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Education In Canada In the 17th century education was usually an informal process in which skills and values were passed from one generation to the next by parents, relatives and older siblings. Four hundred years later, informal learning has become an adjunct to extensive systems of formal schooling under the jurisdiction of provincial governments. During the French regime in Canada, the process of learning was integrated into everyday life. The family was the basic unit of social organization and the main context within which almost all learning took place. Formal instruction for females was quite limited and usually did not extend beyond religious instruction and skills such as needlework. The history of education in Canada, as in other Western countries, has involved the growth of formal instruction funded by taxes and supervised by the state. This growth resulted from concern about cultural, moral and political behavior, from changing concepts of childhood and the family, and from the general reorganization of society into institutions. Canadian children attend kindergarten for one or two years at the age of four or five on a voluntary basis. All children begin Grade One at about six years of age. The school year normally runs from September through the following June but in some instances, January intake dates are possible. Secondary schools go up to Grades 11or 12, depending on the province. Students may attend university, college or General and Vocational Education, and is two years of general or three years of technical education between high school and university. Canadian higher education institutions are divided into College (University) College (University) College, University, community College (College), vocational and technical Col