Education in China and Catalonia
By Rong-Xiu Wu & Xiao Wei Chi

The education is harder in China, because Chinese students have 40 classes every week. The day begins in the schools with a class where students study by themselves. They start classes at 7:00am and finish at 5:00pm. They have 5 classes in the morning, and 3 classes in the afternoon. Every class lasts 40 minutes, and there are 10 minutes for relax after each class. From 11:45am to 2:15pm is the time for lunch. Every day students have the most important subjects: Chinese, English and Maths. The other subjects have a minimum of two classes every week. They have to do their homework every day. Chinese students only have Chinese New Year's holidays and summer holidays, 245 days of year they're at school. In China we have 3 years of secondary school and 3 years of high school (A levels in Great Britain and Batxillerat in Spain).

The education in Catalonia compared to China is more relaxed. Here we don't have a lot of homework, teachers aren't strict compared to China and there is more freedom regarding to clothes too.
In Catalonia classes start at 8.15am and finish at 5.15pm. Here we have 4 years of secondary and 2 years of high school or Batxillerat and, furthermore, long holidays.