The views expressed within are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the World Bank or any of its affiliated organizations. Foreword O ver the last few decades, the importance of secondary education has changed radically. This holds true both for the opportunities this level of education offers to the individual student as well as the role it plays in the economic ...

The initial one-year education was extended gradually to present compulsory nine-year basic education. Children start schooling at the age of six with basic education (single structure of primary and lower secondary education). This is followed by two-, threeor fouryear middle (upper secondary) vocational, technical or general education. Then there are three universities for graduate and postgr...

BACKGROUND Education and health constitute two interlinked assets that are highly important to individuals. In Iceland, prevalence of dropout from secondary education poses a considerable problem. This 8-year prospective study assesses to what extent poor physical health and negative health-behaviors of Icelandic adolescents predict increased odds of dropout from secondary education. METHODS ...

In recent years, most countries in the Asia-Pacific region have made substantial progress toward the goal of universalizing primary education. Accordingly, more and more countries are now paying greater attention to the reorientation and expansion of their secondary education system. However, secondary education is a weak link in the education chain in many countries, even though an increasing ...

Electronic learning (e-learning) has gained reasonable acceptance from educational institutions at all levels. There are various studies conducted by researchers considering different aspects of e-learning to investigate how we can benefit in imparting quality education. However, there is a requirement to find out how researchers consider different sectors of secondary and higher education (HE)...

In this paper we describe an adaptive web application E-school, where students can adjust some features according to their preferences and learning style. This e-learning environment enables monitoring students progress, total time students have spent in the system, their activity on the forums, the overall achievements in lessons learned, tests performed and solutions to given projects. Person...