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Formal Education |
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| Formal education includes pre-school education, primary education, secondary education and higher education institutions. |
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 Pre-school Education: Pre-school education is optional and includes the education of children aged 3-5, who are under the age of compulsory primary education. Pre-school is provided by independent nurseries and a variety of ministries and institutions in kindergartens, nurseries and preparatory classes as well as daycare and childcare centers. Nearly 641,000 children attended a total 21,000 pre-school facilities where some 25,000 teachers taught during the 2006-2007 school year. |
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| Primary Education: Primary education comprises the education and training of children between the ages of 6 and 14. Primary education is compulsory for all citizens, boys or girls, and is free of charge in public schools. |
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Work is underway to spread pre-school education
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Primary school education covers training and educating children
between the ages of 6 and 14. |
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Primary education institutions are schools that provide eight years of uninterrupted education, at the end of which graduates receive a primary education diploma. |
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Over 10.8 million students were educated in some 35,000 schools by 403,000 teachers during the 2006-2007 school year. |
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Since the 2003-2004 school year, the textbooks of students of the official primary schools are provided free of charge by the government. |
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For the purpose of providing educational services to children in villages and smaller settlements and children of destitute families, boarding primary schools had been founded. Any and all expenses of the students being educated at the Regional Boarding Primary Schools are being met by the government. Nearly 167,000 students were educated in 603 Regional Boarding Primary Schools (YŻBO) during the 2006-2007 school year. |
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