Secondary School vs University

Education is very important to everyone. As we know, secondary school and university are the places where students can gain their knowledge; students can get education from both secondary school and university. However, study in secondary school and university are different because we can get different experiences and level of knowledge from secondary school and university. There are still several similarities and differences between secondary school and university.

            Generally, secondary school and university are both institutions that provide education service to mankind.  Most of the subjects are the same but in university, the level of each subjects will be harder and difficult than secondary school for sure. Teacher or either lecturer is the one who provide education to students in secondary and university. Students gain knowledge and learn from secondary school. Besides, studying in secondary school and university can also give the opportunities for students to expose to the society and gain new experiences. For example, those activities that held by school have given the chances to students to get involve to the society such as community service. By this, students have to opportunities to gain new experiences and expose more other than only in academic.

                Co-curriculum activities are available in both secondary school and university. As we can see secondary school and university are not only focus in academic but also co-curriculum.  In secondary school, students can join co-curriculum activities which divided into three main groups which are uniform body, sports and clubs. Uniform body such as Cadet Police, scout, girl guides, St. John and so on. For in university, they provide more co-curriculum activities that which concern with more on sports and social. Co-curriculum activities are almost the same important to secondary school and university.

                However, there are still differences between secondary school and university, and we can differentiate them in several terms. One of the most obvious differences between secondary school and university are the price. Secondary school’s school fees are cheaper than university as most of it is supported by the government, that’s why studying in secondary school does not cost very high. Studying in university will definitely cost higher because the higher and professional education are provided by the higher degree level of lecturer or professor.

                In another way, the dress code for secondary school is away different from university. As we can see, the fixed dress code is required for secondary school students. For example, females are required to wear pinafore and white shirt whereas guys are required to wear green pants and white shirt. This is because there will show more discipline in school. In university, students are allowed to wear different kind of dress code as their wishes but required to wear in smart casual. For example Polo-Tee and jeans with sports shoes are the best dress code in university but not sleeveless, shorts and flip flops.

                In a nutshell, both secondary school and university have their similarities and differences in different terms. The most important is both secondary school and university are the place who born successful mankind that contribute to the country.