Chapter 4 Education

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Chapter 4 Education
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Change Reform in Schools

• From tripatite traipatait system to
  comprehensive system
• - What do you understand by the term streaming.
  Is it a reasonable system?

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• tripartite system
• secondary moderns manual workers
• technical school skilled workers
• grammar school university professionals /
  managers
• comprehension system
• comprehensive school
• grammar school / private school (15)

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School Today

• Primary schools
• Secondary schools
• GCSE General Certificate of Secondary Education
• GCE A level General Certificate of Education,
  Advanced level
• GNVQ General National Vocational Qualification
• University

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The National Curriculum

• English
• Design Technology
• Geography
• Maths
• Information Technology
• Music

• Science
• Art
• Physical Education
• History
• Modern foreign language

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• Independent schools
• Achievement and Social Class

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Institutions of Higher Education

• Universities
• BA / BSc 3 years full-time
• MA / MSc 1 year full-time / 2 years part-time
• PhD at least 3 years original research
• p64 2.

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• Oxford

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Famous Students

• Oscar Wilde
• Hugh Grant
• Samuel Johnson
• Bill Clinton
• Chelsea Clinton
• Tony Blair
• Margaret Thatcher
• Edward Heath

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• Cambridge

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Famous Students

• John Milton
• Charles Darwin
• Prince Charles
• Rachel Weisz

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• Of the 53 Prime Ministers to date, 40 studied at
  Oxbridge, 11 did not go to university, and only
  2, Earl Russell and Neville Chamberlain, went to
  other universities (Edinburgh and Birmingham
  respectively).
• 14 attended Cambridge (including 6 at Trinity),
  and 26 attended Oxford (including 14 at Christ
  Church).

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• Life at University
• p65 3

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• The Open University
• The Open University (OU) is the United Kingdom's
  only university dedicated to distance learning.
• no previous qualifications
• be aged 18
• no upper age limit
• 150,000 undergraduate
• more than 30,000 postgraduate students
• 10,000 of our students have disabilities

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Further Education Training

• Further Education Colleges
• Vocationalism