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- Education_in_Barbados abstract "Education in Barbados is based primarily on the British model. There are presently:1 infant school,4 public nursery schools,71 public primary schools,2 assisted special schools,20 registered private schools,23 public secondary schools,7 assisted private secondary schools,3 tertiary-level institutionsUWI Cave HillBarbados Community College (BCC)The Samuel Jackman Prescod Polytechnic (SJPP)1 teachers' training institution1 central administrative agency2 departments, namelyAudio Visual Aids and School Meals DepartmentThe Education Project Implementation UnitIn addition, there is 1 public senior schoolAcademic Term The Barbadian school year is fashioned after the British system, and as such, it follows a scheduling with three terms per school year.The first term begins the second week of September and continues for 15 weeks adjourning in mid-December excluding one week for Mid Term Break in Mid-October. The second Term begins on the first week of January and continues for 12 weeks ending the end of March. The final Third Term begins mid-April and continues for 11 weeks until the end of June. The School Holiday period is 9 to 10 weeks long from the end of June until the first week of September. Education is provided free of charge and is compulsory between the ages of 5 and 16, and attendance is strictly enforced. In 1991, the gross primary enrollment rate was 90.4 percent.It was reported that Barbados has spent roughly US$15 billion on Education since Independence in 1966. In 2006 during the inaugural Cecil F. deCaires Memorial Lecture at the Frank Collymore Hall, the former Central Bank Governor Sir Courtney Blackman remarked that between 1966 and 2000 successive Governments (of Barbados) had spent US$15 billion on education costs – "a remarkable investment for such a small state".In 2009, Ronald Jones as the Minister of Education and Human Resource Development said the Barbados government spent $290 million to upgrade the schools with information technology. Given this Jones said the ministry would be entering a grading processes for schools on their usage of the technology using a scale of 1 to 6.".
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- Education_in_Barbados agency "'''Ministry of Ed., Youth Affairs".
- Education_in_Barbados attainPostSecondary "n/a".
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- Education_in_Barbados budget "BDS$500 million".
- Education_in_Barbados budgetYear "2008".
- Education_in_Barbados countryName "Barbados".
- Education_in_Barbados enrollPostSecondary "11459".
- Education_in_Barbados enrollPrimary "28000".
- Education_in_Barbados enrollSecondary "22000".
- Education_in_Barbados enrollTotal "59500".
- Education_in_Barbados establishedDates "1890".
- Education_in_Barbados establishedEvents "Compulsory education".
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- Education_in_Barbados leaderNames "Hon. Ronald D. Jones MP".
- Education_in_Barbados leaderTitles "Min. of Education & Human Resource Dev.".
- Education_in_Barbados literacyMen "99.7".
- Education_in_Barbados literacyTotal "99.7".
- Education_in_Barbados literacyWomen "99.7".
- Education_in_Barbados literacyYear "2002".
- Education_in_Barbados primaryLanguages English_language_in_England.
- Education_in_Barbados systemType "National".
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