Education system

[Kakorot]

:salam2:

How is the education system in countries, such as America, Canada, Austrailia, NZ, South Africa and even in some of the Muslim countries?

E.g. here (UK) we have primary school, then secondary school, then college/sixth form and then university.

Would be interesting to know.

 

[Aapa]

Assalaam walaikum,


Pre-school, Kindergarten, Grades 1-6 ( Elementary School); Grades 6-8 Middle School/ Junior High and Grades 9-12 High School. Some states have grades 1-5 as the primary schools, some have 678 as middle and grade 9 by itself; some have grades 9 and 10 in one school and senior high would be 11 and 12th.

After High Schoo...you go on to trade school or college.

 

[Aisya al-Humaira]

Assalamua'alaykum wa rahmatullah,

Here in Malaysia:

Kindergarden (kids age 5/6 yrs old)

Primary School: Standard/Year 1-6

Year 6 we have a national exam (UPSR) where all Year 6 students will take an exam consists of 5 papers basically on the same day throughout the country. The exam usually takes a week. The papers will then be graded by the Ministry of Education and results will be announce approximately 1-2 months later.

Those who achieve good results will usually have brighter chances to pursue in boarding schools.

Secondary School: Form 1-5

During Form 3, there will be another national examination (PMR). Those in public schools usually take 8 papers while those in Islamic schools (madraasah) 9 papers. Addition paper is Arabic language. Its during form 4, students will be divided into various streams such as art streams students and science students.

During Form 5, this is the MAJOR exam in a school's student life (SPM). This is where students usually takes lots of papers, so far there was a student taking until 21 papers if Im not mistaken but since this/last year, The Ministry of Education has limited the papers students can take. Usually those who achieved result Jayyid Jiddan will have the opportunity to further studies overseas.

After that, students pursue their education in colleges/universities for foundation basically, then only they will enter 1st year course etc. Mostly Chinese students will take Form 6 classes, then only they enter universities. As for Malays and others, they usually go to Matriculation College for 1 year and then to Universities.

Thats some brief "story" how the education system works here.

Wassalamua'alaykum.

 

[dna1987]

In New Zealand:
Year 1 to Year 6 in Primary school.
Year 7 and Year 8 (also known as Form 1 and Form 2) is in Intermediate School (this is to mainly prepare students for high school, and also has a strong focus on puberty-related issues..education and what not).
Year 9 to Year 13 (also Form 3 to Form 7) is in High school.

After that, a person can go to university, etc.

In Australia:
Kindergarden: 5 year olds go to prepare for primary school (?)
Year 1 to Year 7 is in Primary school
Year 8 to Year 12 is in High school (note: Australian Year 12 = NZ Year 13; the extra year is in Kindergarden)
University after that.

 

[elysetexel]

In Holland,

Kindergarden from 4 till 6
basisschool (basicschool) 6 till 12
middelbareschool (middleagedschool) 12 till 16 years old
And then you have different direction you can go to in different hights like MBO HBO and then university.