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Is formal education equivalent to today's academic education?
Formal education refers to the comprehensive and systematic training and training activities provided by educational institutions (schools) recognized by the education department, which are purposeful, organized and planned and undertaken by full-time personnel, with the direct goal of affecting students' physical and mental development. Formal education includes preschool education, primary and secondary education and higher education.

Informal education refers to the process that individuals acquire knowledge, ideas, skills, information and moral cultivation from family, neighbors, libraries, mass media, work and entertainment places under the influence of daily life, productive labor and various educational activities, and is also called "informal" education.

Academic education is to recruit students according to the enrollment plan issued by the Ministry of Education, and to implement teaching according to the teaching plan approved by the competent education department. After students complete their studies, the school will issue graduation certificates and degree certificates uniformly printed by the state.

As far as the current education system in China is concerned, the types of academic education in China can be divided into:

1, basic education: kindergarten (generally accepting school-age children aged 3-6), primary school (generally 6- 12 years old, the current primary school education period is 6 years), and junior high school (generally 12- 15 years old, the current junior high school education period is 3 years). With the improvement of China's development level, it is estimated that by 2020, compulsory education in senior high school will be basically popularized.

2. Vocational education: technical schools, vocational and technical colleges, secondary vocational schools and higher vocational schools; Educate the educated in professional knowledge, skills and professional ethics necessary for engaging in a certain occupation or productive labor.

3. Professional education: secondary specialized schools, junior colleges (junior colleges) and undergraduate courses; The education he received was mainly based on the professional knowledge he taught. Admission requires unified recruitment, and graduation requires a dispatch card (registration card).

4. Postgraduate education: Master students, doctoral students. Scientific research is the main direction.

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