The education system is an organic whole of all kinds of educational institutions in a country, and it is the sum of all kinds of norms or regulations needed for its normal operation. Including preschool education institutions, school education institutions, amateur education institutions, social education institutions, etc. It also includes the organizational relationship, tasks, organization and management of various institutions. The main body of its establishment is the state, which is the embodiment of the institutionalization of national education policy.

Academic system: the abbreviation of school education system refers to the system of various schools in a country, which stipulates the nature, tasks, admission conditions, study years and the vertical and horizontal relations between them.

There are three basic types of education system: dual-track system (one is academic education and the other is vocational education), single-track system and sub-discipline system.