The principal post-school institutions of higher education are the 47 universities (including the Open University), of which 36 are in England, 8 in Scotland, 2 in Northern Ireland and 1 in Wales. The English universities are: Aston (Birmingham), Bath, Birmingham, Bradford, Bristol, Brunei (London), Cambridge, City (London), Durham, East Anglia, Essex, Exeter, Hull, Keele, Kent […]
The following stage in the British educational system is further education. The term ‘further education’ can be used in a general sense to cover all post-school education, and it usually refers to post-school, non-university education. Much of the further education is broadly vocational in purpose. Young people have several options at 16. They can stay […]
The educational system of Great Britain is heavily class-conditioned, both historically and actually. Inequalities in schooling cause differences in the internal structure of schools themselves and in the content of teaching. This reflects the differences in the social class composition of the student bodies. Not surprisingly, the results of schooling differ greatly for children of […]
There is a considerable choice of post-school education in Britain. In addition to universities, there are also polytechnics and a series of different types of assisted colleges, such as colleges of technology, art, etc., which tend to provide more work-orientated courses than universities. Some of these courses are part-time, with the students being released by […]
In England and Wales compulsory school begins at the age of five, but before that age children can go to a nursery school, also called play school. School is compulsory till the children are 16 years old. In Primary School and First School children learn to read and write and the basis of arithmetic. In […]
In England, the Department of Education and Science is responsible for all levels of education. Universities, however, are self-governing and depend on the government only for financial grants. Education is compulsory between the ages of five and sixteen. About one-third of primary and secondary schools in England are administered by Anglican or Roman Catholic voluntary […]
The legal basis of the system is the Education Act 1944, and the amendments made by fourteen Acts of Parliament between 1946 and 1972. The 1944 Act prescribes the duty of government, local education authorities and parents in a system which is compulsory for those aged five to sixteen, and which contains optional preschool and […]
Education is compulsory between the ages of five and sixteen. The minimum leaving age has been raised from fifteen to sixteen in 1972—73. Compulsory schooling is divided into a primary and secondary stage. The transition from primary to secondary schooling is normally made around the age of eleven. Since the Education Act, 1964, gave local […]
Primary education includes three age ranges: nursery forchildren under five years, infants from five to seven or eight, and juniors from seven or eight to eleven or twelve years. Attendance is voluntary, but much sought after, for children under five. They may attend one of the rare publicly maintained nursery schools, an independent nursery school, […]
Secondary schools are generally much larger than primary schools. Over half have between 400 and 800 pupils. The largest schools have 2,000. There were 5,400 maintained secondary schools in 1970 with 3 million pupils, 178 direct grant schools with 119,000 pupils and 2,775 independent secondary schools, including the famous “public1’ schools, with over 43,000 pupils. […]
