Chinese Education System
The students within the Chinese education system begin their primary education at age six. This first phase of schooling lasts six years and is compulsory. While the Bolivian school days are very compressed the Chinese school day is 8 hours long and occurs 5 day a week. This schedule is much easier on the student and allows for extra curricular activates and leisure activities.
The school system is well funded and all students have access to various extra curricular activities as well as well kept facilities for scholarly use. This is due to the countries well developed economic system that allows the government of China to put large amounts of funds into its education system. Also because of this, most students are given the opportunity for secondary education of their choice. Students are given the choice between general senior secondary school and a vocational senior secondary school. Many of the students are then encouraged to go on to tertiary education due to China’s high demand for skilled jobs in their economy. Instead of money being a deciding factor on where a student will attend a University, most the of the selection process if based on entrance exam scores, which allows for students who come from the lower class families a chance to attend upper level universities with the hope of eventually getting a high paying skilled job. |