– What are the biggest absurdities that ever happened in a school?
– How did we do without school?
In Australia, where students spend more than 20 years of their life in school. This means that an Australian studies 20.3 years, from elementary school to college! The variable analyzed by the 2007 Global Education Digest is this average number of years of schooling. The study is an annual publication of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco). Other bodies make the measurement in daily class hours, such as the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), but, as they consider fewer countries, it is not possible to pinpoint an accurate result. One of the countries with the most class hours, for example, is China, whose data the OECD does not include. But according to Chinese Youth and Children Research, Chinese children can spend up to 12 hours a day studying, even on weekends! So, if you complain that you spend too much time at school here in Brazil, check below how many years students from different countries spend sitting at their desks and what student life is like around the world. 😉
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The worst in the ranking, in addition to these three countries, include Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Central African Republic, Comoros, Côte d’Ivoire, Ethiopia, Mali and Togo, all with 0.1 year. In Mali, only 19% of the people are literate
OUT, FOREIGNERS
Despite its good position on the list, Belgium is tough for foreign students or descendants of immigrants. There, they have the least chance of getting to university and, in mathematics, they perform much worse than the natives.
HOME SCHOOL
Not only formal schools live in Denmark. There, the childminder, the person who takes care of four or five children from 26 weeks of age in their own home, is officially recognized by the State as educated.
SOVIET HERITAGE
The legacy of the times of the Soviet Union is still felt in the country. An example of this is the education system. Many schools, even kindergarten, teach in Russian, and not in the country’s official language, Estonian.
FROM BASIC TO SUPERIOR
How many years do students spend in the sum of primary, secondary and higher education
END OF LINE
Niger, Djibouti and Burkina Faso also score poorly on the gender access to education list. In Niger, boys study one year longer than girls. School life in the country lasts, on average, 4 years for men and 2.9 for women.
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Of the countries that appear on the podium of years of study, the only one that also figures among those that spend the most on education, in proportion to the gross domestic product, is Iceland. The country invests 7.7% of its income in education.
NATIVE CULTURE
The Maoris, the island’s native people who make up 1/7 of New Zealand’s population, are gaining in popularity. Since 2002, the number of students in public schools that teach the language and culture of these people has grown by 16%
WELCOME, WORLD!
Australia is the fifth country that receives the most foreign students of higher education, behind the USA, United Kingdom, France and Germany. In 2005, outsiders were 207,264, mostly from Asian nations.