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1、Education,MediaandHolidaysEducationEducationalPolicyEducationalSystemEducationalPolicyCompulsoryeducationforallchildrenbetweentheagesof5and16Comprehensiveschoolsintroducedinthe1960sNationalCurriculumintroducedin1988Fourstages:primary(5-11)secondary(11-16)furthereducationhighereducationEducationalSys
2、temPrimaryandSecondaryEducationTwoparallelschoolsystems:Statesystem:11-yearcompulsoryeducationIndependentsystem—Publicschools“sixthform”(2years)HigherEducationFamousUniversitiesPre-schoolingBeforeprimaryschoolingsomechildrenhaveanopportunitytoattendthefewkindergartens,whicharecalled“NurserySchools”.
3、PrimaryandSecondaryEducationPrimarySchoolsTwosystemsmixedschoolsAcademicyearCurriculuminschoolStateSchoolsTheyarefundedbylocalandcentralgovernments(Freetoallchildrenbetweentheagesof5—16)IndependentschoolsIndependentschools:feesarerequired2500independentschoolsinBritain,includingEtonandWinchesterApri
4、vilegefortherichBetterfundedBetterteachersBetterfacilitiesBetterchancetoenterfamousuniversitiesTwoSystemsEtonCollege伊頓公學(xué)（EtonCollege）坐落在倫敦20英里的溫莎小鎮(zhèn)，是英國最著名的貴族中學(xué)，排名全球第一。地處白金漢郡的泰晤士河河畔，與女王鐘愛的溫莎宮隔岸相望，伊頓公學(xué)是一座古老的學(xué)府，由亨利六世于1440年創(chuàng)辦。伊頓以“精英搖籃”、“紳士文化”聞名世界，也素以軍事化的嚴(yán)格管理著稱，學(xué)生成績大都十分優(yōu)異，被公認(rèn)是英國最好的中學(xué)，是英國王室、政界經(jīng)濟(jì)界精英的培訓(xùn)之地。這
5、里曾造就過20位英國首相，培養(yǎng)出了詩人雪萊、經(jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)家凱恩斯，明星湯姆·希德勒斯頓，也是英國王位第二號(hào)繼承人，劍橋公爵威廉王子和哈里王子的母校。伊頓每年250名左右的畢業(yè)生中，70余名進(jìn)入牛津、劍橋，70%進(jìn)入世界名校。值得一提的是，在一戰(zhàn)中英國男子在沙場(chǎng)上戰(zhàn)死率約為11%，而從伊頓公學(xué)畢業(yè)的男子的戰(zhàn)死率則高達(dá)40%之高。其中騎士精神可見一斑。Co-educatedSchoolsStateprimaryschoolsadmitbothboysandgirls(agedfrom5to11).Theseschoolsarecalledco-educationalormixedschools.Acad
6、emicYearBeginsinSeptember,andisdividedintothreeterms,withholidaysatChristmas,Easter,andinthesummer.TheNationalCurriculumCompulsoryinstateschoolOptionalinindependentschoolCurriculum:Mathematics,English,Science,Geography,History,Technology,Music,Arts,PhysicaleducationandaforeignlanguageSecondaryEducat
7、ionThechildrenbeginsecondaryeducationattheageof11.TypesofsecondaryschoolsExaminationsTypesofSecondarySchoolsIndependentandpublicSchools◆Independentschoolsarealsoconfusinglycalledpublicschools.◆Indepen
