Ireland is a "close relative" of the United Kingdom, with English as its mother tongue, and its education system is also in line with the United Kingdom. As an emerging immigrant country, a leader in the European software industry, and the only English-speaking country in the European Union, Ireland's "typical British education" is sought after by primary school students and parents of international students. Although the education system was inherited in the United Kingdom, Ireland has gained a higher reputation in the field of education with its original transition year, the Transition Year.
Irish Secondary School
Irish secondary schools, like in China, have six years of junior high school. Irish students take the Leaving Certificate Examination in the sixth year of Secondary School. It is worth mentioning that in 2020, the Irish secondary school curriculum system will fully open Chinese classes, and in June this year, the Chinese test results will be counted into the total score of the Irish college entrance examination for the first time. Both secondary and tertiary education in Ireland receive state funding. In addition to public secondary schools, ireland has a large number of private secondary schools to choose from. Of ireland's 723 secondary schools, 51 are private secondary schools for a fee. According to the Irish Ministry of Education, around 26,000 students attended private secondary schools in the 2019/20 school year. In Ireland, private school tuition is more affordable and not as expensive as in the UK, US or Asia. In Ireland, two-thirds of private schools are located in the capital, Dublin, and the largest private co-educational school is St Andrew's College in Booterstown; The largest private girls' school is Mount Anville in Gotstown, District D14.
University of Ireland
View of the Library of Trinity University in Dublin, which houses the Book of Kells, known as Ireland's national treasure. Trinity University Dublin is recognised as one of the top universities in Europe and is known as the "Three Musketeers of Europe" along with the universities of Cambridge and Oxford in the United Kingdom. The Irish High School Leaving Certificate (referred to as LC), also known as the "Irish College Entrance Examination". The college entrance examination subjects are assessed by students' self-selected 6-8 courses, of which mathematics and English are 2 required subjects, and students choose at least 4 or more subjects to take the exam. The syllabus covers a total of 40 subjects (including Chinese) in 6 categories, so students can choose the subjects they are good at to achieve higher scores.
Ireland's LC test scores are officially recognised by UCAS, the UK University Admissions Service, and like uk-based students, they can apply directly to all UK universities. As a country with a population of less than 5 million, the admission rate and student source ratio of Irish high school graduates in major universities in the United Kingdom and the United States are very high. For example, the University of Cambridge admits hundreds of Irish students each year; Among the international students of Oxford University in the 2017 academic year, the number of Irish students remained in the top ten; Harvard admits more than twenty Irish students each year.
Traditional Irish immigrants [Stamp 4 program] are more expensive, and customers with lower budgets can consider a one-step EU passport (Czech, Latvian, Lithuanian, etc.). Under the Irish Nationality Act, to apply for Irish citizenship by naturalisation, only 5 years of residency requirement needs to be met, and the 12 months prior to the application can be met for consecutive residence in Ireland, without any citizenship test. But in practice, the Department of Justice and Equality of Ireland has been allowing applicants to leave Ireland for 6 weeks out of 12 months prior to the filing date, and can leave for longer in exceptional or unavoidable circumstances. Whether it's the high-priced Stamp 4 or the one-step EU passport requirements for Irish naturalisation are the same. At the same time, EU passports: Czech Republic, Latvia, Lithuania or Schengen countries, travel convenience, can be described as a passport = 28 passports (EU 27 countries, and after changing Irish passports + The United Kingdom) + 4 countries travel convenience (Liechtenstein, Norway, Iceland, Switzerland).