? Primary and secondary education is compulsory. After that, students can continue to receive further education and higher education, or they can work at the age of 16. Scotland's education system is slightly different.
? Primary and secondary schools and compulsory education
? The British government provides free education for all students under the age of 19 through public primary schools, secondary schools and continuing education colleges. However, some parents prefer to spend money to send their children to private schools.
? Students usually study 8-/kloc-0-2 different subjects in middle school. /kloc-At the age of 0/6, students in England, Northern Ireland and Wales have to take the General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) exam, while students in Scotland have to take the StandardGrade exam.
? continuing education
? Education after GCSE can be called? Continuing education? A year or two. Continuing education can be divided into two categories: academic education and vocational education.
? Academic education
? The academic continuing education courses in England, Northern Ireland and Wales are composed of secondary school quasi-advanced level examination (AS-Level) courses and secondary school advanced level examination (A-Level) courses to prepare for higher education.
? In Scotland, students in continuing education have intermediate certificate, quasi-advanced certificate and advanced certificate courses.
? vocational education
? These courses are designed for students to prepare for entering the workplace or continuing to study vocational higher education courses.
? higher education
? You must be at least 18 years old (Scotland 17 years old) to study higher education courses. Higher education includes:
? 1, bachelor's degree, master's degree and doctor's degree, professional national diploma in higher education (DipHE) and other academic courses.
? 2. Vocational higher education courses.
? Preparatory courses and bridging courses
? The education system in your country may be different from that in Britain. If this happens, bridging courses and preparatory courses are good choices.