Recommended annual taught time in full-time compulsory education in Europe, 2011/12
BELGIUM – FRENCH COMMUNITY
Total minimum annual taught time
Literacy learning
Mathematics
Natural Sciences
Social Studies
First Foreign Language
Other Languages
Physical Education
Arts Education
Religion, Ethics and Moral Education
ICT subject in its own right
Technology
Core Curriculum Options
Other Subjects
Compulsory subjects with flexible timetable
Note: The teaching of compulsory foreign languages is significantly different in the Brussels-Capital Region and in the communes with special linguistic regime where a second foreign language is taught 3 periods per week in third and fourth grades and five periods per week in fifth and sixth grades.
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Flexible time
Horizontal axis:
Number of hours distributed between various school years
Vertical axis:
Grades
n:
Compulsory education
Source: Eurydice.
Number of hours per school year
46