NewsWhore
12-27-2006, 04:30 PM
The Dominican Republic is the only country in Latin America that spends less than 2% of its Gross Domestic Product on education, according to the recently released UNESCO 2007 Education For All Global Monitoring Report. The DR's public investment in education is 1.2%. Uruguay and El Salvador are also at the bottom of the list with 2.3 and 2.9%.
In an editorial, Hoy questions the irony that the government invests so little in education while it preaches about turning the DR into a society of knowledge and reducing the digital gap.
Hoy also points out that another study recently found that the quality of education in the DR is low, primarily due to the few hours of classes and level of education programs in public schools. "That is, add to the low investment the bad quality of teaching and few hours of instruction," points out the newspaper.
See http://portal.unesco.org/education/en/ev.php... (http://portal.unesco.org/education/en/ev.php-URL_ID=49650&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html)
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#7)
In an editorial, Hoy questions the irony that the government invests so little in education while it preaches about turning the DR into a society of knowledge and reducing the digital gap.
Hoy also points out that another study recently found that the quality of education in the DR is low, primarily due to the few hours of classes and level of education programs in public schools. "That is, add to the low investment the bad quality of teaching and few hours of instruction," points out the newspaper.
See http://portal.unesco.org/education/en/ev.php... (http://portal.unesco.org/education/en/ev.php-URL_ID=49650&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html)
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#7)