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In 1952, while 81.4% of the children aged 11 to 12 were literate, only 6.3% of them had finished the compulsory six years of education, mostly due to their parents, who were often rather impoverished, needing them for the farms or to get a job to help support the family. In that same year, a vast multi-pronged Plan for the People's Education was launched with the intent of reducing adolescent and adult illiteracy and to ensure that every child of school age is in school as legally required. This plan included fines for parents who did not comply, and these were strictly enforced, often escalating to imprisonment if some of the parents refused to comply and send their children to school. Adult illiteracy was tackled through the use of {{wp|night school|night schools}}.

In 1956, compulsory education for all regardless of gender was raised from six to eight years.

By the late 1960s, Rosaria had succeeded in pulling itself out of the educational abyss in which it had long found itself for the past century: illiteracy among children of school age had virtually disappeared, and adult illiteracy had been slashed down to one-quarter of its original rate.

In 1974, compulsory education was raised to ten years, the final compulsory grade remaining as such to this day even after the end of the regime.

In 1975, an {{wp|instructional television}} programme is created ("Telacademia"), filmed in the [[Rosarian Radio & Television]] studios in [[Adouka]] to support isolated rural areas and overcrowded suburban schools.