Презентация на тему Secondary Education Schools

among all types of schools in secondary education: 84

% of all state – financed Secondary Schools are of this type. Most other children receive secondary education in Grammar, Secondary Modern and very few Secondary Technical Schools. Those who can pay go to Public Schools.

transition from Primary to Secondary School is made between

the age of 11-12 years. At this age only some children sit for the selective examinations to be admitted to Grammar Schools. “11+” is retained mostly in Wales.
Comprehensive Schools were introduced in 1965. The idea of comprehensive education, supported by the Labour Party, was to give all children of whatever background the same opportunity in education.

School mainly provides an exam-centred academic course from 11

to 18. It is the main route to the universities and the professions. A large proportion of university students is recruited from Grammar School, though they make 3% of all schools.

pupils remain at school unit 18 or 19 years

old, especially if they want to go on to a university. Some degree of specialization, especially as between arts and science subjects, is usual in the upper forms. The top form is always called the “sixth form”. Pupils may remain in this form for 2 – 3 years, until they leave school. Selection of Primary School children for Grammar School is usually based on school record cards, teachers’ reports, tests and consultation with parents. After the Reform Act of 1988 many Grammar School were turned into Comprehensive and the change was in many cases painful.

Secondary Modern Schools give a general education with a

practical bias. It is common for more time to be given to handicrafts, domestic sciences and other practical activities than in Grammar Schools. Foreign languages are not thought there.
“Streaming” is practiced in secondary modern schools. The children in each group are usually placed in three streams – A, B and C; C – stream is for children of the least academic type, concentrating mainly on practical work.

Schools, a smaller group (1%), offer a general education

largely related to industry commerce and agriculture. These schools are not very popular and few places have them. They provide teaching up to the age of 18.

16 students in England, Wales and Northern Ireland take

GCSE (the General Certificate of Secondary Education) examinations. In 1988 these examinations replaced the GCE (General Certificate of Education) and O-levels (Ordinary level). Which were usually passed by about 20 per cent of school students. GCSE examinations are taken by students of all levels of ability in as many subject as they can manage. GCSE may involve a final examinations and assessment of work done by the student during the two-year course, or both of these things. A broadly similar exam system exist in Scotland.

do not have enough academic courses for sixth-formers. Students

can transfer either to a grammar school or to a sixth-form college to get the courses they want.

go to university stay on at school to study

for A-level (Advanced level) in two, three or four subjects. It is a school leaving examination in a particular subject. In England and Wales students normally take it in two parts – at the age of 17 and 18. A student who studies for A-level in mathematics could say: “I am studying A-level maths”, or “I’ve got three A-levels.
It is necessary to have three or four A-levels to go to a university or Polytechnic

want to stay on at school after taking their

GCSE, to prepare for a vocational course or for work rather than for A-level examinations. Then they have to take the GNVQ exam that is General National Vocational Qualification, a type of qualification introduced in 1992 in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. It has prepare students to do certain jobs. It has several levels and can be taken at schools and colleges.

the SCE examinations (the Scottish Certificate of Education). A

year later, they can take examinations called Highers after which they can go straight to university

school; established 1440-41

age of:

9-10
10-11
11-12
12-13

Schools
Grammar Schools
Secondary Modern Schools
Secondary Technical Schools

schools are Comprehensive Schools

84
3
50
7

GCSE examinations at the age of

13
14
15
16

A-levels to go to a university or Polytechnic.

one or two
three or four
five or six
seven or eight