students with whom the review team met confirmed that they experienced adequate support for assignments completed outside of school and found those assignments to be usefully integrated with their inschool work the total schoolbased instruction time in basic education is shorter than the oecd average hours as compared to about one year less by the end of compulsory schooling in recent years the duration of instruction has been extended with the introduction of compulsory preprimary education in the objective of which was to better prepare students for primary schooling