British education

British education emas us to develop fully the abilities of

individuals, for their own benefit and of society as a whole. Compulsory

schooling takes place between the agers of 5 and 16, but some pupils

remain at shool for 2 years more, to prepare for further higher

education. Post shool education is organized flaxebly, to provide a wide

range of opportunities for academic and vacational education and to

continue studying through out life.

Administration of state schools is decentralised. The department of

education and science is responsible for national education policy, but

it doesn't run any schools, if doesn't employ teachers, or prescribe

corricular or textbooks. All shools are given a considerable amount of

freedom. According to the law only one subject is compulsary. That is

religious instruction.

Children recieve preschool education under the age of 5 in nursery

schools or in infant's classes in primary schools.

Most pupils receive free education finenst from public fonds and the

small proportions attend schools wholy independent. Most independent

schools are single-sex, but the number of mixing schools is growing.

Education within the mantained schools system usually comprises two

stages: primary and secondary education. Primary schools are subdevided

into infant schools (ages 5 - 7), and junior schools (ages 7 - 11).

Infant schools are informal and children are encouraged to read, write

and make use of numbers and develop the creative abilities. Primary

children do all their work with the same class teacher exept for PT and

music. The work is beist upon the pupils interests as far as possible.

The junior stage extence over four years. Children have set pirits of

arithmetic, reading, composition, history, geography nature study and

others. At this stage of schooling pupils were often placed in A, B, C

and D streams according their abilities. The most able children were put

in the A stream, the list able in the D stream. Till reccantly most

junior shool children had to seat for the eleven-plus examination. It

usually consisted of an arithmetic paper and an entelligent test.

According to the results of the exam children are sent to Grammar,

Technical or Secondary modern schools. So called comprehansive schools

began to appear after World War 2. They are muchly mixed schools which

can provide education for over 1000 pupils. Ideally they provide all the

courses given in Grammar, Technical and Secondary modern schools.

By the law all children must receive full-time education between the

ages of 5 and 16. Formally each child can remain a school for a further

2 or 3 years and continue his studies in the sixth form up to the age of

18 or 19. The course is usually subdevided into the lower 6 and the

upper 6. The corricular is narrowed to 5 subjects of which a pupil can

choose 2 or 3.

The main examinations for secondary school pupils are general

certeficate of education (the GCE) exam and certificate of secondary

education (the CSE) exam. The GSE exam is held at two levels: ordinary

level (0 level) and advanced level (A level).

Candidats set for 0 level papers at 15 - 16 years away. GCE level is

usually taken at the end on the sixth form. The CSE level exam is taken

after 5 years of secondary education by the pupils who are of everage

abilities of their age.