英美国家社会与文化

姓名：肖珊

专业班级：理学院信息与计算科学１０１班

学号：５５０１２１００４６

上课时间：周三晚上上课

The Introduction of British Education

As

we

know,

British

is

a

country

with

centuries-old

educational

tradition.

After

hundreds

of

years

of

evolution,

its

education

system

has

become

quite

complete and complex, and been very flexible.

British education aims to help the

child

develop

their

individual

ability,

and

train

them

to

make

contributions

to

society

when

they

grow

up.

In

general,

it

can

be

divided

into

three

parts,

compulsory education,further education and higher education.

In Britain, children can enjoy the compulsory education from their five to their

sixteen,

and

enjoy

all

the

free

state

welfare.

Schools

are

even

offering

free

lunches.

But

all

of

the

parents

must

send

their

children

to

the

school

to

study.

Primary school education generally continued to eleven, then come into the middle

school.

Most of public school in Britain combine infant school and junior school

into

primary

school.

What's

more,

British

primary

school

differs

from

that

in

China.

Children in Britain are much easier and more relaxed.

Maybe it is one

of

the

advantages

of

British

education

system.

British

middle

school

is

not

divided into junior and high.

It lasts from form one to form five for five years.

Students

who

age

between

13

to

16

are

going

to

enter

the

independent

school,

which is similar to our middle school.

Their basic task is to make preparations

for

the

GCSE

test,

which

is

an

educational diploma

for

ordinary

middle

school.

And the gain of the GCSE diploma marks that the students can graduate from the

middle school.

Further

education

is

the

most

characteristic

and

the

best

part

in

British

education

system.

It

is

the

third

level

education

after

primary

and

secondary.

Because they can't enter the university at once.

The accomplishment of GCSE is

the same as the finish of Grade 1 in senior high school in China.

So the further

education

can

equal

to

Grade

2

and

Grade

3

in

senior

high

school

in

China.

Generally speaking, the students who accept further education are always between

16 and 18.

It also can be divided into two systems, academic route and career

route.

Academic route focuses on training of talents and sending these students

to

go

to

university

after

the

necessary

courses

and

UCAS

application

procedure

while

career

route

focuses

on

combining

each

aspect

of

professional

need

and

training talents with special skills and knowledge in various industries.

Just

as

its

name

implies,

higher

education

is

the

senior

stage

in

British

education system.

It includes bachelor degree, master degree, doctor degree and

HND-higher

national

diploma.

Usually,

higher

education

is

provided

by

university, but many colleges offer bachelor and HND courses.

There are almost

89

universities

in

Britain,

and

the

scale,

the

sites

and

the

courses

are

much

different in every university.

Universities pay great attention to the cultivation of

the students' independent learning ability, they provide a wide range of choices for

the

students

who

are

aspiring

to

enter

university.

So

students

usually

need

to

complete a research or write a paper in the last year of the undergraduate course,

which will be regarded as the according to decide whether the students can receive

the degree level or not.