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The Ministry is also responsible for setting curriculum, or as it is officially referred to, programs of study. There were 690,844 students in K–12 enrolled in Alberta as of the 2014/2015 school year. [16] In accordance with the School Act children are required to attend school from age 6 to 16, roughly kindergarten to Grade 11. [17]
Grade 7, including the subjects reading, writing, and mathematics. [10] Grade 8, including the subjects reading, writing, and mathematics. [10] Grade 12 Provincial Tests — taken in some grade 12 level courses. Exam mark is worth 30% of final course grade except for Essential Mathematics test which is worth 20%. [11]
In October 2009, Alberta Education decided to eliminate the written response (Part A) for Biology 30, Chemistry 30, Pure Mathematics 30, Applied Mathematics 30, Physics 30, and Science 30. This saved the Alberta government 1.7 million dollars in producing the exams and paying teachers to mark them in Edmonton, the capital of Alberta.
Alberta Education (also known as the Ministry of Education) is the Albertan ministry responsible for early childhood education, primary education, and secondary education in Alberta. This is one of the original portfolios in the Government of Alberta: the first Minister of Education was part of the original cabinet in 1905, and that title ...
The Alberta Library (TAL) is a not-for-profit library consortium, created in 1997, consisting of 50 member libraries and library systems in over 300 locations in the Canadian province of Alberta. [1] Members include public, post-secondary, government and special libraries.
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Canada spends about 5.2% of its GDP on education in 2020. [46] The country invests heavily in tertiary education (more than US$20,000 per student). [47] Recent reports suggest tuition fee increases across all provinces ranging from a low of .3% in Ontario to a high of 5.7% in Alberta due to a provide-wide restructuring of fees. [48]
Level 2, approaching government standards (C; 60–69 percent) Level 1, well below government standards (D; 50–59 percent) The grading standards for A− letter grades changed in September 2010 to coincide with a new academic year. The new changes require a higher percentage grade by two or five points to obtain an A or A+ respectively.