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Switzerland : Curricula (age 3-19)

• 5.1 First phase: Pre-compulsory, age 4/5 - 6/7
• 5.2 Second phase: Primary, age 6/7-10/12+
• 5.3. Third phase: Lower secondary, age 10/12+-16
• 5.4. Fourth phase: Upper secondary, age 16-18/19

Last updated: 02-Apr-2008

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The Swiss Conference of Cantonal Directors of Education has embarked on a ‘harmonisation’ project, which will define national standards for mathematics, languages and sciences for students in compulsory level education throughout Switzerland. Known as 'Project HarmoS', it has three distinct phases:

• In the first phase, national standards are to be developed for languages (mother tongue and foreign languages), mathematics and science.
• In the second, levels of competence to be achieved at the end of Years 2, 6 and 9 are to be defined.
• At the same time, standards will be developed for other subjects such as history and politics, geography, music, and sport. ⁴⁵
   
  

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