Educational system in France and in the Czech Republic

1 Summary In the Thesis the author engages is contemporary education which has significantly changed in the last decade. Since the system evolves ceaselessly, he only displays a certain part of its evolution. The author, who is a French Language and Literature student at the Faculty of Education of Charles University, seeks to outline contemporary French educational system on the basis of its juxtaposition with Czech system. In the first chapter he concerns the International Standard Classification of Education ISCED (the French abbreviation is CITE) as a common basis for the systems' comparison. He justifies its use and describes its purpose. He also mentions its history, structure, and uses it in the following chapters as a foundation for definition of individual educational degrees. In the subsequent chapters he focuses on particular schooling stages proceeding from nursery schools to higher secondary education. To maintain a coherent structure of the study, he describes similar criteria and aspects for each of the schooling degrees, such as structure, organisation, students' admission criteria, their certification, evaluation and the content of education. As far as structure is concerned, he focuses on children's age established for each stage and mainly on its organisation. In the part dealing with..