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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 university
Origins 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.

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

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