Education of UK

Education of UK

• Primary education – between 5-11 :
  1. Infant school 5-7
  2. Junior school 7-11

• Secondary education
  1. Grammar schools
  2. Secondary modern schools
  3. Comprehensive schools

• Indipendent schools – free – paying

• Grammar schools
• until 18 or 19
• university preparation forvery inteligent children
• the top form
• sixth form – 2,3 years

• Secondary modern schools
• for less academic children
• education with a practical blas – handicrafts, domestic sciences

• Public schools
  • The most famous of the private secondary school
  • Expensive and selective boarding schools for boys only

• Further education
  • Vocational
  • Non-vacational and recreational
  • Adult education

• Higher education
  • University
  • Teacher training
  • Advanced courses in further education

Oxford and Cambridge

• Oxford – 12 th century
• Cambridge – 13 th century
  • Universities composed of colleges – 500 students each independent self coverning
  • „Pons“ – teachers of Oxford and Cambridge

University stuff

• Vice – chancellor – head of each university
• Ranks
• Asistant lecturer
• Lecturer – main teaching grade
• Senior lecturer of reader or assistant proffessor
• Proffessor – highest rank

Students and degrees

• Undergraduates – students studing for a degree
• Graduatel – who bave been awarded a degree
• Postgraduates – studing for poscard degrees

Education in Great Britain

Full-time education is compulsory for all children between the ages of 5 and 16.

There are some nursery schools for children between 2 and 5 years old, but their number is lacking.

Primary education is given to children between the ages from 5 to 11. Primary schools are usually divided into infant schools for children between the ages from 5 to 7, and junior schools for children aged 7 to 11.

Secondary education is provided through grammar schools, comprehensive schools and secondary modern schools. Pupils at grammar schools remain there until 18 or 19 years old, especially if they want to go on to university. Secondary modern schools give a general education with a practical experiences. In this school it is common more time to devote to handicrafts, domestic sciences and other practical activities than in grammar schools.

Secondary school pupils may take examinations leading to the Certificate of Secondary Education (CSE) or the General Certificate of Education (GCE).

Higher education has 3 levels:

(1) universities; (2) teacher training; (3) advanced courses in further education.

The universities are self-governing institutions, academically independent of the Department of Education and Science. The English universities can be divided into three groups :

1) Oxford and Cambridge (or “Oxbridge“);

2) Provincial Universities: Birmingham, Bristol, Durham, Exeter, Hull, Keele, Leeds, Leicester, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Newcastle, Nottingham, Reading, Sheffield and Southampton.

3) The new universities (opened after 1960): Sussex, York, East Anglia, Essex, Lancaster, Warwick, Kent and some others.

Students who are studying for a degree are called undergraduates. Those who have passed their examinations and have been awarded a degree are graduates. Most universities differentiate between arts and science titles, and award the degrees of Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Master of Arts (M.A.), and Master of Science (M.Sc.). The abbreviations of these titles are put after a person’s name.