Australia`s level of education is among the highest in the world, attracting countless overseas students to study and live.
However. Because of differences in language and culture, most new immigrants or international students do not know much about Australia`s education system. Today, editor on Lei Feng, let you take a breath to understand the Australian education system and the way, to break all your confusion about Australian education!
First of all, take a look at the classification of schools:
School type
Public school (Public School)
School in public schools is completely free of charge, the annual miscellaneous fees are only a few hundred dollars;
Private schools (Private School/ Independent School)
Private school fees! When! High! From elementary school to the end of Year12, 10-30, 000 to 30, 000 a year, parents can afford to pay for their high-end uniforms, social networking, and so on. But children who come out of private schools may not only get better grades, they will also be more courteous and gentler;
Catholic Church School (Catholic School)
Catholic schools cost about a few thousand dollars a year, and admission is required to practice Catholicism. Although grades are not much different from public schools, church schools pay more attention to educating children about etiquette and morality.
Many new Chinese immigrants want their children to study here (without discrimination or bullying) because they advocate equality in Catholic schools.
In Australia, if divided into stages, can be divided into pre-school, primary, secondary, university.
Preschool
You can choose to go to kindergarten before you go to primary school. The kindergarten has no private power and has to pay for school. However, due to the quality of teaching, configuration and environment, school location and other factors, tuition fees and queuing time will be very different.
primary school
At the beginning of primary school, the children`s career in school officially began! The following editor summed up some very useful knowledge, you can Mark up and slowly look at it!
Registration time: September-November of the year before school;
School opening time: from the end of January to the beginning of February of each year;
School hours: Monday-Friday, 9: 00 am / 3 / 00 PM.
Schedule of the four-semester system:
First semester: February-April, about 2 weeks off;
Second semester: April-July, about 2 weeks off;
Third semester: July-September, about 2 weeks off;
Fourth semester: October-December, Christmas holiday about 6 weeks.
Grade composition:
You can sign up for Pre-school; at the age of 4.
You can go to Kindergarden (pre-school class) at the age of five before 31 July of each year;
Five years of age after 1 August, one more year to go to school;
Six-to 11-year-old primary school students, corresponding to the Year1-Year6, and the domestic six-year primary school system is similar.
About OC classes:
If you want to attend OC class (Elite class), you can sign up with your teacher in April of your child`s Year4 and then take the exam at the end of July. If you are successful, you can go to the school where you want to go to the elite classes of Year5 and Year6! It`s difficult. It`s big! Only 17% of the top registrants will be admitted! And elite classes do not need to be divided into campuses, but we still need to consider commuting convenience.
If you think your child is a dragon and Phoenix, you can also try the chance of applying for a private school scholarship (Private School Scholarship), which is quite low, but once successful, you can save money to buy a few Mercedes-Benz BMW!
In addition, primary school curricula are mainly English and math, and Australian primary schools are not tested (except for voluntary elite class exams), with relatively little homework. For the last six years, the children have been able to spend the rest of their lives playing. Of course, there seems to be more and more Chinese supplementary classes in recent years.
Note: it is important to note that house prices and rents near excellent public schools are much more expensive than those near ordinary schools!
middle school
Secondary schools in the new state are divided into two parts:
General secondary education (similar to national junior secondary education)-Year7-Year10
High School Education in Australia-Year11-Year12
Australia`s secondary schools are also focused / ordinary?
Like China, Australia`s secondary schools also have key and ordinary secondary schools! But key secondary schools, known as "elite schools" in Sydney, need to pass exams to enroll, and international students are not enrolled directly.
There are three types of elite secondary schools:
Elite middle school Fully Selective High Schools (all classes are key classes, new state altogether 17, in the face of the whole state enrollment, need to pass the elimination rate of extremely high examination);
Some key middle school Partially Selective High School (part class is key class, new prefecture altogether 9);
The agricultural middle school Agricultural High School (has a little name, but the top James Ruse Agricultural high School in new state is the agricultural middle school. There are 4 agricultural secondary schools in the new state)
Application time: Year 5 started signing up for Year 7 in October of that year, or enrolled in Year 8 to Year 12 the following year in June of that year.
At the end of high school in Australia`s college entrance examination: New State to Year 12 (the equivalent of a high school in the country), students have to take the HSC (the Higher School Certificate) test at the end of the day. Then you can get your high school diploma!
Then, if you don`t want to go to college, you can go to Tafe;. If you want to go to college, the HSC score of Year 12 determines 50% of the final results, and the other 50% is the evaluation of Year 12`s normal school performance. Together, it is the college entrance examination score!
Australia`s quality of education ranks among the top three in the world. Living in Australia is like giving the next generation a strong guarantee of education!
