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Education in Britain

In Britain children start going to school when they are five and continue studying until they are sixteen or older. Many children in Britain attend nursery school from the age of about three, but these schools are not compulsory.

Compulsory education begins at the age of five, when children go primary school. Primary education lasts for six years. They tend the infant school from five to seven and then junior school until they are eleven.

In infant school children don't have real classes. They get acquainted with the classroom, desks, they mostly play and learn through playing. They know some numbers and also how to add them.

When children are seven real studying begins. They have classes, sit at desks, read and write and don't play as much as it was in infant school. Then pupils go to secondary school. Children study English, Mathematics, Science, Geography, History, Art, Music, a Foreign language and Physical education. The first three are called "core" subjects. Pupil take examinations in the core subjects at the age of 7, 11 and 14. Most secondary schools teach French and some other schools — Spanish, German, Italian and Russian.

After five years of secondary edu­cation, pupils take the General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) examination. Most pupils take examinations in all subjects. Ordinary Levels — nor­mally called "O"-levels. People take "O"-levels in as many subjects as they want to; some take just one or two, others take as many as nine or ten.

If you get good "O"-level results, you can stay on at school until you are 18. Here you prepare for Advanced Level Exams ("A"-levels). Again, you take as many of these as you want to. Most people take two or three. Three good "A"-level exams are the entrance exams for universities. But Oxford and Cambridge have special ones.

Higher education begins at eighteen and usually lasts for three or bur years. Students go to universities, polytechnics or colleges. There are now about 80 universities.

Some parents choose to send their children to private schools where hey pay for their education.

State education is free. More than 90% of Britain's children attend state schools.

education [.edju:'keih] - образование

attend [a 'tend] - посещать

nursery [nз:sri] – детский сад

compulsory [kam 'pls(a) ri] - обязательный

primary [praimari] - начальный

infant ['infant] - детский

get acquainted with [geta 'kweintid] – знакомиться с

desk [desk] - парта

secondary ['sek(a)nd(a)ri] - средний

study ['stdi] - изучать

Mathematics [mæθi'mætics] - математика

Science ['saians] – естествознание