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Australia fair education system Sydney

Article by Michael King Blacktown Fair

Each country has a different educational system, which results in a different academic and professional formation in each part of the world. Australia has been one of the best-educated places in the new era, because of a system that focuses not only on the development of human skills and talents, but also emphasizes essential and universal values that seeks to take students beyond economic wealth, because more than that, they try to achieve a wealth of humanity.

Australia has been dominated as an almost perfect country, with excellent economic possibilities, with friendly and respectful people, with a state-of-the-art infrastructure and also, with clean and shiny streets, but how can this be achieved? Well, the starting point is undoubtedly education, especially its system, which promotes justice before any other aptitude or attitude of the human being, and that is what we will talk about in this article, the education system fair in Australia, although today we will focus on the one its most iconic cities before the world, Sydney.

Firstly, one of the factors that have a major impact on this subject is face-to-face education. Despite the fact that Sydney is a city developed and modernized with the latest technology, and almost 90% of the population has access to the digital channels, their method of education is strengthened in the face-to-face mode and not so much in the virtual mode. While it is true that digital technologies have advanced to such an extent that face-to-face classes can be seen miles away, ie through audiovisual connections via the internet, there is nothing that effectively replaces direct and organic teaching between the educator and the student, a relationship that must have contact and thus develop bonds of commitment, respect, solidarity, honesty and others.

The most difficult and important task for a teacher is based on being able to teach each student, and when I talk about it is that it can adapt to each one and teach it in its own way, a problem that has led the world to create "useless" and "Prodigies", which has no head or tail, because each student is a world, and should be treated and educated in the right way. Of course, it is virtually impossible for a teacher to fit more than 30 students in a classroom and this has been well understood by the educational body of Sydney, and what has he done against this inconvenience? Because it has greatly reduced the number of students per caregiver, to levels that are clearly effective, unique worldwide, we will explain and give you more details.

Since 2013, the average teacher-to-student ratio is five children per caregiver, while 14 is the average for the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). This facilitates the learning and development of each brain, each human being, to promote healthy and balanced competition.

The next point to review is the length of compulsory education, which is one of the highest in the world, having 11 years between primary and secondary. Subsequently universities focus on training professionals ready to work, combining theory and practice perfectly.

If we analyze critically the reason for this academic genius, we must go to the economic stability of the nation, because Australia is one of the countries that invest more in students, something that has worked for more than two generations and has derived in a paradise in every aspect. However, the financial factor is not the only one, because just as Australia invests in education, other countries like Germany, Spain, France, Italy, the United States and others invest in the same way in their homes of study. What makes the difference between Australia and other nations is their spirit to inculcate knowledge and develop more creativity and imagination than memory.

It should be noted that the difference between Australia's spending compared to other countries is remarkable, and here we offer you some figures provided by The Sydney Morning Herald, because in terms of money spent per school student, Australia is the 10th country with the highest expenditure (in order), Luxembourg, Switzerland, Norway, Denmark, the United Kingdom, Austria, Belgium, Sweden and the Netherlands. The OECD average was US $ 122,000 per student.

The next point to consider is the early Australian education, which is evidently demonstrated in Sydney with its greatest splendor, being the most populated city with the highest academic enrollment in the entire oceanic country. So, at what age do children start studying? Well, there is a figure that is bombastic compared to the rest of the world, and is that by 2014 69% of children 3 years old were enrolled in some educational institution, which will be difficult to find in another country. Some question this measure, as many people claim that this takes time from childhood and fun to children; however, there is an answer that fits perfectly in this system of Australia, specifically in the city of Sydney, which says: "there is no time for fun for the child, for this one will have, only that fun will learn always".

In 2014, Australia was the 5th most popular destination among international students, so, you can say that this country is in the top 5 of the best countries to study.

Finally, there is a value that gives identity to this Australian system, equity, one that has brought innumerable debates throughout history, that between equality and equity, although, Sydney seems to have found the answer to this debate, because with equity achieving equality, understanding that equity is deserving and understanding that each person works in a unique way. Competition is one of the factors that most help the success of an equitable system, and for Australian culture and philosophy, equity is justice, since not everyone can be treated in the same way, everyone deserves something different, depending of their acts and conditions.

Sydney has proved to be a world-class example for those countries that rely on rigid and traditional systems, which were created after the industrial revolution and left the organic factor out of classrooms, naturalness and confidence in the student.