The system of education in great britain

Catholic-school girls and crippled orphans. 17. The 28-year-old is seated next to the 
president at a White House conference, poking light fun at Harvard graduate 
school team. 18. How did this sensitive, studious and scholarly side fit him for the 
leadership of two famous schools and an Oxford college? 19. His eldest son lied on 
his resume about graduating from law school and passing the bar exam. 20. That 
mind, trained at Yale and Harvard Law School, is focused on public policy. 21. Mr. 
Wu is a high-school dropout and unemployed factory worker. He hasn’t passed a 
bar exam or taken a single law course. 22. His mother lost control of him a couple 
years ago, when he started playing hooky from school. 23. I struggled at school 
near the bottom of the class in French, but at 27 started learning the difficult Hun-
garian language part-time. By age 30 I had paid translation work. 24. School cur-
ricular, which in the United States today are the litmus paper of social change, have 
stayed pretty much the same in Europe, on the sensible assumption that what stu-

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HE SYSTEM OF EDUCATION IN 
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REAT 
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RITAIN
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dents need to learn before entering the world has not been significantly altered.
 
Ex. 6. PLACES FOR EDUCATION: SCHOOLS. Fill in the gaps with a suitable word. 
boarding 
comprehensive 
cram 
first 
grammar 
high 
infant 
junior 
middle 
nursery 
play 
pre- 
preparatory 
primary 
private 
public 
secondary 
secondary modern 
sixth form 
technical
 
a private school for children aged between 13 and 18, whose parents pay for their 
education – ..... school; a school for children between ages of 11 and 16 or 18 – ..... 
school; a school concerned with the mechanical arts and applied sciences – ..... school; 
a school for children from about 9 to 13 years – ..... school; BrE a school for children 
from 5 to 9 years old – ..... school; a state school in Britain for children over the age of 
11 of different abilities – ..... school; a school for children between 5 and 11 years old 
in England and Wales – ..... school; a school supported wholly by the payment of fees 
– ..... school; a school in Britain for children aged 7 to 11 – ..... school; a school in Brit-
ain for children over the age of 11 who have to pass a special examination to go there 
– ..... school; a school where pupils are resident in term-time – ..... school; a type of 
school in Britain for students who are planning to take A-levels – ..... college; a school 
in Britain for schoolchildren below the age of 7 – .....school; a nursery school or kin-
dergarten – ..... school; a school for children between the ages of usu. 3 and 5 – ..... 
school; a grammar school BrE or a secondary school AmE – ..... school; a type of 
school for children who are not old enough to go to school – .....-school; a private 
school preparing pupils BrE for a public school, or AmE for college or university – ..... 
school.