In and around Madras in the 1820s, according to documents Tooley found in London archives, a "deep-rooted and extensive" education system covered 25% of the male school-age population, a level then comparable to most European countries.
Some medical schools (e.g., Peking Union Medical College) were permitted to maintain their extensive education system because their main task was defined as training teachers and researchers.
To this end, the military departments have established an extensive continuing education system for their officers.
This isn't the only possible way to do things; in Germany's extensive vocational education system, employers are obliged by law to set aside a certain ratio of apprenticeships, so students will have someplace to go after they graduate.
More recently, Abbado worked with the Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela, the flagship of that country's extensive music education system, and mentored its conductor, Gustavo Dudamel, now the music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
Tanzania has developed an extensive S&T education system, including 44 higher education institutions that offer S&T training and undertake research.
In 1992, when her husband was running for President, she received the now-famous "Letter to Hillary Clinton," from Marc Tucker, the president of the National Center on Education and the Economy, which advocated a national curriculum, extensive testing, and an education system in which "most of the federal, state, district and union rules and regulations" that prevented big changes "are swept away".
Boko Haram, a radical Islamist terrorist group, has caused extensive strain on the education system in Nigeria.
A notable example is Poland, whose students' performance improved considerably after extensive restructuring of the education system, with a move away from unpopular vocational schools and the postponement by one year of the streaming of students into different school tracks.
Over the last three decades, many Western European countries have implemented extensive reforms in the nursing education system.
Universities in Lithuania Discusses education system and admissions; plus extensive list and links to public and private universities and colleges in Latvia by regions.
