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Ivory Coast
Index
Approximately 1.5 million pupils attended primary
school in
1987, representing about 75 percent of boys and 50 percent
of girls
below age fifteen. Primary-school enrollments increased at
a rate
of about 7.2 percent per year from 1960 to 1980, climbing
to 9.1
percent between 1976 and 1980. This rate slowed after
1980,
averaging 4.2 percent from 1981 to 1984 and 2.2 percent
after 1984.
Children entered primary school at the age of seven or
eight
and passed through six grades, divided into preparatory,
elementary, and intermediate levels. In the first six
months,
students mastered French, the language of instruction.
Classes in
reading, writing, and arithmetic were taught, gradually
supplemented by history, geography, natural sciences,
music, art,
and physical education. Rural schools also required
students to
work in school gardens and learn basic agricultural
methods.
Standard school-leaving exams led to the certificate of
elementary
education (certificat d'étude primaires
élémentaires--CEPE)
and determined entrance to secondary institutions.
Data as of November 1988
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