Education in Ecuador

1. Education in Ecuador began with the founding of the San Andrés School in Quito in 1550.

Its main students were indigenous, who in turn would be the main "supporters of the artistic boom in the Kingdom of Quito" Freile, C (2015). From this, some private and religious schools were opened.

2. The colonial educational system tended to benefit people with greater economic resources. However, this was not an impediment for the religious educational authorities such as the Jesuits not to give scholarships to people of scarce economic resources.

3. In many of the attempts to make education formal in the country, the Universidad Santo Tomás was founded and remains today under the name of Universidad Central del Ecuador, which allowed a representative point in the development of educational problems.

4. By 1871, primary education was made free and compulsory throughout the country.

A process of training indigenous teachers in women's schools was also integrated and technical education was introduced at a higher level.

6. According to the 2008 Constitution, the State will guarantee free education at all levels, and regulated by the Ministry of Education, this implies that the State must designate a portion of the general budget for investment in education.

At present, Education in Ecuador is divided into: public, fiscal, municipal and private: secular or religious: bilingual, Hispanic or intercultural.

Within the institutions, each of the members has a defined function such as:

Teachers: are those in charge of teaching students and guiding them to learn.

Students: are those responsible for going to any institution to learn with the guidance of teachers

Board of directors: those in charge of the participation of the educational community.

Director, rector or dean: is in charge of coordinating the activities organized to be carried out.

Educational council: collaborates with the authorities to govern the activities and develop them in such a way that they will be able to carry out planned activities in a more concrete way with the students

Initial Education: is the one where children under 5 years of age achieve an integral development among them.

General Basic Education: Preparatory Basic, Elementary Basic, Middle Basic, Higher Basic.

Unified General Baccalaureate: this in turn is divided into 2: the science baccalaureate which is the most common and the other is the technical baccalaureate, depending on the institution, the technical baccalaureate usually changes its specialty.

Higher Education: these are found with two possible options public higher education and private higher education.