Interesting Facts - Education

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[size=4][color=red][font=verdana, sans-serif][left]•[/left][/font][/color][color=#000000][font=verdana, sans-serif][/font][/color][color=navy][font=verdana, sans-serif][left][b]speaking kids are the world's biggest novel readers - but the least enthusiastic comic readers.[/b][/left][/font][/color]
[color=red][font=verdana, sans-serif][left]•[/left][/font][/color][color=#000000][font=verdana, sans-serif][/font][/color][color=navy][font=verdana, sans-serif][left][b]Japanese and South Korean kids are the best in the world at science and maths.[/b][/left][/font][/color]
[color=red][font=verdana, sans-serif][left]•[/left][/font][/color][color=#000000][font=verdana, sans-serif][/font][/color][color=navy][font=verdana, sans-serif][left][b]Three quarters of Japanese kids read comics. [/b][/left][/font][/color]
[color=red][font=verdana, sans-serif][left]•[/left][/font][/color][color=#000000][font=verdana, sans-serif][/font][/color][color=navy][font=verdana, sans-serif][left][b]American adults have spent more time than anyone in education . [/b][/left][/font][/color]
[color=red][font=verdana, sans-serif][left]•[/left][/font][/color][color=#000000][font=verdana, sans-serif][/font][/color][color=navy][font=verdana, sans-serif][left][b]There are 22 countries where more than half the population is illiterate. Fifteen of them are in Africa.[/b][/left][/font][/color]
[color=red][font=verdana, sans-serif][left]•[/left][/font][/color][color=#000000][font=verdana, sans-serif][/font][/color][color=navy][font=verdana, sans-serif][left][b]The women of Iceland earn two-thirds of their nation's university degrees. [/b][/left][/font][/color]
[color=red][font=verdana, sans-serif][left]•[/left][/font][/color][color=navy][font=verdana, sans-serif][left][b] More than half of Indonesia's primary school teachers are under 30years of age [/b][/left][/font][/color][color=#000000][font=verdana, sans-serif][left].[/left][/font][/color]
[color=red][font=verdana, sans-serif][left]•[/left][/font][/color][color=#000000][font=verdana, sans-serif][/font][/color][color=navy][font=verdana, sans-serif][left][b]Thinking of becoming a teacher? Head to Switzerland. Teaching salaries there start at $US 33,000. [/b][/left][/font][/color]
[color=red][font=verdana, sans-serif][left]•[/left][/font][/color][color=#000000][font=verdana, sans-serif][/font][/color][color=navy][font=verdana, sans-serif][left][b]Kids in Mali spend only 2 years in school. More than half of them start working between the ages of 10 and 14.[/b][/left][/font][/color]
[color=red][font=verdana, sans-serif][left]•[/left][/font][/color][color=navy][font=verdana, sans-serif][left][b] Teachers make up 7.8 percent of Iceland’s labor force - and they only have to teach 38 weeks per year.[/b][/left][/font][/color]
[color=red][font=verdana, sans-serif][left]•[/left][/font][/color][color=navy][font=verdana, sans-serif][left][b] Central European men don’t teach. In Hungary, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia, over 75 percent of lower secondary teachers are female
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