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Comparative Education

The document provides an overview of the education systems in France and Germany. In France, education is compulsory between ages 6-16 and includes both primary and lower secondary education. Public education is free. Higher education is divided into three cycles. In Germany, most children attend kindergarten starting at age 3, and primary school begins at age 6 for 4 years. After primary school, students can pursue vocational training or attend secondary school for vocational or university preparation.

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Comparative Education

The document provides an overview of the education systems in France and Germany. In France, education is compulsory between ages 6-16 and includes both primary and lower secondary education. Public education is free. Higher education is divided into three cycles. In Germany, most children attend kindergarten starting at age 3, and primary school begins at age 6 for 4 years. After primary school, students can pursue vocational training or attend secondary school for vocational or university preparation.

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Assignment # 1

Given by sir. Munawwar Hashmi


Given to Muneeba Shafiq
Topic education system of Germany vs France
• The education system in France and Germany has a lot
in common, but at the same time, there are several
differences.

• Let’s have a look and find what are the similarities and
differences!
France

• Compulsory education (age of 6-16) covers both


elementary education and the first four years (collège)
of secondary education. 

• Children are enrolled in kindergarten by their parents


then automatically enrolled in elementary school. 

• Parents may choose the educational institutions they


wish their children to attend. Children go to
kindergarten or nursery school from the age of three.
•  Generally, parents are expected to enroll their
children in the school near their house
• Public education is free.
 
• If a child has never been to school in France,
enrollment in elementary school takes place at the
school or at the town hall. 

• In Paris, a child aged six and over who does not speak
French is sent by the local town hall to a school where
French-language courses for beginners are available.
Children under six attend regular classes in school.
• Secondary education

• Secondary education for students (16 and over) is


dispensed in secondary schools
• In secondary schools for vocational training.
• Students attend the former establishments for three
years to study for the Baccalaureate général and
Baccalauréat technologique examinations.
• They attend the latter establishments for two years to
study for the Certificat d’aptitude professionnelle –
CAP (vocational training certificate)

• two more years are required to prepare for the


Baccalauréat professional examination.
• Brevet
• Brevet-first official diploma – Not required to enter
high school – Consists of the grades from the final
year and a final exam
• Only French, mathematics, history, and geography
Baccalauréat
• High school diploma
• Needed in order to get into a university or any
professional work
• Refers to the diploma and the exams that go along
with it – Similar to SATs or ACTs
•Higher education
• Higher education is divided into three cycles or stages
1. the Premier cycle, two-year course up to DEUG level
2. the Deuxième cycle, third year up to the licence
followed by the one-year maîtrise
• France : 
http://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/en/the-ministry-of-foreign-affairs-158/protocol/social-matters/article/french-educational-s
ystem
1. the Troisième cycle or higher postgraduate study
beginning with the Diplôme d’études approfondies
(DEA) or with the Diplôme d’études supérieures
spécialisées – DESS.
Germany
• 3 to 6-year-old children in Germany have the
opportunity to attend pre-school institutions (not free).
• The infants are not given formal instruction; instead,
their development and relations with other children are
fostered through play.
• Attendance at Kindergarten is totally voluntary.
• Although, since 1996, every child has had the right to
a place in a Kindergarten, there is still a clear shortfall
of places.
• Normally, schooling begins at the age of six
• In the first year of a Grundschule. Children attend
the Grundschule for 4 years (6 in Berlin and
Brandenburg),
• during which time they learn to read, write and to do
arithmetic.
• In addition, teachers also offer some basic instruction
in social science, history, geography, biology, physics
and chemistry.
• They can try out their creative powers in music, art,
and craft lessons.
• Sport also forms part of the curriculum at
theGrundschule.
• The teaching of foreign languages, which used to take place
exclusively in secondary schools, is now also being offered at more
and more primary schools.
• Most students are taught English at Secondary Level I. When they
finish Secondary Level I.
• students sit the Mittlere Reife examination, which entitles them to start
vocational training, to go to a vocational school at Secondary Level II
or to attend a Gymnasium.
• Reference
• Germany: http://www.ukgermanconnection.org/schools-german-education-system

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