356 Education and Science
 
Education and Science 357  
 
   
 
 
  
  
  Formal Education  
 
Formal education includes pre-school education, primary ed-ucation, secondary education and higher education institu-tions.
 
Pre-school Education: Pre-school education is not compulsory and includes the education of children aged 3-5, who are under the age of compulsory primary education. Pre-school education can be provided by independent nurs-eries as well as by variety of ministries and institutions in kindergartens, nurseries or preparatory classes as daycare and  childcare centers  in conjunction  with girls  and schools as implementation clauses. In the 2009-2010 school year, 980,654 children attended a total of 26,681 pre-school insti-tutions where 42,716 teachers were on duty.
 
Primary Education: Primary education comprises the education and training of children between the ages of 6 and 13. Primary education is compulsory for all citizens and is free of charge in public schools. Primary education insti-tutions are  schools  that provide  eight  years  of continuous
 

Pre-school education is available for children 3-5 year age group.

 
 

 

Compulsory Primary education covers 8 years of education.
 
education, at the end of which graduates receive a primary education diploma.
 
In the 2009-2010 school year, 10,916,643 children were ed-ucated in a total of 33,310 schools by 485,677 teachers.
 
The students’ textbooks used in state-run primary schools are provided free of charge by the government.
 
For the purpose of providing educational services to children in villages and smaller settlements and, for children of des-titute families, boarding primary schools (YŻBO) had been founded. Any and all expenses of the students being edu-cated at the Regional Boarding Primary Schools are met by the government. In the 2009-2010 school year, a total of 265,285 students were educated in 574 YŻBOs.
 
Mobile Primary Education is continuing in order to provide better education to students at schools combining different grades and for school age children living in scattered set-tlements with small populations which have no schools. In the 2009-2010 school year, 667,641 students from 23,072 schools were transported to 5,759 central schools, daily.