and beyond and that helps spur economic growth is surely one of the best investments a country can make, especially when it applies equally to girls and boys. The challenges facing developing countries and transition economies are twofold: to increase access to secondary schooling for all young people and, at the same time, to improve the quality and relevance of secondary education. These challenges must be met in the complicating but also potentially enabling environment of globalization and the technology-based knowledge society. Secondary education is the highway between primary schooling, tertiary education, and the labor market. Its ability to connect the different destinations and to take young people where they want to go in life is crucial. This highway can constrict the expansion of educational attainment and opportunity, or it can open up pathways for students' advancement. 'Expanding Opportunities and Building Competencies for Young People' explores the key issues facing secondary education in the 21st century. Based on surveys of education specialists around the world, the "tried and true" elements of the policy framework presented here will assist decisionmakers in developing countries and transition economies as they make plans to expand, reform, and transform their secondary education systems. |
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... vocational education in upper secondary school until per capita incomes reached about $8,000 (at the 1992 exchange rate) and then to shift to a more general curriculum. In some East Asian countries, however, even at lower incomes the ...
... vocational education in upper secondary school until per capita incomes reached about $8,000 (at the 1992 exchange rate) and then to shift to a more general curriculum. In some East Asian countries, however, even at lower incomes the ...
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... vocational schooling ) , students tend to take longer to graduate in order to acquire qualifications in both kinds of education . As demand for upper secondary education increases , a main policy challenge is to develop pathways that ...
... vocational schooling ) , students tend to take longer to graduate in order to acquire qualifications in both kinds of education . As demand for upper secondary education increases , a main policy challenge is to develop pathways that ...
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... Vocational education at the upper secondary level is not as well developed, signify- ing the blurring of the distinction between general secondary education and vocational education (see box 1.1). Specific skills tend to be acquired ...
... Vocational education at the upper secondary level is not as well developed, signify- ing the blurring of the distinction between general secondary education and vocational education (see box 1.1). Specific skills tend to be acquired ...
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... Vocational. Education. Over the past two decades, developed countries have been experimenting with more flexible educational pathways in upper secondary education in order to respond to the falling status of this level of schooling, to ...
... Vocational. Education. Over the past two decades, developed countries have been experimenting with more flexible educational pathways in upper secondary education in order to respond to the falling status of this level of schooling, to ...
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... vocational education and tertiary education and ensure that significant propor- tions of students take this pathway. 3. Design vocational education and training programs for less successful young people as an element of safety nets ...
... vocational education and tertiary education and ensure that significant propor- tions of students take this pathway. 3. Design vocational education and training programs for less successful young people as an element of safety nets ...
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Page 76 - That education should be regulated by law and should be an affair of state is not to be denied, but what should be the character of this public education, and how young persons should be educated, are questions which remain to be considered.
Page 76 - For mankind are by no means agreed about the things to be taught, whether we look to virtue or the best life. Neither is it clear whether education is more concerned with intellectual or with moral virtue. The existing practice is perplexing; no one knows on what principle we should proceed — should the useful in life, or should virtue, or should the higher knowledge, be the aim of our training; all three opinions have been entertained.
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