ecuador

[COUNTRY DETAILS] general enrollment ratio (GER): || 42% are enrolled in higher education.
 * population: || 14,573,101 population for 2009, according to US Census Bureau .  || [[image:ecuador.jpg caption="ecuador"]] ||
 * literacy: || 84.2% of adults and 95.4% of youth(15-24) are literate. ||^  ||
 * higher education

39% - m 45% - f

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: || 8% of government spending goes to education. Of that an unknown % goes to higher education. ||^  ||
 * number of universities/higher education institutions: || 70 universities and 300 higher institutes offer two to three years of post-secondary vocational or technical training.

15 out of 70 rank in the top 8,000 universities in the world. ||^  ||  1,840,678 Internet users as of Sept/2009, 12.6% of the population, according to Supertel. Internet Broadband Connections: 318,973 subscribers as of 2007, 1.73% of the population, according to ICT. ||^  || sources: @http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/ict/newslog/Ecuador+A+Million+Ecuadorians+Use+Web+Says+Regulator.aspx @http://www.internetworldstats.com/sa/ec.htm @http://stats.uis.unesco.org/unesco/TableViewer/document.aspx?ReportId=121&IF_Language=eng&BR_Country=2180&BR_Region=40520 @http://www.virtualcampuses.eu/index.php/Ecuador @http://www.webometrics.info/top100_continent.asp?cont=latin_america @http://www.webometrics.info/rank_by_country.asp?country=ec @http://www.virtualcampuses.eu/index.php/Universidad_T%C3%A9cnica_Particular_de_Loja http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecuador#Health_and_education
 * rank: || Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral is ranked 803in the world and 34th in Latin America. ||^  ||
 * access: || Internet Usage Statistics:
 * interesting: || * [|Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja] (UTP) formerly the [|Open University of Loja]. was created by presidential decree in 1971 and administered by the government until October 1997. Today, it is run by missionaries and views itself as 'an educational institution with a social purpose'. A non-profit organisation financed by the Ecuadorian State, it was a pioneer of distance learning in Latin America, with distance learning provision available since 1976. In 2005 they began a virtual learning environment and offer 30 courses online, 18 of them are graduate programs, the other 12 are postdgraduate programs with a total of more than 20,000 online student registrations.
 * Only 87% of the faculty in public universities have master's degrees, and fewer than 1% have doctorates (i.e. PhD, EdD). ||
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