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Education in Mexico

FROM THE ARCHIVES
Privatization of Latin American Higher Education Reflects Worldwide Trend of Collapse of Public Monopoly in Education (Winter 1993)

Education in Mexico

By Kevin Rolwing

Mexico’s education system and its evolution over the last half-century can be characterized by one defining feature: its expansive growth. From 1950 to 2000, total student enrollments in the formal education system — primary school through graduate studies — increased more than eightfold from 3.25 million students in 1950 to 28.22 million students in 2000. Secondary school enrollments in the public sector rose from 1.4 million in 1972 to 5.4 million in 2000. [Continued]

FROM THE ARCHIVES
Privatization of Latin American Higher Education Reflects Worldwide Trend of Collapse of Public Monopoly in Education (Winter 1993)

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LIBYA: Academic Exchanges with U.S. Reopened After Quarter-Century Hiatus The U.S. State Department’s decision in May to re-establish diplomatic ties with Libya includes a decision to reopen academic ties under the Fulbright Foreign Student Program.   Approximately ten scholarships are expected to be awarded to students wishing to embark on two-year graduate programs starting in the fall of 2007. More than 3,000 Libyan students were studying in the United States in the early 1980s before its alleged ties to terrorist groups, and subsequent ostracism by Western governments, caused that number to drop to close to none. [Continued ... read full story in the Middle East section.]

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