The Education System In Britain

Curriculum stage
Schools
3	Nursery	Foundation Stage	Nursery school
4	Reception		Infant school	Primary school	First school
5	Year 1	Key Stage 1
6	Year 2
7	Year 3	Key Stage 2	Junior school
8	Year 4
9	Year 5				Middle school
10	Year 6
11	Year 7	Key Stage 3	Secondary school	Secondary school with sixth form
812	Year 8
13	Year 9				Upper school or High school
14	Year 10	Key Stage 4 / GCSE
15	Year 11
16	Year 12 (Lower Sixth)	Sixth form / A level	Sixth form college
17	Year 13 (Upper Sixth)

Education System in Uzbekistan

	Education			School/Level			Grades			Age	Years	Notes
		Primary	Primary		1–4	6–10		4	Primary and secondary education is compulsory
		Middle	General Secondary		5–9	10–15		5	grants access to academic and specialized post-secondary programs
		Secondary	Technical Secondary			15–17		2
		Secondary	Upper Secondary		10–11	15–17		2	Lyceum, Gymnasium
		Vocational	Specialized Secondary			17–19		3
		Tertiary	Bachelor					4
		Tertiary	Diploma of Physician					7
		Tertiary	Master					2
		Tertiary	Doctorate					6

Primary Education

In Uzbekistan 11 years of education are compulsory and free, beginning with 4 years at primary school, and followed by 2 phases of secondary education taking 5 and 2 years respectively. Primary school begins at age 6 and there is no specific leaving examination after the 4 years are complete.

Secondary Education

The next 5 years are spent at general secondary school from ages 10 to 15. Following that, there is a choice of between 2 to 3 years of upper education at either general or technical vocational schools. The former provides a certificate of completed secondary education and the opportunity to enter university, the latter a diploma of specialized secondary education, through a network of secondary vocational institutions.

Vocational Education

Unemployment remains relatively high, and there are many people desperately in need of new or more appropriate skills. There are a number of state and donor programs in place to address the structural training shortfall. Eventually, the goal is to meet European union standards.

Tertiary Education

Non university-level tertiary education is provided by national enterprise training centers and a number of business schools, as well as lycea that train professionals in new economic and service fields. Higher education is available from several universities and over 50 higher education institutes.

The flagship is the Taškent Islamic University opened not many years ago. On its grounds still stands the mausoleum of the grandfather of the Mughal Emperor Basbur dating from the 15th Century.

Handouts.

1. 
   Match these words and word expressions with their definitions:
   

1. Correspondence courses a) Course Management System

2. Telecourses b) to conduct through regular mail with little interaction
3. CD-Rom courses c) the act of enrolling on a course
4. Mobile learning d) where content is delivered via radio or television broadcast
5. Enrolment e) the book for posting and managing student grades
6. CMS f) where the student interacts with static computer content
7. Gradebook g) to learn by phones, PDAs and digital audio players.

2. 
   Fill the gaps using the words given above:
   

Within the past decade, 1 ______________________ has had major impact on education system. Especially, 2 ______________________ is very convenient.

Even you are at home, you can easily contact with them by internet. Distance learning has a long history and there are several types available today, including 3:____________________ . By this course you can study at home, receiving your work by post and sending it back by post. And, 4 _____________________ by it you can interact with your computer content. Moreover, there is 5 ____________
which you can study using phones. One of the main parts of online learning is
6 ____________________. It allows teachers to design and deliver their courses with a number of different tools to enable learning and communication. For instance, 7 ______________________ is for making students grades.

3. 
   Fill the missing letters in these sentences:
   

1. Online learning is the newest and the most popular form of d _ _ t _ _ c _ education today.

2. Within the past d _ c _ _ e it has had a major impact on postsecondary education and trend is only increasing.
3. Online learning is education that takes place over the I n _ _ r _ _ t .
4. Distance learning has a long h _ s _ _ r y and there are several types available.
5. Over 1 million students were studying o _ l _n _ in the fall of 2003.
6. Online courses provide an excellent m _ t _ o _ of course delivery unbound by time.
7. Online courses offer more opportunities for reflection in depth d _ s _ _ s_ i _n.

4. 
   Crossword.
   

5. 
   Mixed sentences