The document outlines the education systems of Great Britain, the USA, and Russia. It describes the main stages and institution types for each country from preschool through postgraduate education. Some common features across the systems include primary/elementary school typically spanning ages 6-11, secondary school from ages 11-16/18, and higher education opportunities including bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees. Differences are seen in the types of secondary schools and exams in each country. The document provides details on the various pathways and options at each education level in the three countries.

2. The Project:
“Education in Great Britain, in the
USA and in Russia: the common
features and distinctions”
The author: Grachova Y,
(pupil of the 9th“a” form, school №34)
The tutor: Shentsova E.F.
(2007-2008 academic year)

3. • The theme of the project is connected with
the 5th Unit “What will you be?”, “Schools in Great Britain.
Schools in Russia”, textbook “English-9” (V.P. Kuzovlev);
• The basic question of the project is
“The system of education in the different countries”;
• The question of the educational theme:
“The common features and distinctions in the system of
education of different countries”;
• The question for the pupil’s research:
“Modern system of education in Great Britain, in the USA
and in our country, common features and distinctions”;

4. • The didactic purposes of the project:
“Development of skills of independent work with the
big volumes of the information and critical thinking”;
• The methodical tasks:
To expand representation about social life of the
country the learning language, its traditions in
education, to familiarize with features of separate
aspects of foreign teenagers’ life, to learn to use
multimedia presentation for registration of results of
the research, to learn to state briefly the ideas in the
oral and written form;

5. • The theme of the pupils researching:
“Education in Great Britain, in the USA and in Russia: the
common features and distinctions”;
• Definition of the problem:
“Why many citizens of different countries try to receive
education in Great Britain or in the USA?”;
• The hypothesis of the researching:
“Modern system of education in Great Britain and in the
USA has some advantages that makes it a standard of global
level and as a result leads in the world’s educational services
for foreign citizens. Modernization of system of education in
Russia is called to correct available lacks and to provide
achievement of the world standards”.

6. DEGRESS GENERAL (COMMON) AND
VOCATIONAL TRAINING
Steps of formation
(education)
Education institutions
General
(common)
Preschool Day nursery, day nursery – gardens, kindergartens
etc.
Initial (1-4)
the Basic (5-9)
Average (full)
10-11-classes
Initial, incomplete average and average
comprehensive schools, lice a average musical, art
and choreographic schools; schools – boarding
schools and physical development
Professional Initial Technical training colleges and other schools of the
given level
Average Technical schools, colleges, schools (medical,
musical, circus etc.)
The maximum
(supreme)
Academies, Universities, Institutes, Conservatories,
the higher schools, the maximum (supreme)
schools
Postgraduate Postgraduate studies, internships, doctoral studies,
courses of improvement of qualification

7. EDUCATION IN GREAT BRITAIN
 Primary school
5-11 years old, then pass the exam «11 plus»
 Secondary school
4 types of them: grammar school, secondary modern, technical and
comprehensive school -- 14 - 16 years, pupils take their GCSE
exams (General Certificate of Secondary Education)
 High school
16 to 18 years specialize in two or three subjects, then take the exams
General Certificate of Education Advanced level (A-Level)
 Post-school education
18-22 There are two different types of post-graduate courses
Universities and different types of assisted colleges, which tend to
provide more work-orientated courses :– 3 years - Bachelor
degree; 5 or 6 years -– the Master’s degree (MA or MSc);
the highest degree of Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), extra 2 or 3 years

8. EDUCATION IN THE USA
 Elementary school
6 to 12 or 15 years old, local free public schools, or to private schools and college
 Secondary school
14 - 18 years, pupils take their courses aimed at three or more levels:
– academic (The academic program is designed to prepare students for college)
- vocational (The vocational program prepares students either for
employment or further training and may give training in four fields: -
agricultural; - business education; - home economics; - trade and industrial
education);
- general (The program provides features of the academic and vocational
types. This program prepares students either for employment or further
training. and general).
The students pass the exams General Certificate of Education Advanced level (A-
Level)
 Post-school education
18 - 22 American higher education refers to study beyond the secondary school
level and almost always presuppose that a student has undertaken 12 previous
years of study. The terms “college” and “university” are often used
interchangeably

9. EDUCATION IN RUSSIA
There are many types of school (local free school, private school,college, lyceums, gymnasia)
 Primary school
6-7 – 10 years. There they are taught reading, writing and doing sums. They stay a primary
school for 4 years and then they are admitted to a secondary school.
 Secondary school
11 - 16 years, Children study a lot of school subjects, such as Mathematics, Literature,
Russian, Chemistry, a foreign language and so on. At 16 they take their final exams and
get a Certificate of general education .
16-18 they can continue their education at school, technical school, professional
college, or go to work. At school they can specialize for two years in two or
three subjects, in which they take the Certificate of general secondary education
 Post-school education
18 - 22 Russian higher education refers to study beyond the secondary school level. At the
Universities or Institutes students after 3 years can at the first obtain their Bachelor
degree then they can apply to take The second type of post-graduate courses – the
Master’s degree (MA or MSc), which takes 2 or 3 years.
 Postgraduate studies
Internships, doctoral studies, 4-5 years courses of improvement of qualification higher
degree of the Candidate of Sciences takes 4 or 5 years. The highest degree is the
Doctor of Sciences takes two or three years extra.