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Aruba
Aruba, a 33-kilometer long island in the southern Caribbean Sea is one of the four constituent countries that form the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The country is popular for its white sandy beaches and has two official languages, Dutch and Papiamento. With latter becoming an official language only in 2003.... read more
Aruba, a 33-kilometer long island in the southern Caribbean Sea is one of the four constituent countries that form the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The country is popular for its white sandy beaches and has two official languages, Dutch and Papiamento. With latter becoming an official language only in 2003.
Aruba provides education at all levels and has a system patterned after the Dutch educational system. This includes three types of primary education, three types of general secondary education, two types of vocational education and the higher education. Spanish and French is offered in secondary school and college because many students opt to continue their studies in Europe. This is because the choice for higher education is very limited so the students fly to the Netherlands, North America, South America and to the rest of the European countries to pursue their courses of choice.
Schools in the island include a private Dutch school, Schakel College, medical schools Aureus University School of Medicine and Xavier School of Medicine. read less
