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Education: A High-Quality System

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The level of education is high. The literacy rate in the country is 97%. This figure is the highest ever recorded and a triumph worth celebrating considering the state of the country less than a hundred years ago.

Basic education is free. Traditionally, the supply of public schools has not been sufficient to provide schooling for the entire population , so all democratic governments have chosen to subsidize private schools to provide enough places for all. The system consists of the state paying an agreed amount to these schools in exchange for offering free education to all social strata under educational parameters similar to those of the public schools, permitting, on the other hand, the religious bias of these centers.

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Tapiador, F.J. (2020). Education: A High-Quality System. In: The Geography of Spain. World Regional Geography Book Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-18907-5_25

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