Posted by Look386

45 Comments

  1. Isnt lowering mandatory school age just a cheat to make HDI count higher and forcing parents to send childrens to the kindergarten insthead of making it an optional?

  2. Galilaeus_Modernus on

    Finland doesn’t even start until age 7? One of the most successful education systems in the world also.

  3. VirtuteECanoscenza on

    If only it was possible to somehow mark gibiltar with a different color to indicate a different age…

  4. The key implies that Gibraltar is part of the UK, but it isn’t. It’s a British Overseas Territory.

  5. Next-Wrap-7449 on

    Bulgaria is wrong. There is preschool at 5-7 before starting school at 7. But preschool is part of kindergarten that starts at 3. Before that you have daycare from 1 yo to 3

  6. YourFaveNightmare on

    Worst colour scale in the history of colour scales. And I’m a colour scaleologist, so I should know.

  7. Leading_Movie9093 on

    Wow, 3 years in France!

    Also, is there a reason why so many maps have such a narrow colour spectrum? It would be much nice to have a broader range, e.g. yellow to green to blue.

    This is s serious question. I absolutely LOVE maps but I don’t always understand colour because of sensory processing issues. Thanks to whomever responds.

  8. Real-Pomegranate-235 on

    In the UK it really depends on what month you were born, I was 4 when I had to enter.

  9. Awful, awful colour scale

    Also Gibraltar shouldn’t be referred to as “like the rest of the UK” because it is in fact not part of The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

  10. Spain (and others) is wrong. The year group is by natural year, so kids start the year “they turn” 6, but a big minority have to enter mandatory school at 5.

    Then other comments make an incorrect assumption. All free schools have classes for younger kids, it’s just not mandatory, it becomes so the school year in which the kid will turn 6

  11. I feel like some of those have different definition of “school”, like if kindergarten counts or not

  12. Ok-Suggestion3692 on

    In Belgium, kids can go to school between age of 2.5 to 3 years, and most kids do.
    It becomes mandatory after a couple of years.

  13. > (in Gibraltar it’s not 5 years like the rest of UK , but it’s 4 years)

    Strictly speaking, Gibraltar’s not part of the UK. It’s controlled by the British crown as a separate, distinct entity in the same sense that the UK and the crown dependencies are.

  14. Another map that seems to think Gibraltar is part of the UK (see the chart to the top left).

    Gibraltar is a British Overseas Territory, not a part of the UK.