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This is a list of schools in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT), which houses Australia's capital city, Canberra.The Territory's education system consists of primary schools, which accommodate students from Kindergarten to Year 6, high schools, which accommodate students from Years 7 to 10, and secondary colleges, which are specialist Year 11–12 institutions.
Another early school in Canberra is the Ainslie School, it was opened in 1927 in the inner north suburb of Braddon. [8] Canberra University College was opened in 1930 operating as an arm of Melbourne University to provide undergraduate degrees to Canberra. The Australian National University was opened nearby in 1946 as Australia's only research ...
The Canberra Japanese Supplementary School Inc., a Japanese weekend educational programme, holds its classes at Alfred Deakin High, while the school offices are in Yarralumla. It was established on 1 August 1988. [15] The ACT German Language School also holds classes at Alfred Deakin High on Saturday mornings from 9:00am until 11:30am. [16] [17]
The territory has many venues for live music and theatre: the Canberra Theatre and Playhouse which hosts many major concerts and productions; [117] and Llewellyn Hall (within the ANU School of Music), a world-class concert hall are two of the most notable. [118] The Albert Hall was Canberra's first performing arts venue, opened in 1928. It was ...
Regardless of the number of holidays a school decides to have, a school year must have a minimum of 175 working days, or 160 for students undertaking the final exam at the end of high school. Summer break runs from mid-June (typically the 15th/16th) to early September (usually the first Monday in September), usually lasting for 11 weeks.
St Edmund's College, Canberra is an independent Catholic primary and secondary school for boys, located in Griffith, a suburb of Canberra, in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT), Australia. The college was established in 1954 by the Christian Brothers as St Edmund's War Memorial College. It was opened to meet the demand for a Catholic ...
The Canberra College (formerly known as the Phillip College) is an Australian Capital Territory public school, which educates students from year 11 to year 12. In 2022, Simon Vaughan was appointed Principal, taking over from Michael Battenally.
Singapore [68] 11 11 Slovakia [69] 14 15 Slovenia [70] 14 14 South Africa [71] 12 12 South Korea [72] 14 14 Spain [73] 12 13 depending on autonomous community Sri Lanka [74] 25 25 Sweden [75] 12 12 Switzerland [76] 9 15 depending on the canton, including holidays falling on a weekend Taiwan [77] 12 12 Thailand [31] 16 16 Tanzania [78] 16 16 ...