Educational efficiency in Honduras, years 2006 and 2011

Abstract

The school-age population is the portion of the population comprising between five and seventeen years old and constantly demands quality educational services. To meet the demands of the school age population is necessary to examine the distribution of it by gender, age, residence and department, after this analysis we can say that the school-age population is distributed unevenly. Educational coverage has presented great achievements for people, whose ages correspond to the first two cycles of basic education, showing a decrease of coverage in the third cycle. Preschool education level had the most achievements from 2006-2011, due to the efforts for the universalization of this level. Investment in education has decreased, but this factor has not stopped remarkable achievements in coverage; in some departments, the amounts invested do not justify the declines in coverage. Given that social demands are growing and changing and that the school-age population is not expected to have changes it is expected that in 2021 the educational levels with the highest demand will be the middle and higher level of education. This condition must be considered directly in state planning of national education.