The Education Policy in Canada

Canada

I am most familiar with Canadian Education Policy since I have been working for more than 6 years to have a better education system in Myanmar (my country). Since 2014, Myanmar government, MOE is trying to adopt the education systems from Singapore and Canadian curriculum, and I was among them as ethnic leader working with National Curriculum Development Team.

Canada is a confederation country with diverse language and culture. Especially, English and France are spoken as their national languages. In additions, there are many more languages such as Spanish, polish, Italian, and Aboriginal language (red Indian). As being known by history of Canada, they have permitted to teach in each language and free to develop their child with different sources of knowledge. Therefore, nowadays, the Canada is one the top countries who success in Education in the world.

Education in Canada is for the most part provided publicly, funded and overseen by federal, provincial, and local governments. Education is within provincial jurisdiction and the curriculum is overseen by the province. Education in Canada is generally divided into primary education, followed by secondary education and post-secondary. Within the provinces under the ministry of education, there are district school boards administering the educational programs. Education is compulsory up to the age of 16 in every province in Canada, except for Manitoba, Ontario and New Brunswick, where the compulsory age is 18, or as soon as a high school diploma has been achieved. In some provinces early leaving exemptions can be granted under certain circumstances at 14. Canada generally has 190 (180 in Quebec) school days in the year, officially starting from September (after Labour Day) to the end of June (usually the last Friday of the month, except in Quebec when it is just before June 24 – the provincial holiday).

It is always to concern the children and run after them. The education must be based on children's needs so that they would interest and learn what they want. Canada is doing all these. Thank you very much for reading this short message.

Source: Quoted from Wikipedia.