Ensayo Comparativo Entre El Sistema Educacional Chileno Y Australiano (En Inglés)

Nowadays Education is a topic that everyone is talking about. Students are asking for improvements and to reorganize the whole educational structures all around the globe. One clever thing to do when looking for good ideas in every kind of topic is to watch people or institutions that have already succeeded in that mission. Australia is an example on education matters and every country that lookfor enhance its education system should study the Australian education system. Why Australia have so good results on Education? What are they features? Why it is so admired worldwide? In order to understand they success on education we can make comparisons with our country, Chile, educational system features.
According to the Australian government, when planning their goals on education they tryto emphasize the practical nature of public education and embrace education as a comprehensive process of the student. What does this statement means is that classes do not limit up to lessons inside a class room but goes farther. That teacher must give students notions about how to apply what they have just learned on real life. That student must understand that all subjects are linked togetheras a whole no matter that they study them separated. That everyone above the student within an educational institution must treat students as an individual in a learning process that goes from classes subjects to values and everything among those two.
At first sight it may seems obvious and you might think that every school should think that way and that they actually do, but probably that’s nottrue. Although theoretically they should act and think that way, the reality is that most schools and educational institutions have other priorities than students and their learning process.
In our country, Chile, educational institutions concerns on making money have marred their ways to manage an institution and to give students an integral education.
In contrast with Chile, it seems thatAustralia have forged a culture in which the respect on students and they learning process have leaded Australia to an educational system that every country should be jealous about.
In April 1999, State, Territory and Commonwealth Ministers of Education met as the Ministerial Council on Education, Employment, Training and Youth Affairs in Adelaide. At that meeting, Ministers endorsed a new set ofNational Goals for Schooling in the Twenty-First Century. The new goals were released in April 1999 as The Adelaide Declaration on National Goals for Schooling in the Twenty-First Century. In this declaration, they emphasize the importance of School education as a basic feature of future citizens, taken it as knowledge, values and skills. They also insisted on the school education role as a learningcommunity in which parents, students and teachers must cooperate together.
They are also constantly trying to improve teaching profession status and quality, to develop new evaluations systems and educational accreditation. So, Australia educational system, in contrast with Chilean system, is always moving forward, they do not stop and keep doing the same over the years but constantly trying toimprove and change.
Australia is an example on higher education. Its model has gone beyond because it presents achievements that attract attention to other countries. In example, they included technical and vocational education on high school and this is a common point with Chilean educational system, the difference lay on the attendance and permanence on class rooms which in Australia actuallyincreased. Bad quality workshops and unmotivated teachers might be factors responsible of Chilean bad results. But Australia good results go further; with this system they also reduced youth unemployment,
Australian technical and technological education popularity is growing bigger; because it satisfies industry requirements and students necessities. Technical and vocational education in...