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Education in Australia is primarily the responsibility of the states and territories. Each state or territory government provides funding and regulates the public and private schools within its governing area. The federal government helps fund the public universities, but was not involved in setting university curriculum.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=What is the Australian education system? )〕 As of 2012, the Australian National Curriculum,〔(http://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/ )〕 under development and trial for several years, has already been adopted by some schools and will become mandatory soon. Generally, education in Australia follows the three-tier model which includes primary education (primary schools), followed by secondary education (secondary schools/high schools) and tertiary education (Universities, TAFE colleges and Vocation Education and Training providers/VET providers). The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2006 evaluation ranked the Australian education system as sixth for reading, eighth for science and thirteenth for mathematics, on a worldwide scale including 56 countries. The PISA 2009 evaluation ranked the Australian education system as sixth for reading, seventh for science and ninth for mathematics, an improvement relative to the 2006 rankings. In 2012, education firm Pearson ranked Australian education as thirteenth in the world The Education Index, published with the UN's Human Development Index in 2008, based on data from 2006, lists Australia as 0.993, amongst the highest in the world, tied for first with Denmark and Finland. Education in Australia is compulsory between the ages of five and fifteen to seventeen, depending on the state or territory, and date of birth.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Education )〕 Post-compulsory education is regulated within the Australian Qualifications Framework, a unified system of national qualifications in schools, vocational education and training (TAFE) and the higher education sector (university). The academic year in Australia varies between states and institutions, but generally runs from late January/early February until mid-December for primary and secondary schools, with slight variations in the inter-term holidays〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=School Term Dates )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=School Calendar )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=South Australian State Schools Term Dates )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Term Dates )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Term Dates – Key Dates )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Term Dates and Public Holidays )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=State Schools Holidays and Qld Public Holidays )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Term dates for Tasmanian Government school students )〕 and TAFE colleges,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Term Dates )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=TAFE Term Dates )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Student calendar )〕 and from late February until mid-November for universities with seasonal holidays and breaks for each educational institute. ==Pre-school== Pre-school and pre-prep programmes in Australia are relatively unregulated, and are not compulsory. The first exposure many Australian children have to learning with others outside of traditional parenting is day care or a parent-run playgroup. This sort of activity is not generally considered schooling, as pre-school education is separate from primary school in all states and territories, except Western Australia where pre-school education is taught as part of the primary school system. In Queensland, pre-school programmes are often called Kindergarten or Pre-Prep, and are usually privately run but attract state government funding if run for at least 600 hours a year and delivered by a registered teacher. Pre-schools are usually run by the state and territory governments, except in Victoria, South Australia and New South Wales where they are more often run by local councils, community groups or private organisations.〔 Pre-school is offered to three- to five-year-olds; attendance numbers vary widely between the states, but 85.7% of children attended pre-school the year before school. The year before a child is due to attend primary school is the main year for pre-school education. This year is far more commonly attended, and may take the form of a few hours of activity during weekdays. Responsibility for pre-schools in New South Wales and Victoria, lies with the Department of Education and Communities and the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development (DEECD), respectively. In all other states and territories of Australia, responsibility for pre-schools lie with the relevant education department.〔 The average net cost (taking into account the Child Care Benefit and Child Care Tax Rebate entitlements) for a long day care in Australia is $3.85 per hour,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=CHILD CARE )〕 or a net cost of around $46 a day for a long day care service offering 12-hour days. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Education in Australia」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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