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| | Secondary education - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | In most contemporary educational systems of the world, secondary education is a stage of formal education characterised by transition from the typically compulsory, comprehensive primary education for minors to the optional, selective tertiary, "post-secondary", or "higher" education (e.g., university, vocational school) for adults. |
 | | Depending on the system, schools for this period or a part of it may be called secondary schools, high schools, gymnasiums, lyceums, middle schools, colleges, vocational schools and preparatory schools, and the exact meaning of any of these varies between the systems. |
 | | The purpose of secondary education can be to give common knowledge, to prepare for either higher education or vocational education, or to train directly to a profession. |
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