2. EDUCATION IN UNITED KINGDOM
Prepared By: Nicole Shane M. Ngolab, RPm

3. RANDOM IMMIGRATION CHECK POINT NAME THREE CITIES IN UNITED KINGDOM
NAME ONE FAMOUS UNIVERSITY
YES OR NO
IS EDUCATION IN UNITED KINGDOM COMPULSORY?

4. OBJECTIVES:
a.) Describe and explain the different types of schools in United Kingdom.
b.)Describe and explain United Kingdom’s educational system.
c.) Differentiate the major stages of United Kingdom’s educational system

5. Y E S !

6. TYPES OF SCHOOLS STATE SCHOOL – non fee paying school run by state
For Secondary:
a.) Comprehensive School- a state school where students of all abilities are taught together
b.) Grammar School – a school for children with high academic abilities

7. PRIVATE SCHOOL
– fee paying school sometimes connected with one religion
PUBLIC SCHOOL
– fee paying school that is long established
a.) Boarding School – a school where the students live
b.) Single Sex School – all boys / all girls school

8. PRIMARY STAGE 5 – 11 years old
INFANT SCHOOL -(5 -7 years old) – Emphasis on the 3R’s : Reading, wRiting, aRithmetic
JUNIOR SCHOOL ( 7 years old – 11 years old) –
Core Subjects: English, Mathematics, Science

9. STANDARD ASSESSMENT TEST
Test that students take at the ages 7, 11 and 14 , to see whether they have reached the standard set by the national curriculum.
11+ / ELEVEN PLUS EXAM
-It examines the ability of students to solve problems using verbal and non verbal reasoning
Determines whether a student will go to a grammar school or a comprehensive school.

10. SECONDARY STAGE/ LEVEL
11 – 16 years old
Year
Subjects: Art, Geography, Music, History, Design and Technology, Information and Communications Technology, Physical Education, Religious Education, Sex and Relationship Education, Careers Education, Citizenship.

11. GENERAL CERTIFICATE ON SECONDARY EDUCATION
Test taken by 15/16 year old students
Usually taken in 5 subjects
Core Subjects: English, Mathematics and Science
Additional Subjects: Music, Art and etc.
Marks the end of the compulsory education
Students have the choice to work or continue to further studies

12. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
School lasts from 9 am – 3:20/5:00 pm
Lessons are 1 hour 15 minutes long
Usually breaks lasts 20 minutes
Usually lunch breaks last an hour and fifteen minutes.

13. FURTHER STUDIES / Sixth Form
ages
Academic Qualifications or Vocational Qualifications
Vocational Qualifications
work-related qualifications
designed to enable the learner to acquire knowledge and skills that are required by the national occupational standards (NOS) to be able to perform a particular job

14. ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS
students typically study A-levels, further academic qualifications required of students before they enter higher education and a degree program.
A LEVELS
a public exam taken by students at the age of 17 or 18
First Year – AS Level Exams
Second Year- A2s Exams

15. HIGHER EDUCATION/ UNIVERSITIES
18+
Bachelor’s Degree/ Undergraduate Degree
Postgraduate Program
PhD

16. University of Cambridge
SOME UNIVERSITIES IN UNITED KINGDOM
University of Oxford
University of Cambridge

17. University College London
Imperial College London
King’s College London
University of Edinburgh
University of Manchester

18. ACTIVITY