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Kyrgyzstan
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In the mid-1990s, much of the Soviet-era education system remained in
Kyrgyzstan, which had made a conscientious effort to educate all of its
citizens before 1991 and continued to do so after that date. Substantial
structural and curriculum changes were underway by 1995, however. The 1993
constitution continues the Soviet guarantee of free basic education at
state institutions to all citizens; education is compulsory through grade
nine. Free education at the vocational, secondary specialized, and higher
levels also continues to be offered by the state to qualified individuals.
The fundamentals of post-Soviet education policy were enumerated in the
1992 law on education, which established the Ministry of Education as the
central administrative body of the national system. Although Soviet-era
statistics indicated that 100 percent of the people between the ages of
nine and forty-nine were literate, the actual literacy rate probably is
somewhat less.
Data as of March 1996
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