Honduras

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Honduras in a nutshell

(sourced from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honduras)

Honduras (Spanish: República de Honduras) is a republic in Central America. It was formerly known as Spanish Honduras to differentiate it from British Honduras (now Belize).

The country is bordered to the west by Guatemala, to the southwest by El Salvador, to the southeast by Nicaragua, to the south by the Pacific Ocean at the Gulf of Fonseca, and to the north by the Gulf of Honduras, a large inlet of the Caribbean Sea.

Its estimated population of almost 7,500,000 in a country whose size is just over 110,000 km²

Its capital is Tegucigalpa.

Honduras is divided into 18 departments. The capital city is in the Central District of the department of Francisco Morazán.

The economy has continued to grow slowly, but the distribution of wealth remains very polarized with average wages remaining low. Economic growth in the last few years has averaged 7% per year which has been one of the most successful growths in Latin America, but 50%, approximately 3.7 million, of the population still remains below the poverty line. According to the World Bank, Honduras is the third poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, after Haiti and Nicaragua. It is estimated that there are more than 1.2 million people who are unemployed, the rate of unemployment standing at 27.9%.

Honduras was declared one of the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund which made it eligible for debt relief in 2005.

Some 90% of the Honduran population is Mestizo (a mixture of Amerindian and European ancestry). About 7% of the Honduran population are members of one of the seven recognized indigenous groups.

Although most Hondurans are nominally Roman Catholic, according to one report membership in the Roman Catholic Church is declining while membership in Protestant churches is increasing.

The official language is Spanish.

Higher education

Universities in Honduras

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Higher education reform

The Bologna Process

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Virtual Campuses in HE

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