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Primary and Secondary Education
J.
I now turn to the school sector. It is true that
We
in the past decade we have concentrated mainly on providing
enough places. We felt this was the most urgent task.
therefore did all we could to increase places, not only by
building schools as fast as we could and training
training more
teachers, but also by such expedients as bišessional schools
and floating classes. The result has been a very
substantial improvement in the educational opportunities
our children and in their general level of
educational achievement. 10
thirds of years ago only two
open
to
our children were able to study beyond primary school in the
Six
public sector and only one in could go beyond Secondary,
Since the introduction of nine years free education in
21
cont
1978,
TV
on
almost 100 now complete Secondary 3; 70€ go to
Secondary or some form of technical education; and a third
are able to continue full time
continue full time education beyond
education beyond Secondary I.
The same point is made perhaps even more vividly by the
results of the recent by-census. The proportion of the
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er cent
but ranges from 16.7% for those over 55 to
to 95% for those
population with secondary education or above averages 56.6%
aged between 15 and 19.
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