bolivia

[COUNTRY DETAILS] general enrollment ratio (GRE): || 38% are enrolled in higher education.
 * population: || //9,775,246// - 2009 Source: according to US Census Bureau. || [[image:bolivia.gif caption="bolivia"]] ||
 * literacy: || 90.7% of adults and 99.4% of youth(15-24) are literate. ||^  ||
 * higher education

GER is the number of pupils enrolled in a given level of education regardless of age expressed as a percentage of the population in the theoretical age group for that level of education.

Under [|UNESCO] standards, Bolivia has been declared free of illiteracy in 2008. ||^  ||
 * spending on education: || 18.1% of government spending goes to education. Of that 23% goes to higher education. ||^  ||
 * number of universities/higher education institutions: || 40 total institutions including profession and vocational tertiary institutions.

9 out of 40 rank in the top 8,000 universities in the world. ||^  ||  1,050,000 Internet users as of Dec/08, 10.7% of the population, according to ITU. Internet Broadband Connections: 65,600 broadband subscribers as of Dec/08, of the population, according to ITU. ||^  || sources:@http://stats.uis.unesco.org/unesco/TableViewer/document.aspx?ReportId=121&IF_Language=eng&BR_Country=680&BR_Region=40520 @http://www.webometrics.info/university_by_country.asp?country=bo @http://www.webometrics.info/rank_by_country.asp?country=bo @http://www.internetworldstats.com/sa/bo.htm []
 * rank: || Universidad Mayor de San Simón is ranked 2749 in the world. ||^  ||
 * access: || Internet Usage Statistics:
 * interesting: || * Bolivia is the poorest country in South America, has the largest population of indigenous peoples and elected its first president of indigenous decent, Evo Morales, in 2005.
 * In August 2008, the Bolivian president ordered the creation of three indigenous universities where the degree programs will be given in native languages such as Aymara, Quechua, and Guarani.
 *  [|the Centro Boliviano para Estudios Multidisciplinarios (CEBEM)] in Bolivia,  with strong Canadian involvement, including CERLAC's, are coordinating a group of Canadian and Latin American universities, research centers and non-governmental organizations in an experiment that seeks to combine information and communication technologies with online pedagogy to stimulate information sharing, mutual learning and collaborative knowledge creation across the North-South and academic-practitioner divide. ||
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