GUIDE OF SÉDHIOU - Cesie

EDUCATION
Introduction to the educational system
Senegal has taken the French educational system. It includes:
Kindergarten (3 years), elementary school (5 years), collège or
secondary school or first cycle (7 years) and secondary or
second cycle (3 years). This last phase is otherwise known, in
Senegal, as lyceum.
In Senegal in 2005, in accordance with the latest data
available, the admission rate in the first year of primary school
(CI) was 91.5%, the gross enrollment ratio (GER) was 82.5%,
the proportion of
girls in education
was 48.6% and the
success rate was
53.9%. Although
these figures are
improving, they are
rather disappointing
compared to the
objectives of the
current plan for the
development, the
Ten-Year Education and Training (PDEF). The issue of universal
access to primary education is currently being resolved in
Senegal. Unfortunately, retention is not improving as fast as
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