The presented charts depict the mean degrees of involvement in academic pursuits and the pinnacle level of education attained by adults in Singapore during the period spanning from 2000 to 2010.
Overall, adult males had more schooling than adult females did, and the difference between the two genders grew with time. Although the majority of people had high school or university degrees in 2000 and 2010, it was the primary qualification that had the biggest shift throughout this time.
Rising from 9 years in 2000 to 12 in 2010, adult males’ schooling years increased more than 30 percent. On the other hand, adult females’ number of years in school remained almost stagnant over the time. From 8 in 2000 to 9 in 2010, female schooling years experienced only 1 year increase, which was almost 20% less than that of males. However, total annual number of both male and female average schooling years rose steadily over the 10 years.
The biggest damaged category was Primary Qualification, which had a dramatic fall from 25.77% in 2000 to 2.1% in 2010. In fact, rates for elementary, secondary, and high schools all experienced significant drops, whilst rates for universities and graduate programs sharply rose. The rate of university qualification climbed most considerably whereas that of Primary qualifications sharply fell as adult men’ schooling years increased over time.