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Primary education in Argentina is free and compulsory from ages 5 to 14. Education in Argentina is divided in three phases. The first comprises grades first to ninth, and is called Educación General Básica or EGB (Spanish, "Basic General Education"). EGB is divided in three stages, called ciclos ("cycles"):
EGB I: 1st, 2nd and 3rd school years
EGB II: 4th, 5th and 6th school years
EGB III: 7th, 8th and 9th school years
Once the EGB is completed, the student finishes the mandatory schooling period and can choose to start secondary education, called Polimodal, which usually last two to three more years. The third stage is college education. Argentina’s literacy rate of approximately 98 % is one of the highest in Latin America. Argentina has plenty of national universities and many private universities. |
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