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EDUCATION IN GREAT
BRITAIN
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STATE PRIVATE (PUBLIC)
SCHOOLS SCHOOLS
( 90% ) (10 %)
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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.
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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).
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Education system in Britain
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3 stages of education:
• PRIMARY (5-11)
• SECONDARY (11-16)
• FURTHER (16-18)
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INFANT SCHOOLS
(5-7)
JUNIOR SCHOOLS
(7-11)
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• 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
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• MODERN SCHOOLS
GRAMMAR SCHOOLS
COMPREHENSIVE SCHOOLS
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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
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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
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AUTUMN
TERM
(September-
Christmas)
SPRING TERM
(January –
Easter )
SUMMER
TERM
(Easter – June)
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In Great Britain children have to wear uniforms when they are at school.
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• A* - Excellent
• A – Very good
• B – Good
• C – Satisfactory
• D – Poor
• E – Very poor
• F – Awful
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• English schools offer a wide range of extracurricular activities
( school orchestra, music ensembles, sports, and etc. )
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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.
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• UNIVERSITIES COLLEGES
• POLYTECHNICS MAGISTRACY
They accept students with A-levels from 18. The oldest and the
most famous universities are Oxford and Cambridge.
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Universities
• 30 percent of young people go on to higher education
at 18
• 1.8 million students are currently in the higher education
system
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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
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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
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Universities
Classification • Ancient universities
• Red brick universities
• New universities
• Open universities
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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.
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Well-known ancient universities The universities of Cambridge
1209
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The universities of St Andrews
1413
The universities of Glasgow
1451
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Gallery
(Redbrick Universities)
• University of
Birmingham(1990
)
• University of
Manchester(1903)
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• University of Liverpool(1903)
• University of Leeds(1904)
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• University of
Sheffield(1905)
• University of
Bristol(1909)
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New universities
• 1928 the term used to for new civic
universities.
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• Bristol universities “Red brick universities”
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Two types of universities
• 1960s “plate glass universities”
Aston-Birmingham Salford-Manchester
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• 1970s,another thirty became
“polytechnics”
• 1990s,most of these became universities
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• Universities created in or after 1992 :
– “polytechnics” were initially created in UK
– Polytechnics were intended to complement
the older
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The open universities...
• Founded in 1968 =>
distance-learning
universities
• Working people take
part in open
universities for a
higher education
qualifications
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• Study by television,radio,written books...
• Students have to attend short residential
courses.
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• http://www.internationalstaff.ac.uk/educati
on/universities/
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_univer
sity
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