Assignment # 1

Given by sir. Munawwar Hashmi

Given to Muneeba Shafiq
Topic education system of Germany vs France
• The education system in France and Germany has a lot
in common, but at the same time, there are several
differences.

• Let’s have a look and find what are the similarities and
differences!
France

• Compulsory education (age of 6-16) covers both

elementary education and the first four years (collège)
of secondary education. 

• Children are enrolled in kindergarten by their parents

then automatically enrolled in elementary school. 

• Parents may choose the educational institutions they

wish their children to attend. Children go to
kindergarten or nursery school from the age of three.
•  Generally, parents are expected to enroll their
children in the school near their house
• Public education is free.
 
• If a child has never been to school in France,
enrollment in elementary school takes place at the
school or at the town hall. 

• In Paris, a child aged six and over who does not speak
French is sent by the local town hall to a school where
French-language courses for beginners are available.
Children under six attend regular classes in school.
• Secondary education

• Secondary education for students (16 and over) is

dispensed in secondary schools
• In secondary schools for vocational training.
• Students attend the former establishments for three
years to study for the Baccalaureate général and
Baccalauréat technologique examinations.
• They attend the latter establishments for two years to
study for the Certificat d’aptitude professionnelle –
CAP (vocational training certificate)

• two more years are required to prepare for the

Baccalauréat professional examination.
• Brevet
• Brevet-first official diploma – Not required to enter
high school – Consists of the grades from the final
year and a final exam
• Only French, mathematics, history, and geography
Baccalauréat
• High school diploma
• Needed in order to get into a university or any
professional work
• Refers to the diploma and the exams that go along
with it – Similar to SATs or ACTs
•Higher education
• Higher education is divided into three cycles or stages
1. the Premier cycle, two-year course up to DEUG level
2. the Deuxième cycle, third year up to the licence
followed by the one-year maîtrise
• France : 
http://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/en/the-ministry-of-foreign-affairs-158/protocol/social-matters/article/french-educational-s
ystem
1. the Troisième cycle or higher postgraduate study
beginning with the Diplôme d’études approfondies
(DEA) or with the Diplôme d’études supérieures
spécialisées – DESS.
Germany
• 3 to 6-year-old children in Germany have the
opportunity to attend pre-school institutions (not free).
• The infants are not given formal instruction; instead,
their development and relations with other children are
fostered through play.
• Attendance at Kindergarten is totally voluntary.
• Although, since 1996, every child has had the right to
a place in a Kindergarten, there is still a clear shortfall
of places.
• Normally, schooling begins at the age of six
• In the first year of a Grundschule. Children attend
the Grundschule for 4 years (6 in Berlin and
Brandenburg),
• during which time they learn to read, write and to do
arithmetic.
• In addition, teachers also offer some basic instruction
in social science, history, geography, biology, physics
and chemistry.
• They can try out their creative powers in music, art,
and craft lessons.
• Sport also forms part of the curriculum at
theGrundschule.
• The teaching of foreign languages, which used to take place
exclusively in secondary schools, is now also being offered at more
and more primary schools.
• Most students are taught English at Secondary Level I. When they
finish Secondary Level I.
• students sit the Mittlere Reife examination, which entitles them to start
vocational training, to go to a vocational school at Secondary Level II
or to attend a Gymnasium.
• Reference
• Germany: http://www.ukgermanconnection.org/schools-german-education-system