Sydney Mardi Gras
The annual LGBT festival in Sydney, Australia, is the Sydney Mardi Gras. With foreign and domestic visitors, Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras is one of Australia’s main tourist attractions. The three-week LGBT Festival, held for the last 40 years in Sydney, celebrates pride, self-expression, and passion, is among the best festivals in Australia.
Vivid Sydney Winter Festival
Vivid Sydney is Sydney’s leading winter exhibition, a yearly festival of light and music and ideas celebrated in Sydney. It contains local and foreign musicians’ performances. The event is held in May and June. Vivid Sydney is a mix of light-sculptures and immersive digital work and a forum for the sharing of ideas through collective discussions and discussions with leading designers.
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Australian Education System
Education system in Australia
The Education System in Australia consists of a total of 12 years. Primary schools and high schools are based on the age of the student, so that every room has the same age group, with a student hardly having to repeat a year. The s tudents with problems in their studies may be put into special classes to help with academic deficits. The majority of the children start in the primary school with the age of 5 years (year 1) and the child studies in the primary school until they are around 12 years old ( year 7).
For primary and secondary education, government schools educate approximately 60 per cent of Australian students, with approximately 40 per cent in non-government schools. At the tertiary level, the majority of Australia's universities are public, and student fees are subsidised through a student loan program where payment becomes due when debtors reach a certain income level.
Underpinned by the Australian Qualifications Framework, implemented in 1995, Australia has adopted a national system of qualifications, encompassing higher education, vocational education and training (VET), and school-based education. For primary and secondary schools, a national Australian Curriculum has been progressively developed and implemented since 2010.
Australia is a leading global provider of education to international students, and in 2012 was ranked as the third-largest provider of international education after the United States and the United Kingdom. Australia has the highest ratio of international students per head of population in the world by a large margin, with 812,000 international students enrolled in the nation's universities and vocational institutions in 2019.
The Education Index, published with the UN's Human Development Index in 2018, based on data from 2017, listed Australia as 0.929, the second-highest in the world.
In 1966 the Australian Government signed the Convention against Discrimination in Education, which aimed to combat discrimination and racial segregation in the field of education.
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