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The Spanish Baccalaureate (Spanish: Bachillerato, pronounced [baʧiʎeˈɾato] ⓘ) [a] is the post-16 stage of education in Spain, comparable to the A Levels in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, Highers in Scotland, the French Baccalaureate in France or the International Baccalaureate.
Basque Country historically provided three teaching models: A, B or D. [20] Model D, with education entirely in Basque, and Spanish as a compulsory subject, is the most widely chosen model by parents. [21] In addition, Navarre offers the G model, with education entirely in Spanish, without a Basque language subject option. [22]
It is meant to include only free-standing universities or satellite campuses, not programs by which one may study abroad at a non-American university. American-style colleges and universities outside the United States
Selectividad (Spanish pronunciation: [selektiβiˈðað]) is the popular name given to the Spanish University Admission Tests ("Evaluación de Bachillerato para Acceso a la Universidad", E.B.A.U. or Ev.A.U.), a non-compulsory exam taken by students after secondary school, necessary to get into University.
In 2008 the Center for Applied Linguistics conducted an extensive survey documenting foreign language study in the United States. [15] The most popular language is Spanish, due to the large number of recent Spanish-speaking immigrants to the United States (see Spanish in the United States). According to this survey, in 2008 88% of language ...
An academic discipline or field of study is known as a branch of knowledge. It is taught as an accredited part of higher education. A scholar's discipline is commonly defined and recognized by a university faculty. That person will be accredited by learned societies to which they belong along with the academic journals in which they publish ...
A Cuban college membership card depicting the phrase "La Universidad es para los Revolucionarios" (Spanish for: "University is for the Revolutionares") in the upper left corner. A 1998 study by UNESCO reported that Cuban students showed a high level of educational achievement. Cuban third and fourth graders scored 350 points, 100 points above ...
The University of Delaware is credited with creating the first study abroad program designed for U.S. undergraduate students in the 1920s.. A few decades later, Professor Raymond W. Kirkbride of the University of Delaware, a French professor and World War I veteran, won support from university president Walter S. Hullihen to send students to study in France in their junior year.