06AUG
Council ordinary session 08/2026
The 2026 statistical series, an extension to the consultation, and the plan's half-yearly report.
Council headquarters · Tegucigalpa
News
The public record of what the Council does.
Sessions, methodologies, resolutions and consultations. No campaigns and no personalities: what happened, who took part, and where to read it.
The methodology for tracking education indicators is presentedThe document sets out the formula, source, frequency and limitations of every indicator in the national system, and is open for public consultation.A new forum strengthens coordination across the education systemThe standing technical round table brings together representatives of public education, higher education, vocational training, local government and civil society four times a year.Specialists examine the challenges facing technical educationA technical forum reviewed how well the current training offer matches the skills employers say they need.Public consultation opens on the technical education guidelinesThe consultation stays open until 30 September and accepts submissions from individuals, schools and organisations.The 2026 education statistics are publishedThe complete series for the school year is available in the observatory and in the open data catalogue, in reusable formats.The Council approves publication of the 2026 series at its ordinary sessionThe session also resolved to extend the technical education consultation and approved the half-yearly progress report on the national plan.The half-yearly progress report on the national plan records 17 milestones metThe plan's public dashboard updates progress on all five strands and sets out the two that need attention in the second half of the year.Exit profiles updated for three vocational familiesComputing, energy and health now carry revised profiles, drawn up with employers and with the schools that deliver the courses.
02Institutional diary
Sessions, forums, consultations and technical round tables.
The Council's calendar, with events already held shown faded.
03SEP
Coordination round table · second session
The transition from basic to upper secondary: review of the technical file.
Council headquarters · Tegucigalpa
10SEP
Council ordinary session 09/2026
Agenda: the connectivity report, and changes to the open data catalogue.
Council headquarters · Tegucigalpa
18SEP
National technical education forum
Presentation of the technical forum's conclusions, and a discussion with training centres.
San Pedro Sula, Cortés
30SEP
Technical education consultation closes
Last day to make submissions on the guidelines under consultation.
Online
08OCT
The half-yearly statistical bulletin is presented
A reading of the main movements in the first half-year's series.
Online
22OCT
Local round table · Western region
Targeting education spending on the territories with the widest gaps.
Santa Rosa de Copán, Copán
12NOV
Council ordinary session 11/2026
Agenda: the national learning assessment and the 2027 calendar.
Council headquarters · Tegucigalpa
03Knowledge centre
Analysis and research.
Research · Inclusion and equity
Territorial gaps and opportunities to widen access to education
Upper secondary coverage does not stall evenly across the country: it stalls where local provision ends at ninth grade. The study ranks territories by that condition and estimates the effect of three possible interventions.
30 June 202612 min
Research · Technical education
Technical education and new skills for employment
Sets the current vocational families against the demand employers report, and proposes a way of updating them that does not depend on one-off reviews.
14 May 202610 min
Foresight study · Teacher training
The future of the teaching profession
What changes in teaching when half the workforce turns over in a decade: initial training, induction, career and working conditions.
22 April 202614 min
Cohort study · Retention
The transition from basic to upper secondary: where the system loses people
Follows a complete cohort from first grade and pinpoints, year by year and territory by territory, the exact moment students leave.
28 August 202511 min