Can you explain the education system in australia?

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Mel

Now for NSW it goes.

Day care - for parents that work or want a break, you can enrol them at 6 weeks. They don't learn in this, its just child care.

Preschool - At age 4/5 this is optional and is for the year before they start school, they are taught different things at Preschool.

Primary School
- Kindergarten, you start school depending on your birthday. If youâ€™re born before July then the year you turn 5, if born after or in July then the year you turn 6. Some parents may keep back children born after March or if they are a little slow.
- You then go on from year 1 - 6.

High School / Secondary School
- Years 7 & 8 you do set subjects - English, Maths, Science, Language, History, Geography, Art, and usually a group of subjects that alternate, incl. Woodwork, Metal work, It, Sewing, Food tech, etc.
- Years 9 & 10 you do English, Maths, Science, History and Geography plus two elective you choose yourself.
At the end of year 10 you sit for your school certificate, you can then go on to year 11 and 12 or some leave and work or do an apprenticeship. Year 10 is the minimum needed in NSW.
- Year 11 & 12 the only compulsory subject is English you can then chose other electives.
At the end of year 11 & 12, you sit your Higher School Certificate these marks are used towards your UAI - University Admissions Index, if you choose to go to uni straight from school.

TAFE or Uni is then tertiary education, optional and expensive. This is the same nationally.

Bella B

It varies slightly from state to state.

There are day care centres (creches) that take children from 6 weeks to 5 years. They will often have equivelant to some of the below.

Kindy, kinder, kindergarten is around 4 years of age and is mostly optional.

Pre-school is for around the 5 year age and isn't compulsory mostly. In Queensland this year has been replaced by "prep"

Primary school goes for either 6 or 7 years (Year or Grade 1 to 6 or 1 to7) depending on the state.

High school then goes up to year 12 (7 to 12 or 8 to 12).

Then there is University and TAFE (Technical and Further Education aka Tech in some states). Uni gets you degrees like law, medicine, science, arts, business... TAFE does diplomas and certificates in a wide variety of subjects and apprenticeships such as chefs, hairdressing, electrician, plumber and a number of building type areas.

Ozmaniac

As you can see from the above, every state is different. In Queensland it goes:
Kindergarten - turning 4 during the year
Pre-School - turning 5 during the year
Primary School Year 1 - turning 6 during the year
Primary School Years 2 - 7. Most children turn 12 during year 7
High School - Years 8 - 12. Most children turn 17 during year 12
A small percentage of children (usually those born late in the year) will be a year older than the above ages for each year level.

Age 16 or the end of year 10 (whichever comes first) children is the end of compulsory schooling but children must stay in education, vocational training or full-time work until they turn 17 i.e. they must be 'learning or earning'.

At the end of year 12, qualifying students are awarded the Queensland Certificate of Education (QCE) on which their university entrance will be based.

fab40nola -I'm back...

Primary (In Queensland is Prep to grade 7) Prep only being fully introduced this last year. Before that was pre-school and was NOT compulsory.
High School(grades 8 to 12)
Then Technical College or University or College etc.
BUT... Some schools are now calling themselves College and public schools are sometimes ____ State (Primary) College
and now some schools are Prep to 12, and one local one here is prep to (actual) College...Confused Yet, - sorry.(But thats the facts)

Different States - Different rules

aflumpire

kindergarten (day care), pre school (aka prep), Primary school grade Prep-7 (only to grade 6 in some states), High school to grade 12...

then you can go to University, TAFE or just do whatever...

it does vary state to state with starting ages etc.

Alan B

Pre-school is very much an optional choice, then it proceeds to kindergarden which will last for a year or two depending on the child.

Primary school starts with a first year (name varies from states (its called prep in Melbourne, where as its called Kinder in the ACT). There are then six years of primary education.

Following that, a student goes into secondary schooling, where classes are taught from year seven to year 9 as compulsory schooling. Post year 9 student are able to leave school to seek employment but the majority stay until year 12 (final year of government run schooling).

Within the final year of education (year 12) students are given a score (differing name per state, once again, is VCE in Melbourne). The resulting score (in Melbourne) is called an enter score, and is a culmination of all the mark across all the students 3/4 (or year 12) subjects. This mark is used to gain access to university, which is where of course, degrees are given :)

Hope this helps :)

Miss B

It depends what state you are in. I am a teacher in Western Australia and in WA it goes Kindergarten (age three turning four in the first half of the year or four turning five in the second half of the year), Pre-Primary (age four turning five in the first half of the year or five turning six in the second half of the year) then year one to seven which is Primary school. High school is year eight to 12 and then there is further study like TAFE or Uni. In WA, students need to stay at school until year 10 and can only leave if they have a job or are studying at TAFE, otherwise they stay at school. Other states are different. They have different starting ages and call their classes different things. Hope that helps.

Creche - usually for ages 1-3
Preschool/kindergarten - generally for 3&4 year olds.
Primary School - Ages 5-12
High School/Secondary School - ages 13-18

Creche, preschool, and kindergarten are all pretty closely linked, and it doesn't really matter which you go to cause they are basically the same thing.

Tony Pro

Kangaroo

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