Education in Surea is important for success and competition is consequently very heated and fierce. A centralized administration oversees the process for the education of children from kindergarten to the third and final year of high school. Mathematics, science, Surean, social studies, IT and English are generally considered to be the most important subjects. The Surea Educational Reform 2004 which made business studies a compulsory subject for secondary education to promote more young entrepreneurs saw an increase of parents getting the students entering business schools for their tertiary education, either as a major or a double degree.