University or college?

Here in Moldova alongside the university system, they have a very well developed further education college system. This means that at 16 years old young people here have the possibility to study for two more years at school to obtain Baccalaureate qualifications and then go onto university. Alternatively, they can go to a further education college where as well as studying standard subjects like maths, geography, science, languages etc. you also have a specialist subject, like electronics, music, car mechanics etc. After college people then have the possibility to go to work or to go onto university. The college system seems very popular, partly I think for financial reasons, as it means people can get out to work sooner than if they went onto study at university. The vision here at CSC is to work than not just with university students, but also further education college students and even high school students. Indeed, here in Balti the majority of the students involved in the ministry at the moment are from colleges as opposed to from the university.