South+Korea

=South Korea (Republic of Korea):=

Students enter primary education at the age of six and the duration is six years. As of year 2007 1,825,261 were females out of 3,837,696 enrolled in primary education. There is a consistent 102-104 gross enrollment rate for female and male students, which is an increase from 99 rate in 1999. In regards to internal efficiency the survival rate for males and females are extremely high ranging from 97-98% as of 2006. The pupil/teacher ratio is 25.59, which is an improvement from 1999 of 32.23.
 * Primary Education:**

The transition rate from primary to secondary education for male and female is 98.5% as of 2006. The secondary gross enrollment ratio is 97.49 and the net enrollment ratio 96.45. The vocational and technical percentage of all secondary enrollment is 12.61 and 26.73 for upper secondary. Of the 494,011 students enrolled in the vocational and technical enrollment 226,944 are female. The secondary pupil/teacher ratio is 18.06, which is an improvement from 22.13 in 1999.
 * Secondary Education**:

The female gross enrollment ratio in 2007 was 76.57 while the male is 113.83. In 2006 604,862 graduated from tertiary education.
 * Tertiary Education**: