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The Education System of the UK Name:张靖 Student Number:200900111154The UK is a country with a long education tradition. Its education system has become quite perfect and very flexible after several years of evolution. Overall, it can be divided into three phases: Compulsory Education , Further Education and Higher Education. More detail, five stages it can be divided into:The first stage is age 3 to 5 years old kindergarten education; The second stage is age 5 to 11 years old primary school education; The third stage is age 11 to 16 years old secondary education. Age 5 to 16 years old is the compulsory education stage in law.The law prescribes that all children must go to school when they get school age. The State will responsible for the required tuition, books and necessary supplies. Age 16 to 18 years is high school senior class , which is regarded as the transition period of the secondary school to university ; The fourth stage is university education. Generally, from the age of 18, can a person obtain bachelors degree after 3-4 years undergraduate life. The fifth stage is the continuing education after the age of 16,including youth and adult vocational education (not counting regular college), styles range from a full day, half-day and leisure time. The length of schooling in all localities, departments, professional vary. In UK, students receiving compulsory education from the age of 4, they enjoy the national welfare of all free, schools even offers a free lunch! All parents must put their children to school if they dont want to break the law. Their primary education continues to the age of 11, then go to middle school. In the UK education system, continuing education is the most distinctive and the most exciting part. Its purpose is to lay a basic for higher education or employment, as well as the key stage for China high school student studying in the UK. Students receive continuing education in general between 16 and 18 years old. It is divided into two systems: academic route and vocational route. Academic route focuses on training academic research talents, vocational route is a combination of professional needs at all levels of society to develop talents in a variety of industries with specialized skills and knowledge. The two systems are equally valued in the UK. As the name suggests, higher education in the UK education system is an advanced stage, which includes: Bachelor Degree, Master Degree, Doctorial Degree，HND-Higher National Diploma. High education is usually provided by the University. However, many Colleges also offer Bachelor and HND courses as well. It is full of variety that the UK vocational education can be described, from beautician to the graphic art designers, from infant care to the aircraft maintenance professional, and everything. If you have a good practical ability or you have special expertise in certain areas (such as art, computer operations, etc.), you can choose to go the way of vocational education. The vocational education and academic routes have some correspondence, students can choose entering different stages of academic route according to their academic performance. This approach gives students more choice, so that different types of students can give full play to their strengths and potential.The academic year of undergraduate degree is three years, but some special professional requires four years or more, such as medicine. In Britishs eyes, the medical and the legal profession is the most difficult to obtain a professional. The two courses have something in common:human life. If you want to get into the UK universities degree, there are a number of undergraduate route, the most common is relying on three A-Level results. If you have achieved GNVQ Advanced Diploma , you are also qualified for applying for most university undergraduate courses. However, the best universities in UK such as Oxford, Cambridge and the LSE is generally not enough just by GNVQ results. It is said that only a few can be admitted through an interview in the A-Level students with distinction.The UKs postgraduate courses only need one year, which different from China and the U.S. Students in this year mainly focus on writing papers and doing research, less teaching. Therefore students from other countries without a period of language learning or language is not qualified, it is very difficult to complete the course this year. Some College specially designed a graduate preparatory course to help students successfully enter graduate courses and successfully get degree programs. Requirements for entering the graduate program is that he (she) should have got a bachelors degree, a period of relevant work experience will be also very helpful.Education system in UK is q