[geeks] education systems around the world

[hike]

Mozambique offers education to its citizens.
It goes into middle school grades (6-8 grades).
BTW, they teach english in the government schools.
surprisingly, most of the school age kids have a nondescript accent (much
like the "mid-west" accent).
Not all the areas/towns have schools but the plan is an universal school
system.

Ecuador also offers education to its citizens.

If news reports are to be believed, Canada, Australia do also.

Russia offers universal education.



On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 12:21 PM, David Brown <dave at bagpuss.nu> wrote:

> UK does, and it is required by law upto the age of 16; as a product of the
> system.
>
>
> On Oct 23, 2008, at 12:19 PM, Michael Parson wrote:
>
>  I just got a call from my sister, asking me if I knew how many other
>> countries provided universal (public/gov't) education to its citizens like
>> the United States does.  I'm not looking for a discussion on the merits of
>> such a system, just if they do such things in the EU, the UK, Israel, Japan,
>> etc.
>>
>> --
>> Michael Parson
>> mparson at bl.org
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> David Brown
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