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  2. Education in Germany - Wikipedia

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    Sign of different coexisting school types on a school complex in Germany. Education in Germany is primarily the responsibility of individual German states (Länder), with the federal government only playing a minor role. While kindergarten (nursery school) is optional, formal education is compulsory for all children from the age of 6-7. Details ...

  3. Educational policies and initiatives of the European Union

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    The first phase of Erasmus Mundus will finish in 2008. The commission has announced its intention to propose a further period. Europe Study Centre (ESC) has lately come up as a reputed and dependable company in Indian providing end to end services in the European overseas education field helping Indian students to avail the Erasmus Mundus benefits.

  4. List of autonomous areas by country - Wikipedia

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    An autonomous area is defined as an area of a country that has a degree of autonomy, or has freedom from an external authority. It is typical for it to be geographically distant from the country, or to be populated by a national minority. Countries that include autonomous areas are often federacies. [1]

  5. List of primary education systems by country - Wikipedia

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    Basic education (primary education) in Latvia goes from ages 7 to 16 years old and include grades 1 through 9. Primary education is mandatory and free of cost for students. [18] The purpose of basic education (primary education) in Latvia is to provide students with the basic knowledge and skills that are needed for their everyday lives.

  6. Humboldtian model of higher education - Wikipedia

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    Humboldt's model was based on two ideas of the Enlightenment: the individual and the world citizen.Humboldt believed that the university (and education in general, as in the Prussian education system) should enable students to become autonomous individuals and world citizens by developing their own powers of reasoning in an environment of academic freedom.

  7. European Higher Education Area - Wikipedia

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    The European Higher Education Area (EHEA) was launched in March 2010, during the Budapest-Vienna Ministerial Conference, on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the Bologna Process. As the main objective of the Bologna Process since its inception in 1999, the EHEA was meant to ensure more comparable, compatible and coherent higher education ...

  8. List of countries by federal system - Wikipedia

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    Federal states of Germany. Germany and the European Union present the only examples of federalism in the world where members of the federal "upper houses" (the German Bundesrat, i.e. the Federal Council; and the European Council) are neither elected nor appointed but comprise members or delegates of the governments of their constituents. The ...

  9. Region (Europe) - Wikipedia

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    The European Union created a Committee of the Regions to represent Regions of Europe as the layer of EU government administration directly below the nation-state level. The committee has its headquarters in Brussels. Reasons given for this include: the historic and cultural claims for autonomy in many regions all over the EU