Education in Honduras is free and compulsory between the ages of seven and fifteen. The teaching system follows a European method of centralized control under the leadership of the Ministry of Education.Illiteracy rate is 22.5%. However, it reached 44.9% in 1990 among the adult population older than age 15, out of which 36.9% were men and 52.9% were women.The government has raised the literacy level. There’re some 8,000 elementary schools, roughly 600 junior high, technical and teachers’ schools, plus five colleges like the Autonomous University of Honduras, founded in 1847, the nation’s major higher-education center.Education has played a major role in the process of social mobility. The desire of youngsters and grownups alike to join the alumni of high and higher education centers has rendered in a higher growth rate in educational level. Uneven distribution of educational opportunities is deep in rural areas and marginal populations in the cities.
