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An '''Educational Equivalency Degree''' or '''Equivalency''' is a term for a diploma recognized through the [[United Empire of Earth]], awarded after completion of the Educational Equivalency Curriculum (EEC).<ref name="GPE">{{Cite RSI|url=https://robertsspaceindustries.com/galactapedia/article/Vgg7YGdQDY-equivalency|text=Galactapedia: Equivalency|accessdate=2023-04-19}}</ref>

== Process ==
Most of the primary and secondary education in the UEE is done through computer programs like [[Empiric Education|Empiric Education's]] [[mobiGlas|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">{{Cite RSI|text=Comm-Link:Writer's Guide - Part Ten|int=Comm-Link:Writer's Guide - Part Ten|url=comm-link/spectrum-dispatch/13024-Writers-Guide-Part-Ten}}</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 [[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 [[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 [[2526]] the [[United Planets of Earth]] (UPE) codified it into the [[Common Law|Common Laws]].<ref name="GPE" />
== Examples==
* [[Russel Valem]], who was described as a "wunderkind" passed his equivalency at the age of 12.
* Ex-criminal [[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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[[Category:Lore]][[Category:Education]]

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