IV. Thinking and discussion

1. Answer the questions, discuss in small groups:

1) THE SYSTEM OF BRITISH SCHOOL EDUCATION

1. What is the age of compulsory education in GB?

2. Administration of state schools is decentralized. What does it mean?

3. Where can children receive preschool education?

4. Is secondary education in GB free of charge?

5. What are the peculiarities of private schools?

6. What stages does education within the maintained schools system usually comprises?

7. What exam do junior schoolchildren have to take to transfer to secondary school?

8. What types of secondary schools do you know? What is the difference between them?

9. What is the sixth form?

10. What are the main examinations for secondary school pupils?

2) THE SYSTEM OF BRITISH HIGHER EDUCATION

1. What groups of universities are there in GB?

2. Are British universities state or private institutions?

3. Do British students receive any grants?

4. At what age do English young people enter a university?

5. What is the proportion of men and women attending English universities?

6. What subjects are considered to be arts subjects? What do they call pure and applied sciences?

7. What do you understand by internal and external students?

8. How do teaching institutes provide instruction to English students?

9. Why are the colleges of Oxford and Cambridge called residential institutions?

10. What is understood by tutors and the tutorial method? Is the tutorial system used in other universities of England?

11. How many terms is the University year divided into? How long do they last?

12. What vacations do English students have?

13. What do many English students do during their long summer holiday?

14. What do the terms B.A., B. Sc., M.A. or M. Sc. stand for?

15. What is the Open University? What are the peculiarities of the Open University?

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