Education+system+in+New+Zealand+by+Kerrie

New Zealand Uni Percentage U.S./Canadian Uni Grade
 * Formal education is offered free to all New Zealanders from ages 5 to 17.
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 * All schools operare around a frameworkof national curiculum including engish, science, mathematics, social sciences, arts, health, and physical education.
 * Most New Zealand children attend school from age five through age sixteen or beyond. School is compulsory from age six through sixteen. A typical structure of school progression in Palmerston North is primary school (years 1-6), intermediate school (years 7-8) and high school (years 9-13).
 * New Zealand has an excellent government funded education system that is free until the age of 19. There are also many options for children of pre-school age and a wide variety of universities and institutes of technology for tertiary level study. For more information on the education system in New Zealand:
 * A high level of tertiary education is available within New Zealand including universities, institutes of technology and polytechnics, all of which are public institutions. There is also a huge variety of private training facilities and organisations, which include many language schools catering to international students. A Bachelor’s degree from a New Zealand university is equivalent of both the British Bachelor’s (Ordinary) degree and the Australian Bachelor’ degree award.
 * New Zealand Uni Grade

A+, A, A- 100% - 80% A

B+, B, B-

79% - 65% B

C+, C, C- 64% - 50% C

D 49% - 40% F

E 39% - 0% F

Aegrotat Pass N/A Pass

W Withdraw No Credit To learn more about the New Zealand education system: [|www.immigration.co.nz/life-in-new-zealand-for-migrants/new-zealands-education-system.html] [] [] [] []

Rob- Is it free? No about 100 dollars a year Do they educate everyone? Yes Is there a national curriculum? No. each district has a school board that decides is school mandatory? Yes from 6 to 17