Education System of Selected Countries

1. Australia

Primary school is for 6 years

High School is for 6 years› Junior High : 12-16 years old

› (Junior Secondary Certtificate)

Senior High 16 -18 years old : Senior Secondary

Certificate

College is for 3 – 6 years Develop their capabilities in participating

to workforce. Advance knowledge and understanding Aid the application of knowledge and

understanding the benefit of the economy and society

Enables individual to adopt and learn Continue to civilized democratic society

Academic Years begin in March and ends in November 3 years (Arts, Science, and

Commerce) 4 years (Education and Engineering) 5 years (Veterinary, Science,

Dentistry, Architecture) 6 years (Medicine and Surgery) Bachelors – Masteral – Post

Graduate Diploma

2. CHINA

200M students attending public schools taught by over 9M teacher

Largest educational system Syllabi are written by scientist

and professor hired by National Educational Commission

Primary School – 6 years Development of cognitive skills

High school – 6 years 3 years of middle school3 years of senior school

6 years in college level Varieties of technical and

vocational schools

3. JAPAN

Highly centralized and administered by Mombusho or Ministry of Education

Model of how to operate schools

Obedient, quiet school children and listening to the teacher to pass the subject

Educational system is divided into 5 basic levels:1. Kindergarten2. Elementary school (6years)3. Lower secondary school

(3years)4. Upper (3years)5. College (4years)

Japanese students spends243days a year in school

Subjects: Language, Social studies, Math and Science along with Arts, Music, HE, PE and Japanese language

Lower Secondary cover: grade 7, 8 & 9

Men compose of 2/3 of the teachers in this level.

Upper secondary schools offer academic, technical and vocational program.

1ST year courses includes Japanese language, English, science & math

Vocational course includes: Information processing, navigation, fish farming, ceramics & business English. It is ranked based on their success in placing graduating students in prestigious universities.

Higher Education: Junior colleges: home

economics, nursing, teaching, humanities and social sciences.

The students must take 2 exams:

1. National achievement test2. Given by the university itself

RONIN: which originally meant SAMURAI 60% of the Universities have

graduate schools, but only 7% of university graduates gets master degree.