
Canada's education level is among the best in the world, which is also an important reason why many Chinese study in Canada. Immigrants to Canada can enjoy their free education, children from preschool until high school graduation are all free. Immigrants with children can not only enjoy free education in Canada, but also receive Canada child benefits(CCB). Children are not a burden at all. This is completely different from the current situation where raising children in China and India costs hundreds of thousands.
Overall, the Canadian education system is divided into three stages:
1. Pre-school education: 3-6 years old, mainly composed of government-funded nurseries and kindergartens. The teachers are all highly trained and highly qualified teachers with university diplomas and professional licenses. There are also privately run fee-based nurseries and kindergartens (about $600-800 per month), but they must also be taught by someone with a government license. This ensures that the children's education is professional and scientific.
2. Secondary school: Canada implements compulsory primary and secondary education, and children are free from preschool until graduation from high school. Primary and secondary schools are not divided into key schools and non-key schools, but go to school according to the area where students live. If students want to choose to enter a good school, they only need to move into the area where the school belongs, and do not need to use higher academic performance as a stepping stone. Since Canada does not have a unified national college entrance examination system for life, the university is completely determined by the usual academic performance and personal ability, so students do not have a lot of learning pressure, and they study in a relaxed and voluntary learning environment. Students' personalities can be fully displayed.
3. Universities: There are many world-renowned universities in Canada, such as: McGill University, University of Toronto, UBC , Queen's University and University of Waterloo, all of which are among the top 30 in North America. Most high school graduating students can attend colleges of their choice based on their usual academic performance and volunteering. Going to a university is not like having a safe to hang around with. University education adopts a policy of lenient entry and strict exit. If there are two failures in a semester, they will be eliminated. Students who are eliminated can change majors, transfer schools, or go to a college or receive some kind of skill training to get employment as soon as possible.
Generally speaking, the vast majority of Canadian students can look for jobs after graduating from college or university, and only a few can continue to study for graduate or doctoral degrees, because they think that the theoretical knowledge they have learned is enough to find a job . If you want to get further improvement, you can only increase your practical work experience in actual work. Because practical work experience is more important than theoretical knowledge in books from a certain point of view, only a few people who are extremely interested in scientific research and want to be scientists and have research talent go further to graduate and doctoral studies. And indeed many of these people will become genius scientists.
Chinese students who want to go to Canada for university or postgraduate study can be recognized for their courses in China. Generally, they only need to pass the English test (IELTS 6 points or more) to apply for admission to Canadian universities or postgraduates.