StarCitizen:Equivalency

An Educational Equivalency Degree or Equivalency is a term for a diploma recognized through the StarCitizen:United Empire of Earth, awarded after completion of the Educational Equivalency Curriculum (EEC).<ref name="GPE">Template:Cite RSI</ref>

Process

Most of the primary and secondary education in the UEE is done through computer programs like Empiric Education's Glass. Only in fully settled planets there is access to normative schools. Despite the UEE granting a right to public education,<ref name="GPE" /> the teacher-to-student ratio in public schools is atrocious and only private and military schools offer a more agreeable ratio.<ref name="GPE" /><ref name="WG10">Template:Cite RSI</ref> Students usually finish their Equivalency between age 17 and 18.

Passing the Equivalency exam is a requirement for military service or university entrance and shouldn't be confused with StarCitizen:citizenship.

History

The reason for the creation of the Equivalency was that, despite Secondary Education becoming the bare minimum mandatory public education level on the StarCitizen:United Nations of Earth (UNE), the expansion through the stars made impossible to maintain a normative school system, as children at the frontier were isolated or the teacher-to-student ratio made the task of schooling them difficult.<ref name="GPE" />

As a response, the UNE created the Equivalency as a temporary measure, but later in StarCitizen:2526 the StarCitizen:United Planets of Earth (UPE) codified it into the Common Laws.<ref name="GPE" />

Examples

• StarCitizen:Russel Valem, who was described as a "wunderkind" passed his equivalency at the age of 12.
• Ex-criminal StarCitizen:Jenk Gallen passed the equivalency exam at the age of 31.

Development

In the Writer's Guide Equivalency was described as comparable to "high school education."<ref name="WG10" />

References

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