In Norway, we have a 10 years primary school, 1st to 10th grade, of which the 8th, 9th and 10th year is a kind of high school.
You start in the 1st grade when you're 6 years old.
Then there's regulary 3 years of college, on which you start the year you become 16.
You have to send an application for intake on that line you want to go, and you get information during the 9th and 10th grade about how it's done.
The lines are such as humanities, construction and building, transportation, all depending about what you want to become.
You have to seek individually every year, to get a place on that line you wanna go.
Some of the lines are what I have to call a kind of national subjects, in lack of better words :lol:
That means there are just around 6-10 schools in the country who can offer those lines.
Like that line I went to, my last school year, to become a construction machine operator.
This line is just offered by 6 colleges in Norway, 4 in the south area, and 2 in the north.
I think the system in Norway are much easier to understand than in England :lol:
After college, you can go to university and such to get a higher education, but I think you need very good characters for that :lol: