Education in the UK

1. What is pre-school education? When does it begin? Is pre-school education free?

2. What is compulsory education? Which stages of education are non-compulsory?

3. What pre-school institutions are there in the UK? What is the difference between them?

4. What is a kindergarten? Who invented it? What is a forest kindergarten?

5. What is a reception stage?

6. Name the stages of primary education.

7. Do children have to take exams to be admitted to primary school?

8. How long do children attend primary school?

9. How long do classes last in primary school?

10. What is an after-school club?

11. What subjects do children study at primary school?

12. Do primary school pupils have homework?

13. How many teachers do they have in primary school?

14. What is the difference between infants’ and junior school?

15. What exams do pupils have to take during their school years? How are these exams called?

16. When do pupils have to take their first exam?

17. What is 11+ exam? Why was it stopped and when?

18. Why and when did comprehensive schools appear?

19. Are the pupils punished? How? How did the use to be punished?

20. How many stages does children’s education from 5 to 16 include?

21. Name the 3 levels of school management and their functions.

22. What is meant by the National Education Acts?

23. Who is the head of school?

24. What is an LEA? What are its functions?

25. Are schools free of charge? How are schools funded?

26. What is a grant-maintained school? Is it run by LEAs?

27. Who does the board of governors consist of? What types of governors do you know?

28. What is Parents’ and Teachers’ Association. What is meant by parents’ evenings?

29. What is an independent school? What is a private school? What is a public school? Why is it called so? What is its history? What is a boarding school?

30. What is an “old school tie” and how does it help in a career?

31. Which private schools are included into the “Clarendon Nine”?

32. Who are Etonians?

33. What is the Common Entrance exam?

34. What is the difference between public schools in Great Britain and the USA?

35. What is the difference between a day school and a boarding school?

36. What is a grammar school? Why is it called so? Are grammar schools free? Are they state or private?

37. What advantages do grammar school leavers have?

38. What is a secondary modern school? Could secondary modern school leavers enter a university?

39. What is a special school?

40. What is a preparatory school?

41. What is meant by extra-curricular activities?

42. What is careers advice/careers guidance? Who is a careers advisor/careers officer?

43. What is the National Curriculum? When was it introduced?

44. What is meant by National Curriculum Tests? What is their old name?

45. Is there the national curriculum in the USA?

46. What is a SAT and ACT (the USA)? What is the difference between them?

47. When do pupils start to learn a modern foreign language?

48. What core subjects do children have to study according to the National Curriculum?

49. What foundation subjects do children have to study according to the National Curriculum?

50. What is the school syllabus? What is the difference between a syllabus and a curriculum?

51. What are the three R’s?

52. What do Science pupils study?

53. What do Art pupils study?

54. What is Home Economics?

55. When do children do SATs?

56. What is GCSE? What grades do pupils receive after GCSE exams? Which grades show the best results?

57. What is the Scottish equivalent of GCSE?

58. Can pupils leave school at 16?

59. What opportunities do pupils have after passing GCSE exams?

60. Do pupils take O-level exams today?

61. What is GNVQ? What is it equivalent to?

62. What is NVQs? What is the difference between NVQs and GNVQ?

63. What is meant by school performance tables (= “league” tables)?

64. What is an A-level exam?

65. How many A-levels do students usually take?

66. What grades do students receive as a result of A-level exams? Which grades show the best results?

67. Explain the term ‘sixth form’.

68. What is a sixth form college?

69. What are the names of final school exams in Scotland?

70. What is a gap year?

71. When do young people usually enter a university (age)?

72. What is the difference between higher education and further education?

73. What is a tertiary education?

74. What is “UCAS”?

75. Which institutions grant degrees? Which institutions grant certificates and diplomas? What is the difference between them?

76. What is meant by Polytechnics? What do they specialize in?

77. Do Polytechnics offer first and further degrees?

78. What is the synonym to continuing education? What courses do students usually take? When and where do they have classes?

79. What is ‘open learning’? What is ‘Open University’? Who can study there? What is an access course? How is the teaching process organized? What are the advantages of open learning?

80. What is meant by book-based learning and correspondence courses?

81. What is the difference between distant learning, open learning and correspondence courses?

82. What is vocational training? Where does it take place?

83. What is an equivalency exam (the USA)?

84. Comment on the meaning of the word ‘college’.

85. What is the difference between Polytechnics, universities and Colleges of Education?

86. What is the difference between colleges and universities in the USA?

87. What is a community college (the USA)?

88. What is an associate’s degree?

89. How long do students usually study for a degree?

90. What is a first degree?

91. What is an honours degree? What is the difference between an honours degree and an ordinary degree?

92. What is a postgraduate course?

93. What do you need to do to get a Master’s Degree? What do you need to do to get a Master’s Degree at Oxford and Cambridge?

94. What are the conditions of getting a PhD? How long does it take to obtain this degree?

95. What is a redbrick university?

96. What is a ‘concrete and glass’ university (plate-glass university)?

97. Are A-levels the only requirement for entering a university? What are the entry requirements/college application process?

98. Is further education free? How much is it per year (in the UK universities)? What do students have to pay for?

99. What is a tuition fee? How do students pay for their education? What is a student loan?

100. Do students receive grants to pay for their education?

101. Why do students have to work part time?

102. How many terms is the academic year divided into? How long do they last? How long do holidays last? How are they called?

103. What is the difference between a term and a semester?

104. What is an assessment period?

105. What is the difference between skipping classes and dropping a class?

106. What is observation period?

107. What is block-teaching practice?

108. What is a sandwich course?

109. What is meant by practicals?

110. What is the difference between a tutorial, a supervision and a seminar?

111. What is meant by visual aids?

112. What is a major and a minor at an American university/college?

113. What is the difference between a tutor and a tutorial?

114. Who are teaching assistants? Who are trainee teachers?

115. What teachers teach at colleges and universities? Enumerate them in the hierarchical order.

116. Who is a fellow? Who is a don?

117. Who is a chancellor, what are his functions like? Who is a vice chancellor and what are his functions like? Name the present chancellors of Oxford, Cambridge, London Universities.

118. What can be found on the campus? What is an academic building? What is a quad?

119. How long can students stay in the halls of residence? What is the AmE for the halls of residence? What is the difference between a hostel and halls of residence?

120. What are the functions of a student’s union?

121. What is a rag week?

122. Who are alumni? What is homecoming?

123. What is a meal plan?

124. What English language tests do you know? Why do people take them?

125. What qualification is required for a career in teaching in the UK?

126. How can you achieve qualified teacher status?

127. What is initial teacher training?

128. What are the ways to get professional qualification in teaching?

129. What check are future teachers subject to and why? Explain each point.

130. THINK OF A QUESTION OF YOUR OWN J!

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