Many students start their nursery school in Cameroon at the age of three or four. In these schools what they only have to do it is to draw, paint, play, sing,...After nursery time, as the systems is divided into three sectors, we have, primary sector in which people start at the age of three or four and were student have one exam to take when they reach their last year, the secondary sector in which people start at the age of the nine(for the cleaver one),ten or eleven and were students have three exams to take for their two last years, then we have the tertiary sector in which people start at the age of sixteen, seventeen, or heighten, twenty(for the older one's).In Cameroon, there are many private schools more than public schools(schools that belong to the government).Many parents prefer to send their children in these kind of schools because they give a good education there and the teachers are more competent. Sometimes they send their children there because they want them to receive a foreign education. For example in Cameroon we have an American school, and a French school, is these school students are not receiving the same education as they are not doing the same subjects as students from other schools, but they are taking the same courses, programs that student from USA,UK or FRANCE. To punish the student in class, maybe if they have not done their homework or if they make a lot of noise in class, the schoolteachers can beat them, ask them to kneel down, ask them to leave the classroom or maybe ask them to sweep the floor after the class. University in Cameroon is available only for students who have successfully completed their secondary education y obtained their GCSE. Then there are private university (the more expensive and that belong to somebody or a particular)and public university(the more cheaper and that belong to the government).Usually, when students are at the university they do not have to live whit their parents again since they want them to be independent, responsible of what they do in their life, but it's depend on family and if your university is not far from your house. But actually many university students travel abroad to study mostly when they want to do a specific subject, and usually the most popular country that they choose are UK, Usa, France, Belgium, Canada and South Africa. The most serious problems facing the education system in Cameroon in the infrastructure. However the educational system of East Cameroon followed the methods of French model and the West Cameroon system was based on the British model.
To talk about the British system of education. In the UK, system is divided into three sectors. In the primary sector, children start with the nursery school class at the age of three or four. Then start their preparatory education at the age of five and can end it at the age of thirteen. In the secondary sector of education, students start their secondary school at the age of eleven or thirteen only when they have successfully completed their primary sector. At this stage, they usually end at the age of sixteen where they should be prepared to pass one of the different exam as GCSEs, or GNVQs. Between sixteen and eighteen, students have the choice either to leave school and work or starting their school sixth form college where they can obtained their A-levels or equivalents. In the tertiary sector, the typical age to start it is eighteen. In this sector, students after their A-levels start their higher education institution as universities or other higher education institutions. In the Uk, there are two kind of schools. Independent schools is a school that is not financed through the taxation system by local or national government, and is instead funded by private sources. For example we have the Warwick School, one of Britain's oldest independent schools.
Then we have State schools where all children in England between the ages of five and 16 are entitled to a free place at. To control students in their class, teacher in Uk sometimes told them to get out from the class. In the Uk to live with your parent while you are already in the university depend on if your house is not fare from your school, but most student live either on the campus or they share a house/flat whit their friends. And, it's hardly to see students from Uk travelling abroad to study, but if yes the most popular country from them is the Usa.
References:
http://www.mapsofworld.com/cameroon/education/,
http://www.schoolswork.co.uk/media/files/Undestanding_the_UK_education_system.pdf,
http://www.euroeducation.net/prof/ukco.htm,
http://www.cameroon-today.com/education-in-cameroon.html.
