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Education
The Luxembourg constitution confers the State the right to organise and regulate education. As a result, most schools are public and tuition-free. There are some private schools that teach the same subjects, but they are fee-paying. Compulsory education consists of 11 years of schooling : two years of preschool, six years of primary school and three years of secondary school.
Languages
The linguistic situation in Luxembourg is characterized by the practice and recognition of three administrative languages – Lëtzebuergesch, French and German. German is taught from the very first year of primary school, while French is taught the following years. Moreover, German is the main language for primary education, as well as for the first few years of secondary classical and secondary technical education. French, however, is used predominantly in secondary classical education. The number of hours devoted to language teaching accounts for 50% of the total of subjects taught during the entire schooling. During these years, Lëtzebuergesch remains the main teaching language.
Religion
Religious as well as moral and social classes are compulsory during primary and secondary school.
The school system
Early education is aimed at children from the age of 3. It helps children to socialise and immigrant children to integrate properly. This project was introduced at the beginning of the school year 2000/2001. Early education is not compulsory.
Preschool education is compulsory for children over 4 years of age on 1 September of the current year, in accordance with the grand-ducal regulation of 2 September 1992. Primary education lasts six years and is intended for children having reached the age of 6 by 1 September of the current year.
Postprimary education lasts six or seven years depending on the orientation chosen and is split into two sections – secondary education, which concentrates on classical subjects and prepares students for university, and technical secondary education, which offers practical and vocational training.
The University of Luxembourg began its activity at the start of the academic year 2003/2004. It is the legal successor to the various higher education establishments it replaces. Teaching and research are organised in faculties and interdisciplinary centres dealing with subjects that simultaneously relate to several disciplines. A complete university cycle has three study levels, each leading to a different degree. The first level is concluded with a bachelor’s degree, the second with a master’s degree and the third with a PhD. The period of study for the first two levels is five years. In principle, the period for the third level lasts at least three years.
One of the University’s vocations is to contribute to the initial and then continuing educational training of teachers for the Luxembourg school system. Another is to provide the necessary link between teaching and research activities. For that reason, it is involved in fundamental, applied and technological research.
Research activities are carried out through projects implemented by virtue of agreements reached with national and international research institutions, organisations, companies and establishments.
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