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Secondary education

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Secondary education provides learning and educational activities building on primary education and preparing for labour market entry, post-secondary non-tertiary education and tertiary education. Broadly speaking, secondary education aims at learning at an intermediate level of complexity.
(Source: UIS 2012).

See also ‘Lower secondary education’, ‘Upper secondary education’.

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