Context:

Factors related to context relate to the broader economic and social setting of which education is a part. Included among the indicators are the rates of urbanization, life expectancy at birth, and the adult HIV/AIDS prevalence rate. These variables are meant to capture some of the positive and negative factors outside the education system affecting the generation of human capacity. One of these, incorporated in the Human Development Index, is the rate of economic growth. Rapid economic growth is educational. It demonstrates in practical ways the advantages of discipline, enterprise, competition, inventiveness, and flexibility. Economic growth also confirms the value of adaptability and flexibility associated with the habit of life-long learning.