Education in Mongolia

Mongolia's apprenticeship arrangement has undergone above changes in the accomplished century. The apprenticeship reforms during antipathetic times were a abrupt breach with acceptable apprenticeship that was about religious and esoteric. These reforms were modeled on Soviet apprenticeship systems and abundantly broadcast admission to apprenticeship for Mongolian citizens. Among the changes was a alteration from the acceptable Mongolian script, from 1941 to 1946, to the Cyrillic alphabet. Literacy was abundantly broadcast as a lot of of the citizenry enjoyed chargeless primary school. However, the move to capitalism and chargeless markets in the 1990s has had some abrogating impacts on apprenticeship in Mongolia, admitting these setbacks accept been ameliorated some by an convalescent abridgement and action reforms. Abounding adults account from the non-formal ambit apprenticeship programs sponsored by the government in affiliation with adopted NGOs. Today apprenticeship in Mongolia is overseen by the Ministry of Education, Culture, and Science.

In June 2011, VSO Mongolia appear a address on the apprenticeship area which looked at progress, challenges and approaching priorities accustomed the accepted socio-economic changes in Mongolia.[1] The report, which was launched to admire IYV+10 (10th Anniversary of the All-embracing Year of Volunteers), showed that there were abundant opportunities presented by the top akin of bread-and-butter growth, which has brought added assets into the sector. However, it showed that as Mongolia emerges assimilate the apple stage, the alterity amid affluent and poor could leave abounding marginalised if it comes to benefiting from education. The address argued that the Mongolian government has fabricated an immense accomplishment to advance the apprenticeship area at all levels back its alteration to capitalism with an admirable artlessness and alertness to advance appear its added development. This was decidedly acclaimed in all-around for Mongolia's different country characteristics such as the drifting lifestyle, low citizenry body in limited areas, and appetite appear affair all-embracing standards.

The address aswell showed that Mongolian humans accept consistently admired apprenticeship over added attributes and accept commonly fabricated it their antecedence to brainwash their children. Due to these efforts, the allegation showed that all-embracing the parents were annoyed with their children’s advance at school. However, there were still abounding challenges that abide to be tackled. The allegation aswell showed that amidst all stakeholders, there was an cutting majority who gave a abrogating acknowledgment if asked about the achievement of the area at present; this was in the superior of apprenticeship (68%), admission to apprenticeship (83%), and the amplitude of the arrangement for disadvantaged groups (76%).In absolute what VSO Mongolia accomplished in its apprenticeship programme over the endure 20 years, the address showed that all-embracing volunteers accept and abide to accomplish a cogent appulse in the development of the apprenticeship sector. Stakeholders who took allotment in this analysis about captivated a absolute appearance of the role and access of the all-embracing volunteers, with 67% of respondents apropos them as accepting played a acute role in education. While just over bisected of respondents had acquaintance of alive with all-embracing volunteers, 94% of respondents were accommodating to plan with them in the future. At this date in Mongolia’s development, the appliance and appulse of all-embracing

volunteering was accent if acclamation these challenges and approaching priorities in demography the apprenticeship area advanced to accomplish its ultimate ambition of "Education for All."
Mongolia has an extensive, state-financed pre-school apprenticeship system. There are over 700 accompaniment and clandestine kindergartens (name for day care). During left-wing times, every sum had at atomic one nursery academy and a kindergarten. Currently there are alone kindergartens that accept accouchement over the age of 3. In Ulaanbaatar, there are some abreast run nursery schools and kindergartens; abounding action accent training, for example, Russian.The arrangement for lower-level apprenticeship in Mongolia has been agnate to the one acclimated during antipathetic times, admitting the government has amorphous reforms to aggrandize it The aboriginal arrangement included four years of compulsatory ancestry followed by a added four years of compulsatory lower-secondary education. There were again two years of upper-secondary non-compulsory apprenticeship that either accept a vocational, technical, or accepted apprenticeship focus. The amplification began in 2004 with the official academy access age bottomward from age 8 to 7.

 A added amplification was set to yield abode in 2008 with the access grade-level bottomward one added year to age 6. The ambition is to accept a 12-year 6-4-2 arrangement for primary and accessory education.As of 2003 there were 688 primary and accessory schools with about 528,000 acceptance and 20,725 teachers. There were 32 abstruse and abstruse training centers with 20,000 acceptance and over 800 teachers.
As in abounding post-socialist countries, Mongolia's academy system, ahead based on the ten-year school, has been alive appear eleven years of education. The official academy access age was bargain to six starting in 2008. Compulsatory apprenticeship is eight years. The academy year begins on 1 September.

Schools in sum centers usually accept boarding schools for pupils from the countryside. Abounding of these sum schools alone go to the eighth grade. Pupils who wish to complete accessory academy accept to appear schools in the aimag centers.

In Ulaanbaatar and cities like Erdenet there are clandestine schools, admitting of alloyed quality. Ulaanbaatar aswell has some foreign-language themed accessible schools, for archetype for Russian, Chinese, Turkish, English, and German.