About German education system -1-

-The Affairs of some foreign schools-

This time, I introduce about some detail about German and other countries' education system.
Moreover, there are many details about international schools.
This web is written in Japanese, but the contents are very useful and rich, so I'm sure they will help you.

These following sentences are like memos from the web page.

-The period of compulsory education:
6 ~ 18 years (From First grade student to Twelve grade student)
-Before the compulsory education:
Children can go to Krippe (nursery school) and Kindergarten. (Not mandatory)
The rate of entering there (All Germany):
*Krippe = 36.3%
*Kindergarten = about 90%


-School usually starts on August 1 and finish on July 31.
German school has two terms, Autumn Semester (A.S.) and Spring semester (S.S.)
A.S.: From August 1 to January 31
S.S.: From February 1 to July 31

-German education system is different from each states
Because Germany is federate country.
But there are some common points. (Examples in Berlin)
*Children from 6-9 years must go to school. (Compulsory education)
*After the primary education, children go to secondary school.
(*There are three kinds of secondary school. )
*People who passed Abitur (kinds of qualification for admission to university).
*Public school (except an university) doesn't press any money(except textbooks).

-The compulsory education sysetm and the rate of entering school in Berlin
Basic school: Age (6~12), [First grade to Sixth grade], the rate: 99%
*Gymnasium: Age (12~16), [Seventh grade to tenth grade], the rate : 100%


*Gymnasium is devided into 4 kinds of school:
Reference (Web site) : German Education system (Written in Japanese)
[Gymnasium]: It is the (usually eight-year) school for students to take Abitur.
[Realschule]: It is a four-year or six-year school following Basic school. The school is for students to enter a High technical school.
[Hauptschule]: It is a self-centered education agency following Basic school.
[Intergrierte Gesamtschule]: It is a school education center coordinating upper three kinds of schools.

German Embassy

Deutsche Botschaft Tokyo

The upper hyper-link takes you German Embassy for Japanese.
ON this site, we find some basic information of Germany and get some samples of pamphlets.

For example, next hyper links are about German life, school, politics.
Example 1 [For elementary school or junior high school students] (PDF file)
Example 2 [For over high school students] (PDS file)

When you want to get some pamphlets, the Embassy will send you them.
(They are not free.)

The start of my blogging

On this blogsite, I will write some contents of some reference websites to support my sotsuron topic during this year.