15 Facts About Secondary education

Secondary education typically takes place after six years of primary education and is followed by higher education, vocational education or employment.

Since 1989, education has been seen as a basic human right for a child; Article 28, of the Convention on the Rights of the Child states that primary education should be free and compulsory while different forms of secondary education, including general and vocational education, should be available and accessible to every child.

In classical and medieval times, secondary education was provided by the church for the sons of nobility and to boys preparing for universities and the priesthood.

The rights to a secondary education were codified after 1945, and some countries are moving to mandatory and free secondary education for all youth under 19.

Secondary education is in most countries the phase in the education continuum responsible for the development of the young during their adolescence, the most rapid phase of their physical, mental and emotional growth.

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End of lower secondary education often coincides with the end of compulsory education in countries where that exists.

Completion of secondary education provides the entry requirements to Level 5 tertiary education, the entry requirements to technical or vocational education, or direct entry into the workplace.

In Western Europe, formal secondary education can be traced back to the Athenian educational reforms of 320BC.

Secondary education needed trained priests to conduct church services and boys to sing in the choir.

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights declared that elementary and fundamental Secondary education, which it didn't define, was a right to be enjoyed by all.

The Education Act 1944 made sweeping changes to the funding of state Secondary education using the tripartite system, but wasn't allowed to tackle private schools.

Universal Declaration of Human Rights declared that elementary and fundamental Secondary education was a right to be enjoyed by all, but again could not define either elementary and fundamental Secondary education.

Article 28, of the Convention on the Rights of the Child stated that primary education should be free and compulsory while different forms of secondary education, including general and vocational education, should be available and accessible to everychild.

Free Secondary education should be provided and financial assistance offered in case of need.

In 2017, Human Rights Watch adopted a policy calling on states to take immediate measures to ensure that secondary education is accessible to all free of charge, and compulsory through the end of lower-secondary school.