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Every citizen of our country has the right to education. This right is guarantied by the Constitution. It is not only a right but a duty too. Every boy or girl must get secondary education. They go to school at the age of six or seven and must stay there until they are 14-17 years old. At school pupils study academic subjects, such as foreign languages. After finishing 9 forms of a secondary school young people can continue their education in the 10th and 11th form. They can also go to a vocational or technical school, where they study academic subjects and receive a profession. A college gives general knowledge in academic subjects and a profound knowledge in one or several subjects.
After finishing a secondary vocational technical school young people can start working or enter an institute or a university. Institutes and universities train specialists in different fields. A course at an institute usually takes 5 years. Many institutes have evening and extramural departments. They give their students an opportunity to study without leaving their jobs. Education in our country is the at most schools. There are a lot of private primary and secondary schools, gymnasiums.
There are also departments where students have to pay for their education. Before 5 some children attend Nursery schools while most children start their basic education in an Infant school, which is the first stage of Primary Education.
From 7 to 11 they attend Junior Schools the second stage of Primary Education (reading, writing and arithmetic, elementary science, information technology). At the age of 11 transfers to Comprehensive (general education and wide range of academic courses) art departments, commercial and domestic courses. There are private schools. They change fees for educating children and many of them are boarding schools of which pupils live during the term time. After leaving school many young people go to colleges of father education.
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