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Michael 10th April 2005 |
Lee -- The quality of education in Australia is generally quite high. About 33% of Australian secondary students attend private schools. The only subject that's mandated right through is English. |
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Ian Graham Staff Editor 21st April 2005 |
Nasser, the Arab countries with the longest school life expectancy are Bahrain and Tunisia at 13.5 years, followed by Qatar at 13.1 years and Lebanon at 12.8 years. The lowest is Djibouti at 3.4 years. To see all the Arab countries, view the complete school life expectancy list here. |
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Svest 24th May 2005 |
"Most educated" is not the right description for high school life expectancy. It is confusing for someone who would not read your definition above. Your link is still "Most educated". Wouldn't be something like longest education career better? |
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Jonathan 31st May 2005 |
Donovon, according to a poll taken in 2004 59% of US students need more than 30 seconds to find Canada on a map. |
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sic 6th July 2005 |
Yes, but Canada has a higher students in university per capita than the rest of the world. In fact more go off to university than college. |
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Anon 1st August 2005 |
I did my tertiary education in Australia, and I'm extremely surprised that Australia was the third highest country in terms of education. In terms of access to education, yes many students do get it. However, the actual education that is provided at (public) schools there is preposterous. I have known Australians who weren't even taught their times tables at school, who didn't learn how to write essays properly (one girl at university actually wrote 'the end' at the end of her paper), and others who said "who's Kofi Annan?” This was apparently at one of Australia’s most prestigious universities, and the Annan comment came from a girl attempting a politics class (I don't think she made passed that class). I realize that my experiences don't count for the entire nation, but on the whole my jaw dropped when I realized that many local university students in my classes couldn't even get their act together for the simplest assignments. I was an international student and have experienced the negativity international students get from many local students first hand. To Hudson therefore, I suggest that when you go to University, you think really carefully about why it is international students work extremely hard when studying in your beautiful country. I'll give you a head start: 1) We work extremely hard to get into your system due to our foreign education results, 2) We have to pay a lot of money to be able to attend your universities due to higher fees, 3) We don't get any benefits like student fees for public transportation which local students do, and 4) We don't have our parents to back us up in terms of living at home, etc. So yes, you're right, international students (in general of course) might be more studious than the local population of students attending either school or university. But we still have fun enjoying and exploring the amazing country that is Australia. However, whilst I know that we DO actually know how to have fun (and no that does not include having to get wasted every day of the week which is what too many people seem to think university is for), most international students took their studies seriously. We didn’t spend a fortune just to go to the beach everyday, and we certainly all had to pay a damn lot of attention in high school and make something out of ourselves to get where we are today. It’s mostly students from small towns in Australia who hold our international backgrounds and high priorities for getting high-quality education that gave us international students a hard time. I find your comment somewhat inconsiderate and not thought out well enough; you’re in year 11, you really should know better. |
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RLSB 19th September 2005 |
In the southern USA we have students who spends 12 years in school and still can't read. They are passed along because of age. Many can't spell or understand what they read. The number of years served in a school system doesn't mean the country is smarter. It really depends on whether or not the students are learning; It depends on whether they understand . We can all memorize things, but it is the understanding that counts. If we can't read , we depend on others to read for us. If we can't understand what we read or understand events, how to come to a conclusion and understand results, then what have we learned? Sure ,we have some very (smart)educated people, but we have some very dumb (educated) people also. More education does not mean more knowledge. Understanding what we are being taught measures our knowledge. |
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Educated and amazed 10th February 2006 |
To Indians and others, please check the Indian Ministry of Education website for some interesting statistics: http://www.education.nic.in/htmlweb/edusta.htm For example literacy rate is just 65.38% (2001). |
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Kristie Hicks 6th April 2006 |
My opinion on this matter that people are not all equal, there for it means that we are not all capable at activities which consists certan other parts of activities or projects that one person is capaple compared to another which may not be such as capable to do that activity. This includes education, which is a main priority in some countries as you should have seen on the chart about Education as a title. I believe that a so called "illiterate" has just as much potential than a person that can read and can write as well. Considering the fact that yes, they may be in University which i find that very difficult to believe, but yes it seems to be true on some accounts. That may have just been with luck. Who loses in that situation? where one is from a different country and is not offered so much support as a person in there own country and that person in there own home land which cannot apparantley read or write, is frustrationg to the other from another country is farely understood. Some people might just have to move countries to figure out what the problem with their society, or maybe that person does not need to be able to read to learn, they can visualise the information recieved and store it. Where people whom are capable of using that part of the brain that is capable of writing down information because of the concentration level on that side of the activity is able to put their information down on paper and is able or maybe not able to store it in their memory block. Making them smarter or not. It is up to the person themselves to know their own level of capabilities and what strength they have to use on that side of their life if they chose. I am not saying that they should go ahead and move to a different part of the world I am just saying tat one is never the same as the other and that is why it is such a challenge for both to understand one another. Maybe the circumstances is unfair, but that maybe for the "illiterate" just as much as the none "illiterate" It does not differ. THAT LAST SENTENCE IS MY OPINION SO DO NOT USE IT AGAINST MY EXCPENCE PLEASE!!! |
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Chris (Wisconsin) 6th March 2007 |
I believe the U.S. has a lot of work to do to start improving our intelligence as a whole. To be a superpower and not be up in at least the top five for any of the subjects on education, i mean look at our geography, science, or math! I couldn't hardly believe it! |
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Hendrix (Auzzie) 19th October 2007 |
If there could be a comparison on all aspects of these statistics regarding sperate male and female stats then a seperate both stat that would make student research and general knowledge easier to atain. |
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