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Education system in Latvia
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Governance of the Education System

• Education system is administered at three levels
• - national,
• - municipal,
• - institutional.

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• The Parliament (Saeima), the Cabinet of Ministers
  and the Ministry of Education and Science are the
  main decision-making bodies at a national level.
• The Ministry of Education and Science is the
  education policy-making institution.
• It also issues the licenses for opening
  comprehensive education institutions and sets
  educational standards.

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Education System in Latvia

• It is divided into several levels and types
• Pre-school education,
• Basic education,
• Special needs education,
• Vocation oriented education,
• Secondary education,
• Higher education,
• Post graduate education,
• Adult education.

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Pre-school education

• It is for children aged 2-6
• From 5-6 pre-school education is compulsary to
  everyone.
• Children aged 5-6 have to attend either
  kindergarten or any general educational
  establishment that provides pre-school
  programmes.

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Basic education

• It is compulsory from 7-16 (18).
• The curriculum is determined by the national
  basic education standard.
• The Ministry of Education and Science supervises
  and determines the content
• of the final national examinations.

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Basic education

• Pupils receive a Certificate of the basic
  education and a statement of records.
• That gives them an admission for further
  education and training in secondary level
  educational programmes.
• The certificate of the basic education
• can receive only those students
• who have received evaluation
• in all compulsory school subjects,
• national tests and examinations.

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Special needs education

• It provides education for children with special
  needs.
• The education depends on their individual
  health condition.

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Vocation oriented education

• Vocation oriented education in arts and music
  is voluntary and provides for a persons
  individual educational needs and wishes.

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Secondary education

• There are two types of secondary education
  programmes
• general secondary,
• vocational secondary education and training
  programmes.

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General secondary education

• The compulsory curriculum of 3-year general
  secondary school is determined by the National
  Standard in the following profiles
• - general comprehensive,
• - humanitarian / social,
• - mathematics / natural science / technical,
• - vocational / professional
• (arts, music, business, sports).

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General secondary education

• All educational programmes must contain 8
  compulsory and 3-6 selected subjects according to
  the profile.
• Schools can offer some optional subjects that
  take no more than 10-15 of the total study time.
• At the end of the third year all students have to
  
• take 4 centralized national examinations,
• the content and procedure of which are
• determined by the Ministry of Education and
• Science and approved by the Cabinet of
  Ministers.

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General secondary education

• All students, who have received a positive
  assessment (4 10) in all subjects according to
  the chosen profile and the national examinations
  and a certificate of the passed centralized exams
  got a Certificate of the secondary education.
• A Certificate of the secondary education
• provides the right to continue education in
• any higher-level education programme.

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General secondary education

• If the student has not received an evaluation in
  one or more subjects or national examination,
  he/she receives a school report.
• A school report does not provide the right to
  continue education in any higher-level education
  programme.

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Vocational education andtraining programmes

• Different vocational education and training
  programmes are developed and offered for all
  branches of the national economy of Latvia.
• Majority vocational education schools in Latvia
  provide 4 and 3 year vocational education and
  training programmes.
• Only some programmes are designed for the basic
  vocational education and training purposes.

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Higher education

• There are two kinds of higher education in
  Latvia
• Academic higher education,
• Professional higher education.

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Academic higher education

• Programmes are based upon fundamental and applied
  science.
• Passing exams and development of Bachelors or
  Masters Paper are integral part of the academic
  higher education.
• Duration of Bachelors studies may be
• 3-4 years. Masters degree is awared after
• at least 5 years studies.

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Professional higher education

• There are two levels of professional higher
  education
• The first level of professional higher education
  or college education (2-3 years).
• The second level of professional higher
• education leading to a professional
• Bachelors degree that can be followed
• by further 1-2 years of professional Masters
• studies.

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Postgraduate education

• Masters degree is required for admission to
  doctoral studies (Ph.D.).
• Doctoral studies last 3-4 full-time years.
• They include advanced studies of the subject in a
  relevant study programme and a scientific
  research towards doctoral thesis.
• The Council of Science appoints Promotion Council
  and sets the procedures for award of Doctors
  degrees. 

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Tuition fee 

• The tuition at pre-school, basic and secondary
  education in a state or municipality founded
  educational establishments is funded from the
  national or municipal budget.
• Private educational institutions set a tuition
  fee for providing education.
• In higher education programmes the state covers
• tuition fees for a certain number of
  students
• places, others have to pay.

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Grading system 

• Educational achievements are assessed in a
  ten-point system
• 10 with distinction (izcili),
• 9 excellent (teicami),
• 8 very good (loti labi),
• 7 good (labi),
• 6 almost good (gandriz labi),
• 5 satisfactory (viduveji),
• 4 almost satisfactory (gandriz viduveji),
• 3 weak (vaji),
• 2 very weak (loti vaji),
• 1 very very weak (loti,loti vaji). 

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Adult education

• It includes all types of formal, non-formal and
  informal education including further and interest
  education, professional upgrading and in-service
  training.
• It is provided to satisfy needs in lifelong
  education process to support personal development
  and competitiveness in the labour market
  regardless
• of persons age and previous education.

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Education in Olaine
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Educational institutions

• 2 secondary schools
• 5 kindergartens (1 private)
• Music and art school
• Mechanical and technological college

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• Olaine Secondary School No 1
• with a structural unit Olaine Elementary School

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• Subordinated to Olaine Region Council

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• Students 817
• Teachers 75
• Technical staff 34

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Programmes

• Pre-school programme(5-6) compulsory
• Basic education programme (7-15)
• compulsory
• Basic education programme for minorities (7-10)
• Comprehensive general secondary education
  programme (16-19)
• without particularly emphasised subjects
• Hobby education programme

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A school year

• usually from 1 September to 31 May
• 35 weeks long (grades 2-8, 10-11)
• 34 weeks long (grade 1)
• 34 weeks long 4 weeks for exams(grade 9)
• 34 weeks long 5 weeks for exams(grade 12)

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Hobby education

• Folk dance
• Vocal ensembles
• Newspaper
• The first aid ABC
• Books design
• Theatre
• Self-expression creativity
• Astronomy
• Sports (basketball, volleyball, floorball,
  mountain climbing)

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