Editing Mongolia (section)

=== Education ===
{{main|Education in Mongolia}}
During the state socialist period, education was one of the areas of significant achievement in Mongolia. Before the [[Mongolian People's Republic|People's Republic]], literacy rates were below one percent. By 1952, illiteracy was virtually eliminated,<ref>{{Cite news |title=Mongolian People's Republic |work=TheFreeDictionary.com |url=http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Mongolian+People's+Republic |url-status=live |access-date=2016-11-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170212105459/http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Mongolian+People%27s+Republic |archive-date=February 12, 2017 |df=mdy-all}}</ref> in part through the use of seasonal boarding schools for children of nomadic families. Funding to these boarding schools was cut in the 1990s, contributing to slightly increased illiteracy.

Primary and secondary education formerly lasted ten years, but was expanded to eleven years. Since the 2008–2009 school year, new first-graders are using the 12-year system, with a full transition to the 12-year system in the 2019–2020 school year.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Зургаан настнууд зутрах шинжтэй |url=http://www.olloo.mn/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1134602 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130525093517/http://www.olloo.mn/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1134602 |archive-date=May 25, 2013 |access-date=2013-06-28 |publisher=Olloo.mn |language=mn |df=mdy-all}}</ref>

{{As of|2006}}, English is taught in all secondary schools across Mongolia, beginning in fourth grade. English has taken over from Russian as the dominant foreign language in Mongolia, particularly in Ulaanbaatar.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Dovchin |first=Sender |date=2021-10-04 |title=The Rise of English in Mongolia |url=https://www.mongoliaweekly.org/post/the-rise-of-english-in-mongolia |access-date=2023-03-25 |website=Mongolia Weekly |language=en |archive-date=25 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230325212203/https://www.mongoliaweekly.org/post/the-rise-of-english-in-mongolia |url-status=live}}</ref>

Mongolian national universities are all spin-offs from the [[National University of Mongolia]] and the [[Mongolian University of Science and Technology]]. Almost three in five Mongolian youths now enroll in university. There was a six-fold increase in students between 1993 and 2010.<ref>Jakob Engel and Annalisa Prizzon, with Gerelmaa Amgaabazar, July 2014, From decline to recovery: Post-primary education in
Mongolia, {{Cite web |title=Development Progress |url=http://www.developmentprogress.org/sites/developmentprogress.org/files/case-study-summary/mongolia_summary_digi.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141016014354/http://www.developmentprogress.org/sites/developmentprogress.org/files/case-study-summary/mongolia_summary_digi.pdf |archive-date=October 16, 2014 |access-date=2014-10-10 |df=mdy-all}}</ref>