The key issues facing secondary education in the 21st century
Published by: World Bank , 2005
Via: Eldis
The purpose of this report is to set forth policy options for supporting developing countries and transition economies in adapting their secondary education systems to demands arising from the successful expansion of primary education and the socioeconomic challenges presented by globalisation and the knowledge-based economy. The report analyses the key issues facing secondary education in the 21st century and, on the basis of global experience, presents a policy framework to guide decision makers in their efforts to transform and expand secondary education systems. It focuses on the following six main messages:
- secondary education has taken on a mission of its own, one that has the policy peculiarities of being at the same time terminal and preparatory, compulsory and postcompulsory, uniform and diverse (chapters 1 and 2)
- expanding equitable access and improving quality to ensure relevance are the twin challenges of secondary education worldwide (chapters 3 and 4)
- in the context of the knowledge society, changing work patterns are leading to radically new approaches in the way curricular knowledge is selected, organised, and sequenced (chapter 5)
- qualified and motivated secondary school teachers are critical to the success of reforms of secondary education (chapter 6)
- multiple sources of funding and efficiency-enhancing measures should be considered to cover the significant financial investments required to expand access and improve the quality of secondary education (chapter 7)
- traditional modes of state intervention and public management strategies need to be reformed in order to promote delivery of high-quality secondary education services (chapter 8).
The report concludes by arguing that the task of expanding access and improving the quality of secondary education demands a radical transformation of policies and of institutional practice.
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