British system of education
- 2. CONTENT • Education in Great Britain. • The State schools and Private schools. • Nursery school. • Primary school. • Secondary school. • Higher school.
- 3. EDUCATION IN GREAT BRITAIN • Education is compulsory from the ages of 5 to 16. That means that everybody in the country has to go to school.
- 4. • In 1988 the national curriculum was introduced. The national curriculum is a framework for learning. It was brought in to standardize learning across the country so that all students were learning the same things.
- 5. State schools and Private schools • In Britain they have two main types of schools. There are state schools and private schools or independent schools. • A state school is a school that is free. It is open to everybody. It’s government funded and you don’t have to pay. • The other type of school is a private school or independent school. These are fee paying schools are expected to pay fees per term and they don’t have to follow the national curriculum so strictly whereas in a state school they have to follow the national curriculum. • In addition to private schools, in Britain There are public schools. These are a group of schools that are the most expensive, the most elite. For example, they‘ve got Eton, Harrow Cheltenham Ladies College. These are the kinds of schools that royalty go. For example Prince Harry and Prince William both went to Eton. So it sounds like they should be free, but in fact it’s opposite.
- 6. Education system falls into four stages: • Pre-compulsory education (under 5 years of age) • Compulsory education ( 5-16 ) • Further education ( 16-18 ) • Higher education ( over 18 years of age )
- 7. • Nursery begins at 3 years old. There are not enough state nursery schools ( or kindergartens) in Britain. • There are private nurseries but these are expensive and a lot of families cannot afford them. • Children’s activity start at 9 a.m. and finish at 3 p.m., they have their lunch at school and usually a rest in the afternoon. They play, paint, dance and sing and do the same things that all little children do.
- 8. PRIMARY SCHOOL • So when they are five years old they go to Primary school. Primary school is the first school they’ll go to. It’s from five to eleven years old. In America they would call primary school elementary school but in Britain primary school. • Infant school is from 5-7 years and Junior school from 7-11 years.Both of them have its own building and playground. There are usually about 35 children in a class as well as a teacher, there is a teacher´s assistant. Children have the same teacher for one year and she teaches nearly all of the lessons in the class.
- 9. SECONDARY SCHOOL • Secondary school is from eleven to sixteen or sometimes eighteen as well. In America they call that a high school but in Britain secondary school. • In most places in Britain you go to a comprehensive school which is open to everyone. In some places the british use the system of grammer schools and secondary moderns. Now a grammer school is generally more academic whereas a secondary modern is more vocational. don't go to school. go to the Private School. go to comprehensive school. 8%4%
- 10. GCSE • So when they get sixteen that’s when they do their first big exams. It’s called GCSEs. General Certificate of Secondary Education. Generally they take about nine subjects. They have to take English, maths and science in some places and then they get to choose. For example, history, French, geography. • At sixteen they choose; If they want to continue with school or leave school and maybe start a job or do something else.
- 11. SIXTH FORM • So between ages of 16 and 18 It’s called sixth form. They can spend here two years( lower sixth and upper sixth). • In the end they must take exam which is called ADVANCED Level ( A-LEVEL) • They need only three A-levels to go to university. • If study for one year they’ll get an AS- level. Generally they do about three. But in Scotland they don’t do A- levels. They do something called Highers.
- 12. Tertiary College • There are also colleges. In America colleges are what we call universities. But in Britain this word has a few other meanings. • If you are not interested in doing academic subjects then you can do vocational subjects, such as plumbing, carpentry. More practical skills are gained that led into a job.
- 13. Faith School • In Britain there are a number of faith schools. These are schools that they are connected to a religion. The majority are church of England schools but there are also schools from other religions like Catholicism, Islam, Judaism.
- 14. Higher Education • At a university in Britain they do one subject (they take one core subject).So again it could be English, data science, history. • A bachelor’s degree or undergraduate degree takes three years. However in Scotland they do a four year degree. • And at the end of the course you take something called finals, to see what grade you get.
- 15. • There are a group of elite universities places like Oxford, Cambridge, Bristol, Edinburgh and they are known as red-brick universities.
- 16. In Conclusion; • Education is compulsory. • There are state schools and private schools. Approximately, 90% of people choose the state school. • Nursery begins at 3 years old. So when they are five years old they go to Primary school. Secondary school is from eleven to sixteen or sometimes eighteen as well. • At sixteen they then get to choose. If they want to continue with school or leave school and maybe start a job or do something else. • Other important point is that they give a chance to pupil who are not interested with science. They can go to the tertiary colleges and gain more practice which led them in their future job.
- 17. Source • EDUCATION IN GREAT BRITAIN and USA.PDF. • https://youtu.be/I-d3L3F_ELo.