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5-11 primary schools---co-educational/mixed schools because---both boys and girls 11- 19 secondary schools---90% of which are comprehensive schools

The rest (10%) attend grammar schools

(select students, the exam is called the 11-plus)

11-16 (English, Northern Ireland and Welsh) sit GCSE exams

At the age of 16, they make decision:

1. quit school and find a job;

2. or they prepare to sit exams for university entrance---further 2 years---GCEA

3. Vocational training --- GNVQ General National Vocational Qualifications

Purpose: UK Am

Kinds: UK: State schools---private schools Am: Public schools 90%, private schools 10%

Management: National Curriculum: UK National Curriculum (in 1989) Am National Curriculum

Higher education: UK 1. A long history; 2. People of different ages and nationalities; world class

Am: four categories of education; how to apply for colleges British education acts and polices:

The 1944 Education Act (meritocratic);

comprehensive schools (in the 1960s);

American acts and polices:

the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act in1944;

Affirmative Action Programs (at the end of 1960s)

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