paraguay

[COUNTRY DETAILS] general enrollment ratio (GER): || 26% are enrolled in higher education.
 * population: || 6,995,655 population for 2009, according to US Census Bureau .  || [[image:paragu.gif caption="paraguay"]] ||
 * literacy: || 94.6% of adults and 98.8% of youth(15-24) are literate. ||^  ||
 * higher education

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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. ||^  ||
 * spending on education: || 11.9% of government spending goes to education. Of that 18% goes to higher education. ||^  ||
 * number of universities/higher education institutions: || 40 total institutions including profession and vocational tertiary institutions.

3 out of 40 rank in the top 8,000 universities in the world. ||^  ||  984,200 Internet users as of September/2009, 12.8% of the population, according to ITU.
 * rank: || Universidad Nacional de Asunción is ranked 2586 in the world and 174th in Latin America. ||^  ||
 * access: || Internet Usage Statistics:

Internet Broadband Connections: 130,000 Internet users as of 2009, 2.1% of the population, according to ITU. ||^  || DL students take their final exams in the university. There are several tools and methods to keep in touch with instructors: e-mail, telephone, post, chat, and e-campus. sources: http://www.internetworldstats.com/sa/py.htm https://www.budde.com.au/Research/Paraguay-Telecoms-Mobile-and-Broadband.html http://stats.uis.unesco.org/unesco/TableViewer/document.aspx?ReportId=121&IF_Language=eng&BR_Country=6000&BR_Region=40520 http://www.webometrics.info/university_by_country.asp?country=py http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_Paraguay http://www.webometrics.info/top200_latinamerica.asp?offset=150 http://www.webometrics.info/rank_by_country.asp?country=py http://www.virtualcampuses.eu/index.php/Universidad_Aut%C3%B3noma_de_Asunci%C3%B3n
 * interesting: || * 94% of the population mobile phones, giving Paraguay the highest mobile ratio in Latin America.
 * Wikipedia notes that "According to the United States government, Paraguay does not have an adequate university system".
 * //The Autonomous University of Asunción// (Universidad Autónoma de Asunción, UAA) was funded in 1978 as a college of business management, but in 1991 attained the title of University. They offer 4 bachelor programs through distance learning: management, accounting, IT sciences, and law. It is first university in Paraguay to offer distance learning.
 * Historically, Paraguay has not valued education highly. Paraguayan children spend far less time in school than in most other South American countries. ||
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