678
edits
Alstin: Difference between revisions
→Education
No edit summary Tag: 2017 source edit |
Tag: 2017 source edit |
||
| Line 262: | Line 262: | ||
==Education== | ==Education== | ||
About 43 per cent of the United Republic population has a university or college degree, which is the highest percentage in Crona, and among the highest percentages in the world. The basic literacy rate is approximately 99%. | |||
Whilst education in Alstin is the responsibility of the Ministry of Education, the day-to-day administration and funding of public schools is the responsibility of local authorities. Universally free of charge state education was introduced piecemeal between 1870 and 1945. Education is now mandatory from ages five to sixteen, and through out the United Republic, all Alstinians must stay in education or training until they are 18. Alstin has many private and public institutions of higher education, with Newton University, Saint Thomas Hobbs Seminary, Vazquez Institute of Medicine, and Altman Institute of Technology being among the most prestigious and notable throughout the Occidental world. | |||
==Culture== | ==Culture== | ||