Editing Venezuela (section)

== Education ==
{{Main|Education in Venezuela}}
[[File:Illiteracy in Venezuela.svg|thumb|right|Illiteracy rate in Venezuela based on data from UNESCO<ref name="unesco1988">{{cite web|url=http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0008/000815/081521mb.pdf|title=Compendium of statistics on illiteracy|year=1988|author=UNESCO|access-date=10 June 2017}}</ref><ref name="unesco-uis">{{cite web|url=http://data.uis.unesco.org|title=UIS.Stat|publisher=UNESCO INSTITUTE FOR STATISTICS|access-date=10 June 2017}}</ref> and the Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE) of Venezuela<ref name="ortega">{{cite journal |last1=Daniel |first1=Ortega |last2=Rodríguez |first2=Francisco |date=October 2008 |title=Freed from Illiteracy? A Closer Look at Venezuela's Misión Robinson Literacy Campaign |journal=Economic Development and Cultural Change |volume= 57|issue=1 |pages=1–30 |doi=10.1086/590461 |s2cid=143581685}}</ref>]]
In 2008, 95.2% of the adult population was literate.<ref name="hdrstats.undp.org">{{cite web|url=http://hdrstats.undp.org/en/countries/data_sheets/cty_ds_VEN.html|title=Human Development Report 2009 – Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)|publisher=Hdrstats.undp.org|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100218153602/http://hdrstats.undp.org/en/countries/data_sheets/cty_ds_VEN.html|archive-date=18 February 2010|url-status=dead|access-date=25 April 2010}}</ref> The net primary school enrollment rate was at 91% and the net secondary school enrollment rate was at 63% in 2005.<ref name="hdrstats.undp.org" /> Venezuela has a number of universities, of which the most prestigious are the [[Central University of Venezuela]] founded in 1721, the [[University of Zulia]], the [[University of the Andes (Venezuela)|University of the Andes]], [[Simón Bolívar University (Venezuela)|Simón Bolívar University]], and the [[Universidad de Oriente|University of the East]].

Currently, many Venezuelan graduates seek a future abroad because of the country's troubled economy and heavy crime rate. Over 1.35 million Venezuelan college graduates have left the country since the beginning of the [[Bolivarian Revolution]].<ref name=ENHaug28 /><ref name=Elimpulso23AUG /> It is believed that nearly 12% of Venezuelans live abroad, with Ireland becoming a popular destination for students.<ref>{{cite news|last=Goodman|first=Joshua |url=https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/venezuelas-best-brightest-camp-sidewalks-22308016 |title=Venezuela's Best and Brightest Camp on Sidewalks|newspaper=ABC News|date=31 January 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140209121314/https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/venezuelas-best-brightest-camp-sidewalks-22308016|archive-date=9 February 2014|url-status=dead |access-date=9 February 2014}}</ref> According to Claudio Bifano, president of the Venezuelan Academy of Physical, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences, more than half of all medical graduates had left Venezuela in 2013.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Capacity building: Architects of South American science|journal=Nature|volume=510|issue=7504 |pages=209–212|last1=Arzt|first1=E.|last2=Orjeda|first2=G.|last3=Nobre|first3=C.|last4=Castilla|first4=J.C. |last5=Barañao|first5=L.|last6=Ribeiro|first6=S. |last7=Bifano|first7=C.|last8=Krieger|first8=J.E. |last9=Guerrero|first9=P.C. |date=12 June 2014|doi=10.1038/510209a|pmid=24926500|s2cid=38221305 |access-date=9 July 2014 |url=http://www.nature.com/polopoly_fs/1.15377!/menu/main/topColumns/topLeftColumn/pdf/510209a.pdf}}</ref>

By 2018, over half of all Venezuelan children had [[dropped out]] of school, with 58% of students quitting nationwide while areas near bordering countries saw more than 80% of their students leave.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Deserción escolar se ubica en 58% en todo el país|date=1 July 2018|work=[[La Patilla]]|language=es |url=https://www.lapatilla.com/2018/07/17/desercion-escolar-se-ubica-en-58-en-todo-el-pais/|access-date=18 July 2018}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite web|title=Deserción escolar alcanza el 58% en todo el país|work=Contexto Diario|language=es|url=http://contextodiario.com/venezuela/desercion-escolar-alcanza-el-58-en-todo-el-pais/|access-date=18 July 2018|archive-date=18 July 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180718114550/http://contextodiario.com/venezuela/desercion-escolar-alcanza-el-58-en-todo-el-pais/|url-status=dead}}</ref> Nationwide, about 93% of schools do not meet the minimum requirements to operate and 77% do not have utilities such as food, water or electricity.<ref name=":2" />