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The educational system in Colombia and Venezuela

In the following text, you can look the different types of education between Venezuela and Colombia and how many similar things between Venezuela and Colombia.

Colombia is fifteen years of compulsory education, from the age of three to seventeen. Schools are public and private and they have two calendars A (from January to November) and B (September to June).

Pre-school education in Colombia; children start when they are three or four years old. It is compulsory there are three levels pre-kinder, kinder and transition, where children learn to share with other children and other basic things. When children finish it, they pass to primary school from the age at 6 to 12 years old.
Later they pass to high school from 12 to 17 years old.
High schools are six compulsory years, when they have to study compulsay subjects.
In 11th grade they have to take a goverment test called ICFES to graduete and start studying at university, when usually study five years more before begin their proffesional life.

Venezuela has a similar education system but it has some differences like:
Venezuela primary school has six years, high school is five years. In some schools when you are in 9th grade you can choose between science or agropecuarial (animals plants). If you choose agropecuarial, when you graduate you have a degree “tecnico medio” (technisian) that permits you to work if you can´t go to university.
If you choose science you see subjects related with science like:
Physics, math, chemist, technical drawing and languages. With this type of education you only have a high school degree and you can´t work, you have to go university where you have to study five years more usually.

Once you have known the education in these two countries, you can identify and compare the various types of education in Latin America.

Education.. By Estefanía Galvis

Actually, the Colombian education has a half level in comparison with other countries. Colombia is characterized to have four education levels, also in Colombia the students can study in public schools or in private schools; this Colombian system of education is very similar to other systems of education of other countries like Venezuela.
The first education level is the preschooler, in this level the children learn the basic functions of the language and in general this level has duration of 3 years.
The second level is the primary basic education; this level has duration of 5 years. The third level is the secondary education, this level has duration of 6 years, and the last two years of the secondary school are the most important. in the last two years of the secondary school the students study matters like English, political sciences, democracy, chemistry, physics, mathematics, philosophy, etc.
When the students finish the secondary, they have to present an obligatory exam; the name of the obligatory exam is the ICFES. After study in the secondary school the students receive a diploma like “Bachiller academico”. People can work or to study the fourth education level after of the secondary school.
In the fourth education level the students can study a technical career in institutions like the SENA or they can make a pre-grade education and they can study a professional career as medicine, right, infirmary, social communication, etc. The students can study a post-grade education to be the most professional after of study a pre-grade education. The students have to study the pre-grade education and the post-grade education in a university, in Colombia, in this country there are very good universities like the Sabana University, The Javeriana University, The Nacional University, etc.

In conclution, the colombian education isn`t the best but is good for the people that live in this country, also in other countries the education is similar.

THE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM IN COLOMBIA AND VENEZUELA

The educational system in Colombia and Venezuela can say that is very good and complete, and in the next written I talked about of educational system in the countries that I mentioned.

The educational system in Colombia has four levels: Pre-school education, basic education, half education and the third level is divided into three: Technical education, pregado and postgraduate.

The Pre-school education has three grades, one is obligatory and there are no informal programs of ICBF (INSTITUTO COLOMBIANO DE BIENESTAR FAMILIAR).

The basic education has nine years compulsory because the students study in school the grades first to ninth. The children go to private or public school depending of the economic situation.

In the half education are the grades tenth and eleventh, the student can study in SENA or no formal education.

The superior education has three levels; the first is the Technical education where the students can study in SENA or in technical professional institutions, the second is the Pregrado (professional) where the students can study in the universities and university institutions; and finally, the third level is postgraduate that is at universities.

The educational system in Venezuela has four levels: Pre-school education, basic education, half and professional education and finally superior education.

The first level “Pre-school” is compulsory and the children have to start at five years. The second level is “basic education” is compulsory and the level has stages: The first has three years and the children study the grades first to third, the second stage has three years and the children study the grades fourth to sixth, and the last stage is where children study the grades seventh to eleventh.

The fourth level “superior education” is where the students can study in universities, polytechnics, Institutos especiales de Formación e Oficiales de las Fuerzas Armadas. And finally the students can do postgraduate, doctorate, etc.

BY: MARTHA FRANCO

means of transport by Estefania Galvis

Hello Katty,


This letter is for hello to you and all family; I am living in Colombia, Colombia is a wonderful country and her means of transport are very comfortable. In Bogotá (Colombia’s Capital) there is a mean of transport very interesting, this is a “bus” where there is space for many people, this transport is called ”Trasmilenio” and this is red and big and very fast.
I have a friend, she’s name is Laura, she is Venezuelan and she say that in Venezuela there is a meter, the meter is big and faster than the Trasmilenio, the meter is white.
Both transportation means are big and they are very easy of get.

I hope that this good,

Whit darling,


Stephanie