Educational System in Spain

This entry could be very long, for this reason I will do it in diferents entries.
 This one, the 1st one, will be about how we get our actual educational system, after many changes in the goberment.


Spain had a very big lateness respect the rest of Europe, in every aspect, obviously education was afeccted also.
The first change was in 1857, when the main aim was to put a limit in the influence that the church had on the school.
After that, a new renovation didnT arrive until 1970, when Spain wanted to be more close to Europe, they stablished the obligatory education from 6 to 14 years.
With the arrive of the Democracy in 1975, we had 3 more educational "renovations" until arrive to L.O.E, our actual system, 2006, after 16 years with the same system (LOGSE).




Now we can stablish the Spainsh Educational System like this:


- Educación Infantil (kindergarten): between 0 and 6 years and no obligatory.
 Until 3 years it is not free, kindergarten used to be private, or, even though they belong to a comunity, families have to pay for it. 
From 3 to 6 years old, they are inside the school, and it is free. 


- Educación Básica (basic education): between 6 to 16 years, which is obligatory and, therefore, free, includding:
            - Primary Education: 6 courses
            - Secondary Education (E.S.O): 4 courses


After that point, appears 2 years more, no obligatory, and we can say that no totally free. 


To sum up this is how are divided grades in the L.O.E system.
In the followings post I will tell you what L.O.E supports, How Primary is stablish and teached, what are the problems in Secondary, and what to do after E.S.O. Also our newest change in the University System  =)






               http://video.google.es/videoplay?docid=-6290028303331244858#
Here your have a video, where you can see how was Spain, during 1939 until 1976,and what the dictatorship wanted to show to the Nation.Also you can see how Franco (Spanish dictator) try to talk in English. 
NO-DO was like a kind of news in shorts films that the TV showed during the dictatorship.
I hope U like it  =)