Eighty percent of the population is unbanked and enrollment in secondary and higher education lags well behind the rest of the world.
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More importantly, the finance minister has increased an across-the-board education tax from 2% to 3% to fund basic education and secondary and higher education.
These included encouraging more women into work, keeping tax rates low, luring foreign (notably American) direct investment and investing in secondary and higher education.
Highly anticipated by national education authorities, the workshop was closely followed by his excellence Youba Mamadou Diallo, Minister of Secondary and Higher Education and Scientific Research.
The two ministries are the Ministry of Basic Education, Literacy and the Promotion of National Languages and the Ministry of Secondary and Higher Education and Scientific Research.
In this regard, the President-elect said his government intends to ensure universal access to secondary and higher education, to democratize access to information technology and communication and to allocate at least 1% of Mexican GDP to the development of science and technology.
Women are succeeding (and in many cases outperforming men) in primary school, secondary school and higher education.
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We must get girls into school and make sure they stay the course, from primary through secondary and onto higher education.
But technology and innovation are only just beginning to take root in higher (and secondary) education.
In a joint response, the National Association of Head Teachers and the Secondary Heads Association said they supported ways of identifying potential for higher education in students whose backgrounds made them unlikely to do well at A-level.
That is true of a third of secondary schools and of the technical and vocational colleges attended by two-thirds of students in higher education.
Higher vocational education is a new post-secondary education form which leads directly to employment and corresponds to the needs of the labour market.
One of those opinions confirms the conventional wisdom that U.S. higher education, especially at our elite research universities, is world class while primary and secondary education, especially in our big city school systems, are lagging badly.
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"The project will significantly improve the performance of girls in science subjects, which will facilitate their access to secondary education (high school), " says Hassana Alidou, Chief of Section, Basic to Higher Education and Learning in UNESCO Dakar.
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