Education in Lebanon

Education in Lebanon is regulated by the Ministry of Education and Higher Education (MEHE). In Lebanon, the main three languages, English and/or French with Arabic are taught from early years in schools. English or French are the mandatory media of instruction for mathematics and sciences for all schools.^[1] Education is compulsory from age 3 to 14.^[2]

According to a 2013 World Economic Forum (WEF) report, Lebanon was ranked 17th in overall quality of education, and 5th in science and mathematics.^[3] The survey was carried out as part of the WEF's Global Competitiveness Report. According to Muhammad Faour, a nonresident senior associate at the Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut, "this assessment is a significant departure from the results of student achievement tests in every international test Lebanon and Qatar have participated in."^[4]

According to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and compiled from an amalgamation of international assessments, including the OECD's Pisa tests, the TIMSS tests run by US-based academics as well as the TERCE tests in Latin America, Lebanon ranked 13th globally in mathematics and sciences.^[5]^[6] In the international student achievement tests in math and sciences (TIMSS) in 2007 and 2011 for grade 8, Lebanese students scored well below the international average of 500. In math, Lebanon scored 449 both during 2007 and 2011.^[4]

Lebanon's adult literacy rate was 97.9% in 2014^[7] according to the UN Human Development Index, ranking it 65th globally.

The percentage of the population as a whole with at least some secondary education (aged 25 and above) is 75%. For the percentage of the female population with at least some secondary education, the figure drops to 39%.^[8]

^ "The World Bank (2006) Lebanon Quarterly Update, First Quarter 2006, Beirut: The World Bank" (PDF).
^ "Lebanon: early Childhood care and education programmes" (PDF). UNESCO-IBE. 2006.
^ Bilbao-Osorio, Benat; Dutta, Soumitra; Lanvin, Bruno, eds. (2013). "The Global Information Technology Report 2013: Growth and Jobs in a Hyperconnected World" (PDF). World Economic Forum. Geneva. pp. 324–325. Retrieved 5 February 2014.
^ ^a ^b "Getting education rankings right". Archived from the original on 2018-03-07. Retrieved 2015-10-23.
^ "Asia tops biggest global school rankings". BBC News. 12 May 2015.
^ Nicole Chang (13 May 2015). "Global school rankings: Interactive map shows standards of education across the world". The Independent.
^ "| Human Development Reports". hdr.undp.org. Retrieved 2020-10-02.
^ "| Human Development Reports".

[1] "The World Bank (2006) Lebanon Quarterly Update, First Quarter 2006, Beirut: The World Bank" (PDF).

[IBE2-2] "Lebanon: early Childhood care and education programmes" (PDF). UNESCO-IBE. 2006.

[3] Bilbao-Osorio, Benat; Dutta, Soumitra; Lanvin, Bruno, eds. (2013). "The Global Information Technology Report 2013: Growth and Jobs in a Hyperconnected World" (PDF). World Economic Forum. Geneva. pp. 324–325. Retrieved 5 February 2014.

[globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com-4] "Getting education rankings right". Archived from the original on 2018-03-07. Retrieved 2015-10-23.

[5] "Asia tops biggest global school rankings". BBC News. 12 May 2015.

[6] Nicole Chang (13 May 2015). "Global school rankings: Interactive map shows standards of education across the world". The Independent.

[7] "| Human Development Reports". hdr.undp.org. Retrieved 2020-10-02.

[hdr.undp.org-8] "| Human Development Reports".

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