DID YOU KNOW?
FACTS & FICTION WITH A MEXICAN TWIST
DECEMBER 2003

Did You Know That...

  ...thousands of Mexican secondary school students receive all their classes by TV?

Mexico's pioneering "telesecundaria" or "television secondary school" system began back in 1968. It now provides junior high school classes in remote areas, serving about one million students in grades 7 to 9, 17% of the total nationwide enrolment in these grades.

Many of the telesecundaria lessons are now available on the Internet, and before long, about 4,500 classes will also be available on a DVD collection.

 

The geographical network of telesecundarias is truly amazing. In the early 1980s, I came across one high in the mountains in a distant corner of the state of Hidalgo, in a remote Huastec village, beyond even Coca Cola's delivery routes. A visitor was such a surprise that the entire village turned out to inspect me!

It was that experience that made me realize that Mexicans take education very very seriously. The telesecundaria was perched on the hillside overlooking the village. As I later discovered, this was a fairly typical example, with...

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