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ECUADOR: Educational profile

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General Information

Demographic &

Economic information

Socio Cultural information

Structure of education: Improvements,

Challenges & reforms.

General Information.-

• Location and area (283,560 km2).

• Major physical features.

• Demographic situation• Total population (14,306,876)

• Annual growth rate (1,4%) – 2010

• Density: 48,7 km2.

Demographic situation

• Urban 65%, Rural population 35%

Economic Situation

• GDP per capita: 1772 (2009) 15% growth since 2005.

• Annual inflation rate: 4,30% (2010)

• Unemployment rate: 8,50%

• National currency: US dollars

Socio cultural situation

• Illiteracy rate: Male 92%, female 91% (2010)

• Infant mortality rate: 20 per 1,000 live births (2010)

• Life expectancy: 75 years (2010)

• Oficial language: Spanish & quechua. Others.

• Principal religions: Roman Catholic 95%, others 5% (Protestants, baptists, mormons, Jehova witnesses, ect.)

Structure of the education system

Expenditure on education as percentage of GDP: 3,9%. (2015 goal is to achieve 6%).

Levels.-• Preprimary • Primary (1st to 7th)• Secondary (8th to 10th) (Specialized –Bachillerato)• Higher education (University)


Curriculum development.-

• The National Plan for Environmental Education

• National Health Education Plan

• Institutionalization of sex education

• School for parents

• International Baccalaureate Organization


Coverage of School Age Population


% Growth enrollment (2005-2009)

• Pre-Primary: 7,18%

• Primary: 1,03%

• High/Secondary: 24,18%

• Tertiary: 20% (2007 to 2008)

Teacher training

Encourage entry into teacher training studies, improving their initial training, the offer of its work conditions, quality of life and the perception of the community of its role.• Permanent professional training & development.

• Review curriculums for training.

• Salary policies

DINAMEP


Teacher deployment situation


Efficiency in primary education

Average promotion Rate: 55%

Average Repetition Rate: 5%

Average Drop out rate: 45%


Text book production and distribution

Quality free text books corresponding the policy of universalization of basic education (10 years). 2'348.427 students have been benefited.

Literacy programs for adults have distributed a quantity of 2,003,000 text books.


Special programs for disadvantaged and poor

a. National Plan for Education Inclusion

b. Escuelas unidocentes (one teacher schools)

c. The national council of rural education promotes two projects:• Oriented to social and productive development

• The communitarian curriculum for general basic education.


Efforts for education for all programs

a. Incentives for voluntary retirement for teachers and termination of night school teachers.

b. Breaking down items and allotments to teachers in rural, border and marginal areas.

c. Incorporation of new teachers (Evaluation system and training).

d. Free text books and elimination of fees.

e. Making the first year of Basic General Education (“BGE”) universal.


Inspection and supervision services for quality improvement

• Provincial Council of education. (primary and secondary).

• SENECYT (Tertiary education). Acreditation of Universities.

Examination systems

• National testing system (Tests aprendo)

• Measurement of academic achievements

• Testing institutional work and evaluation of teaching performance.


Issues and problems of education

• Acces to education in rural areas.

• Extreme poverty

• High girls dropout in schools

• Lack of access to schools

• Corruption in education


Some educational reforms.- LOES, Oct. 2010

• Number of credits per degree.

• Full time professors.

• Testing Systems.

• Elimination of diplomas as postgraduate degrees.

• Testing Systems.

• 60% of professor will be full time in a period of two years.

Free text books

Retirement of teachers

Public Students

Adult students

Infraestructure