The federal, province and local governments provide a major part of education is Canada. It funds and over sees the education system. The Canadian education system is normally segregated into primary education system, secondary education system, and post education system. Under the education ministry, there are a numebr of provinces, in which the district school boards manages the educational programs.

In every province in Canada, the education is mandatory for kids up to the age of 16 years apart from New Brunswick and Ontario, where the education is mandatory upto the age of 18 years. In a few provinces, the early education leaving exemptions are given at eh age of 14 under specific conditions. In Canada, normally, there are 190 school days for every year.They formally commence after the Labor Day in the month of September to the June month end.

Canada wide

In Canada, the system of elementary, secondary and post education is a responsibility of the province and there is difference among the regions. The federal departments support the educational fields at different levels. The Indian and Northern Affairs Canada department looks after the education for the first Nations.

Presently, the Junior Kinder garden or corresponding education is a formal education that persists only in Ontario For each province, the kindergarten is offered, but eh number f hours and the provincial funding process varies. Commencing at grade one at the age of six or seven, there is Universal public funded accessibility upto the 12th grade. Based on the province, the mandatory age entry is at 4 to 7 years. The children obliged to attend the school up to the age of sixteen (in New Brunswick and Ontario it is upto the age of eighteen).

The country spends nearly seven percent of its GDP on education. Because of the section 23 of the Constitutional act in the year 1982, both the English medium and French medium of education is available in almost all the places in Canada.

A number of schools have launched innovative initiatives, like courses in Aboriginal cultures & crafts, antiracism, elders and to other community members’ visits, indigenous languages, aboriginal spirituality, native knowledge of nature and indigenous heritage site tours.

Pre University

In Canada, the primary and secondary education is merged and sometimes is called as K-12(kinder garden throughout grade 12).This arrangement differs from school to school and from province to province in which the individual dwells.

Students can also attend the high school up to the age of 19 or 21. The cutoff age differs from province to province. Likewise the high school students are due to any circumstances, if they are suspended or expelled, they can attend the night schools.

The Bishop Carroll high School in Calgary , Alberta, follow a education pattern akin to the university graduate school Unlike other high schools, eh students at Bishop Carroll, do not attend the schools, as an alternative, they attend the lectures and at their own pace work to attain units.

Nowadays the strength of the international students is augmenting pre-university courses at the Canadian high schools such as Columbia International College, which has an enrollment of more than 1200 students all over the globe.

Post –secondary education

The individual provinces and territories are responsible for the post secondary education. A major portion of the funding are offered to public post-secondary institutions by these provincial and territory governments.

In Canada, almost all the post secondary institutions have the right to offer educational credentials (i.e., degrees or diplomas).

Canada boasts of a number of well-known universities. Some of them are

University of Alberta

University of Calgary

Mount Royal University

Capilano University

Quest University

University of Victoria

Crandall University

St. Thomas University

St. Stephen's University