| Education System in Eritrea |
Education in Eritrea begins with two years of preschool education. Elementary Level Education is a five-year school cycle with the mother tongue as the medium of instruction
Middle Level Education is the end of the basic education cycle , lasting from grade six to eight. The medium of instruction from this level onwards is English.
Secondary education lasts four years, with streaming into Natural Sciences or Social Science starting in grades 11-12.
Good progress has been made with implementing vocational training too. A number of training centers processed 27,000 students during 2010 in a variety of specialties, and it is hoped to introduce several more institutions shortly.
Eritrea has a variety of smaller educational colleges and technical schools for further education, where subjects as diverse as agriculture, arts & social sciences, biology, business & economics, and nursing & health technology may be followed.
There are 2 universities too, namely the University of Asmara and the Eritrean Institute of Technology. The former is the older, having been originally instituted in 1958 by the Catholic Church, but has migrated across the years from being a school for expatriate Italian girls, to becoming a national institution.
