Secondary Education
There are three years of lower-middle school. This type of education is provided through what is referred to as the "Coll'ege". After 9 years of basic education,students begin upper secondary school and take a 1-year common core curriculum, which is either in arts and science. First year students take arts and or science, mathematics or original education. Second year students take earth and life sciences, physics, agricultural science, technical studies or are in A or B mathematics track.
The gross enrollment rate at the secondary level in 2007 was 55.8 percent. But in secondary education the grade repetition and drop-out rates especially remain high. Also the gender parity index for GER for secondary was 0.86 in 2007; it is not better than other Arab countries and reflects considerable disparity in gender enrollment at the secondary level.
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