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EDUCATION IN GREAT

BRITAIN


STATE PRIVATE (PUBLIC)

SCHOOLS SCHOOLS

( 90% ) (10 %)


10 % of British schoolchildren go to the private schools.

Parents pay for these schools. The most famous schools are called public schools and they have long history and traditions.

Children of wealthy or aristocratic families often go to the same public schools as their parents and grandparents.

The teachers of the private schools pay personal attention to each pupil. Boys and girls don’t study together at these schools.

• Eton College –the most famous English all boys public school.


State

schools• 90 % of British schoolchildren go to the go

to "state schools".

• non fee-paying, funded from taxes and

most are organised by Local Authorities

(LA).


Education system in Britain


3 stages of education:

• PRIMARY (5-11)

• SECONDARY (11-16)

• FURTHER (16-18)


INFANT SCHOOLS

(5-7)

JUNIOR SCHOOLS

(7-11)


• Primary School: 5 – 11

• two exams

• one at the end of each key stage

• exam helps parents to choose a future

school

• A Nursery school–earlier, at the age of 3


• MODERN SCHOOLS

GRAMMAR SCHOOLS

COMPREHENSIVE SCHOOLS


Secondary School

•11 – 16

•compulsory is learning foreign languages

•French, German, Spanish, Italian or Russian

•in 14 they can opt for the General National

Vocational Qualification-G.N.V.Q.- to learn a

trade( amechanic, a hairdresser, an electrician)

•Instead of taking GCSEs at 16.the GNVQ helps

to find a job


G.C.S.E. (GeneralCerificate of Secondary

Education)

it is not a big exam

they can take from 5 to 10 GCSE.s

they must pass 7GCSE.s to go to university

when they have passed it, they can choose

Between Sixth Form College or a Tertiary

College


AUTUMN

TERM

(September-

Christmas)

SPRING TERM

(January –

Easter )

SUMMER

TERM

(Easter – June)


In Great Britain children have to wear uniforms when they are at school.


• A* - Excellent

• A – Very good

• B – Good

• C – Satisfactory

• D – Poor

• E – Very poor

• F – Awful


• English schools offer a wide range of extracurricular activities

( school orchestra, music ensembles, sports, and etc. )


COLLEGES

Some 16 years pupils go

to colleges of further

education to study for

more practical diplomas.

6th FORM COLLEGES

They prepare pupils for a

national exam called

“A” level (advanced level)

at 18. Children need

“A” level to enter a university.


• UNIVERSITIES COLLEGES

• POLYTECHNICS MAGISTRACY

They accept students with A-levels from 18. The oldest and the

most famous universities are Oxford and Cambridge.


Universities

• 30 percent of young people go on to higher education

at 18

• 1.8 million students are currently in the higher education

system


Universities • Most undergraduate university degrees take three years to

complete

• Professional courses are usually undertaken as five-year undergraduate degrees

• Students who have already been awarded a different undergraduate degree can often take a shorter, graduate-level course


What do universities do?• Offer courses to students and

provide learning and teaching

opportunities

• Primary source of trained experts

in all areas of science and

technology

• Knowledge transfer


Universities

Classification • Ancient universities

• Red brick universities

• New universities

• Open universities


Ancient

universities

• Describe the medieval and renaissance universities that continue to exist

• Found before the 17th century

Oxford- the oldest university in the English-speaking world, it can lay claim to 900 years of continuous existence.


Well-known ancient universities The universities of Cambridge

1209


The universities of St Andrews

1413

The universities of Glasgow

1451


The universities of Aberdeen

1492

The universities of Edinburgh

1583

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Red brick universityOrigins of the term

The civic university movement

Other institutions

Gallery


Origins of the term

• It was first coined by a professor of Spanish

(Edgar Allison Peers)

• Describing these civic universities.

• Having been inspired by the Victoria Building at

the University of Liverpool.

• It is built from a distinctive red pressed brick,

with terracotta decorative dressings.

• It was completed two years after Liverpool's

Victoria Building.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Allison_Peers


The civic university movement

• The English civic university movement

developed in 19th century.

• 1880 : Victoria University.

• 1900 : University of Birmingham.

• 1903 : University of Liverpool.

• 1904 : University of Leeds.

• 1905 : University of Sheffield.

• 1909 : University of Bristol.

• 2004 : University of Manchester.


Other institutions

• Institutions share similar characteristics to the original six civic universities.

• University of reading: the only university to receive its charter between the two world wars.

• 1908: Queen’s University Belfast became a civic university.

• University of Wales( redbrick): Aberystwyth, Bangor, Swansea, Cardiff.

• University of London( redbrick): Royal Holloway, Queen Mary, Goldsmiths College.


Gallery

(Redbrick Universities)

• University of

Birmingham(1990

)

• University of

Manchester(1903)


• University of Liverpool(1903)

• University of Leeds(1904)


• University of

Sheffield(1905)

• University of

Bristol(1909)


New universities

• 1928 the term used to for new civic

universities.


• Bristol universities “Red brick universities”


Two types of universities

• 1960s “plate glass universities”

Aston-Birmingham Salford-Manchester


• 1970s,another thirty became

“polytechnics”

• 1990s,most of these became universities


• Universities created in or after 1992 :

– “polytechnics” were initially created in UK

– Polytechnics were intended to complement

the older


The open universities...

• Founded in 1968 =>

distance-learning

universities

• Working people take

part in open

universities for a

higher education

qualifications


• Study by television,radio,written books...

• Students have to attend short residential

courses.


• http://www.internationalstaff.ac.uk/educati

on/universities/

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_univer

sity

http://www.internationalstaff.ac.uk/education/universities/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_university

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