Changing the Trajectory: Education and Training for Youth in by Sajitha Bashir

By Sajitha Bashir

The Democratic Republic of Congo faces the problem of delivering common fundamental schooling and increasing possibilities for post-secondary schooling and coaching for its early life, a while 12 to 24. This research analyzes the present academic attainment and college enrollment prestige of teenage, in addition to the formal and casual post-secondary academic and coaching possibilities on hand to them. The research makes use of the result of a simulation version that includes enrollment in substitute education schemes and considers replacement eventualities for constructing the post-primary area. every one state of affairs is evaluated for the influence at the human capital accumulation of youth and the sustainability of public expenses. The file bargains coverage innovations for swiftly elevating the academic attainment of adolescents who can be getting into the exertions strength within the subsequent twenty years, together with increasing possibilities for replacement schooling and coaching for out-of-school youngsters, the extension of basic schooling, and the reorganization of secondary and technical/vocational education to minimize early specialization.

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Finally, the overall business environment does not reward entrepreneurs for expanding physical or human capital. Wages of workers in DRC, especially for unskilled workers, are significantly higher than in other SSA countries due to the higher cost of living. Strikingly, there is little difference between wages of skilled and unskilled workers. Professionals earn approximately only 50 percent more than skilled workers. This figure contrasts with a differential of 200–300 percent in the wages for the latter two groups in other SSA countries.

Failing this exam causes most students to repeat several times, leading to overcrowding in the classes of the final year of higher secondary. The selection mechanism and lack of alternatives to university education create an enormous cohort of students who are treated as not having completed secondary education and, hence, not having formal qualifications for the labor market. 8). In 2005 approximately 3,365 students drawn from a stratified national sample of 187 secondary schools were tested in mathematics and science.

8). In 2005 approximately 3,365 students drawn from a stratified national sample of 187 secondary schools were tested in mathematics and science. The sample schools consisted of 97 urban and 90 rural schools. There were 154 publicly financed schools (state schools and those managed by religious institutions) and 33 private unsubsidized schools in the sample. The tests comprised questions with multiple choice responses only, which meant that a certain number of correct responses could have been obtained due to chance alone.

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