Dear Ejanzen,
As long as any educational institution is a potential client for
wireless LANs technologies, your question is equivalent to ask how
many educational institutions are there in the world. However, this
reformulated question is not as easy to answer as it may seem. The
first source I tried, was the UNESCO statistics (
http://www.uis.unesco.org/en/stats/stats0.htm ), clicking the link
“Institutions by level of education” where I could find approximations
for 1997 as the most updated information, just for primary and
pre-primary levels. I decided to consider only primary schools, which
seem more likely to engage in a LAN project than a pre-primary. Taking
in consideration that not all countries provided information for those
tables, the total actual primary schools should reach a number higher
than 2.6 millions, not including the USA.
Regarding to American institutions, more accurate information was
found at the National Center for Education Statistics, Digest of
Education Statistics, 2001 (
http://nces.ed.gov//pubs2002/digest2001/list_tables.asp#ch1_1 ) Table
5. — Educational institutions, by level and control of institution:
1980-81 to 1999-2000. In this case, institutions of all levels reach a
number close to 130,000.
I could find no information outside the USA regarding secondary
schools, but an estimate can be obtained by considering that primary
level students are more than 3,000,000,000 for more than 2.6 million
schools. Assuming a similar proportion, since there are around 1.8
million secondary level students, there should be around 1.6 million
secondary schools.
Considering that only the Braintrack (http://www.braintrack.com/) list
of university links, there are at least 6000 higher educations
institutions in the world.
I consider all this data builds up a potential market for wireless LAN
technologies of more than 4.5 million institutions.
Please feel free to ask for further clarifications.
Best regards,
Guillermo |
Clarification of Answer by
guillermo-ga
on
24 Aug 2002 05:50 PDT
Dear Ejanszen,
I couple of things I must add. Information about number of students
worldwide was obtained from table II.S.3 Enrolment by level of
education, Yearbook 1999 UNESCO, at the same link mentioned in the
answer.
Regarding my searching strategy, I started at Google Advance Search,
with different combinations of the words educational institutions,
high schools, higher education, worldwide, statistics.
Best regards,
Guillermo
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Request for Answer Clarification by
ejanszen-ga
on
24 Aug 2002 13:35 PDT
Guillermo,
While not every educational institution is a potential purchaser of
wireless LANs, knowing how many educational institutions exist in the
world is useful. Our company sells products primarily to larger
higher education institutions, therefor if you can tell me the total
number of higher education institutions worldwide with > 1000
students, I'll consider the question answered. If you can tell me the
number with 1,000 - 3,000 students and the number with > 3,000
students, I'll consider the question answered with the highest rating.
Thank you.
Eric
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Clarification of Answer by
guillermo-ga
on
24 Aug 2002 19:56 PDT
Dear Eric,
You’re making it as clear as it can be. I’ll start working in that
direction and give you the results as soon as possible. It may take a
couple of days; I hope that’s OK for you. Otherwise, please let me
know.
Thank you for your interesting question.
Best regards,
Guillermo
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Request for Answer Clarification by
ejanszen-ga
on
30 Aug 2002 06:18 PDT
Ok, I look forward to your response.
Rgds,
Eric
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Clarification of Answer by
guillermo-ga
on
01 Sep 2002 15:52 PDT
Dear Eric,
Since your first clarification request, I’ve spent several hours a day
trying to find the precisions you asked me for, regarding higher
education institutions. Though being methodic in my search, I haven’t
found yet online the results we’re looking for. So, I’ve decided to
step to an offline search strategy.
You’ve probably noticed by now that this is turning out to be the kind
of search based on persistence. A successful end, though likely, can’t
be guaranteed. Instead, I can guarantee a relentless effort, as well
as a timely recognition of dead end if I ever get to it. For now, it’s
still early to say so, since there are strategies to try left.
However, if that finally happens, I’ll offer to your consideration
some other useful information obtained through my research.
I’ll keep you informed. Thank you for your patience.
Guillermo
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Clarification of Answer by
guillermo-ga
on
04 Sep 2002 10:10 PDT
Dear Eric,
Carrying on this stimulating search, as much off as on-line, refining
strategies, I found some information that, while not being the
quantity of +1000 and +3000 higher education institutions of all
countries, is an interesting approximation that you may find useful in
order to build a marketing strategy. Please notice I’m not posting
this news as the end of search, I believe there’s more to find yet,
but it takes time, since it turned out to be the
needle-in-the-haystack kind of search.
On line, I’d been trying, with no success so far, all significant
combinations of the words number, quantity, students, seats,
university, rank, attendance, enrolment, college, higher educational
institutions, giving back at each query lots of promising pages to
verify, that proved not to be the goal. A new possibility appeared
when including the word “size”, referring to institutions. That’s how
I came across this article called “Higher Education: An International
Perspective”, by Richard P. Phelps, Greta L. Dietrich, Gabriele
Phillips, Kevin A. McCormack, dated year 2000, “A comparative review
of higher education systems in the United States and selected other
developed countries”, at
http://www.math.nyu.edu/mfdd/braams/k12mc/IHE-All.html . Presented as
a sequence of PDF files, the one called “Appendix B, Chapter 1-2” (
http://www.math.nyu.edu/mfdd/braams/k12mc/IHE-AppBa.pdf ) includes the
chart “Table B2.18-19: Number of public and private higher education
institutions, number of students enrolled, and average number of
students per institution, by level and country: various years”. For an
easier access, I’ve posted it (just the table) as a Word file at
http://www.lucidmatrix.com/uploads/Students per Institution.doc ,
where it’ll remain available for 30 days from now.
Hoping you find it helpful, I’ll keep you informed of further news.
Regards,
Guillermo
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Clarification of Answer by
guillermo-ga
on
04 Sep 2002 10:18 PDT
Eric, please apologize, an error occurred when posting the URL where I
uploaded the table. Please forget the one above and try this one:
http://www.lucidmatrix.com/uploads/Students_per_Institution.doc .
Thanks for your understanding.
Guillermo
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