Peru : Educational Reform. Analysis and Projects. Volume I

Abstract

The Government of Peru has embarked upon a significant programme of social and economic change with the reform of the educational system constituting a keystone in this process of national development. The intention is to relate closely education with the world of work through the introduction of work orientation in the progranme of the basic education cycle and the inclusion of work experience in the upper secondary curriculum. The educational reform is to be phased with a primary stage consisting of structural changes and reformed institutions in selected localities with the sacondary stage involving the generalization of the reform throughout the country. This Report supports this concept of phased development based on a vector planning approaoh as being the most suitable method for avoiding the constraints of a fixed target date of implementation, and outlines a project for external financing, which would supply elements largely based on a geographical distribution of facilities for the introduction of the first phase of the educational reform.