Template talk:Infobox education in country

Comments
Thanks for the instructions. A few thoughts: -Mariano 10:53, 9 August 2005 (UTC)
 * agency image: instead of [[Image:|120px]] I would ask for a complete image formating, this way, if theres no image available, there will be an empty space and no [[Image:|120px]] text (se Football club infobox).
 * Enrollment: might be more descriptive as the % of students over the total of persons that should be visiting that stage of education.
 * established events: Really needed?. Anyway, it can be ignored by leaving this fields blank.

I changed the agency image to fit this way, I like that idea. As to enrollment, you can easily put in a percentage instead of a number. I realize established events in relatively unnecessary, but it seems important, to me at least, to be at least able to say when the current system was established.--naryathegreat | (talk) 17:13, August 9, 2005 (UTC)

You are right about the percentage, didn't think about it. Thanks for the fixes! -Mariano 07:13, 10 August 2005 (UTC)

(I noticed the remark on Education in Germany.) Thanks, but oh boy, this infobox hardly can fit a country such as Germany, where each Land (state) has complete sovereignty over the education and it is unconstitutional for the federal government to perform any "oversight"... It is probably better to design a box for Germany (I am not even sure whether there another case in the world) than claim that there is something (functionally) like the US Department of Education &mdash; Ylai 11:46, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

Optional items
How about making all but the most basic items optional? That way, if something doesn't apply (perhaps like for Germany), it doesn't have to be used. Also, having a few "free" items would allow for more customization, but still have a consistent framework. See Template:Infobox School2 for an example. Rfrisbietalk 17:04, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

Education infobox
How are the Primary, Secondary, and Post-Secondary stages of education defined? Are they between certain ages, eg. Primary (6-11), Secondary (11-15) etc? Is there a Wikipedia consensus for these definitions? Also, how about after the educational budget figure, having a percentage of GDP or total government expenditure? eg. USD 69.4 billion (10% government expenditure) This would show at a glance the relative priority education is given in the country's national budget. Lastly, where did you get the information for the statistics? Thanks. Bobo12345 08:39, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

Primary, secondary, and post-secondary are their relative definitions in the particular country as grades and ages vary widely between nations. Post-secondary is a little more obvious as it usually indicates education beyond that required by the state.--68.95.163.166 15:20, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

Primary, secondary, post-secondary schools
IMHO it would be more interesting to know what each country calls their primary, secondary, and post-secondary schools in their own language and in English (e.g., in th US that would be elementary school, middle school, high school, etc) and which ones are compulsory. Including typical ages for each level would make comparing educational systems between countries easier. It can also be interesting to know what the names of the respective post-secondary degrees are in each country. While it may not apply for the US, in many European and Asian countries school children are required to learn a second language (often English) and it would be interesting to know at what age they start learning the 2nd language. Also, it may be difficult to find the statistics for how many people attend each level of education (in percents or numbers). panda 14:41, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

Nonsensical year linkage
I have tried, and failed, to remove the daft year linkage from the budget year entry. Please sort this out.--Mais oui! (talk) 06:37, 30 November 2008 (UTC)

Rewrite using the Infobox template
I'm rewritten the article using the Infobox template. I think it greatly simplifies it and makes it prettier. I also made it so it only displays things it has a value for. I think it all works pretty well with the existing articles that use it, except that it no longer inserts a % sign in the literacy section (that was annoying me because if you put a reference for the literacy stats it put the reference number between the percentage and the percentage sign). Please let me know if there are any problems, I will try and fix them. TastyCakes (talk) 14:37, 24 July 2009 (UTC)

Compulsory years
I was thinking that there could be a line in general info what years are compulsory in the country. This could be relevant to understand the number of students. --Eriass2 (talk) 19:32, 14 September 2015 (UTC)