Education in Argentina - Characteristics

Characteristics

Education in Argentina is divided in three phases. The first comprises grades first to ninth, and is called Educación Primaria Básica or EGB (Spanish, "Basic Primary Education"). EGB is divided in ´two stages, called ciclos ("cycles"):

  1. EPB I: 1st, 2nd and 3rd school years
  2. EPB II: 4th, 5th and 6th school years

Once the EPB is completed, the student finishes the mandatory schooling period, so they must start secondary education. EPB is mandatory to all students, as well as secondary education, according to the National Educational Law established in 2011.

The third stage is tertiary education, which includes both college and university education.

Education is funded by tax payers at all levels except for the majority of graduate studies. There are many private school institutions in the primary, secondary and university levels. Around 11.4 million people were enrolled in formal education of some kind in 2005:

Level Schools Teachers 1 Students
Initial 16,298 79,721 1,324,529
Primary 22,196 289,898 4,683,963
Secondary 22,080 133,225 3,372,411
Vocational 1,870 15,747 509,134
Universities 85 117,359 1,527,310
1 excludes 185,776 teachers not classified by level

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