lunes, 10 de noviembre de 2008

laura murzi

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.

1 comentario:

cony dijo...

Laura,
Both of your texts are very interesting and clear. This is a very good job. In your letter there are some sentences to correct (include verbs).
Keep going.
Constanza Cortés