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Focus On Australia

Program Details

Program Length	Start	End	Price	Age on Departure
Intensive Programme	DEC 10	FEB 11	11,000	15,16,17

AFS & Your Experience

AFS Australia has been in existence for 40 years. Almost 5,000 AFS volunteers in 114 chapters across the country work hard year round to provide you with the most satisfying intercultural experience possible. During the year AFS Australia host more than 4800 students from 34 countries.

AFS will be at your side throughout your inter cultural exchange.
Even before leaving your home country, you will participate in an
organised AFS orientation and have the assistance of experienced
AFS volunteers.Once in your hosted country, you can rely on your
local volunteer contact and other chapter volunteers to support you in
your experience. Together we will ensure that you have an incredible experiences abroad.

Australian Schools

There are 12 years of primary and secondary school in Australia,
with the years being numbered 1 through 12. Australian youth are
required to attend the school from the beginning of the year of their 6th
birthday to the end of the year of their 15th birthday. (16th in Tasmania).

In Australia, there are government schools (‘public’)
and non-government schools (‘private’ or ‘independent’). Most
private and independent schools were established by religious denominations. Approximately 75% of Australian secondary students attend government schools.

There are coeducational and single-sex schools. In most government and non-government schools students must wear uniforms.

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AFS Australia

Australia is as large as the United States, yet more people live in Texas than in all of Australia. In fact, 90% of Aussies live on 2.6% of the land, typically along the coasts and away from the flat, arid Outback that constitutes much of the continent. Roughly one-fifth of Aussies are first-generation immigrants from 165 different nations, giving Australia probably the world’s most diverse populace, and one that’s increasingly cosmopolitan and laid back. At the same time, Australia boasts much that’s unique, most notably the Aborigines, whose culture, dating back at least 50,000 years, is the oldest surviving human society, and wildlife such as the kangaroo, koala, platypus and wombat, all which thrive in the nation’s array of 500 national parks that protect mountains, rain forests, deserts, coastal dunes and coral reefs.