Higher education in Great Britain
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Higher education in Great Britain typically requires A-level exam results in at least 2 subjects and interviews for admission. The academic year runs from October to June, with teaching done through lectures, seminars, tutorials, and laboratories. Degrees include Bachelor's (after 3 years), Master's (after 2 additional years with dissertation), and Doctorate (preparing original theses). Universities differ in history, size, traditions, and methods of instruction. Teaching is done by lecturers, readers, and professors. Other institutions include polytechnics offering degrees and colleges of education for teacher training. The Open University allows independent study for those unable to attend traditional universities.
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Higher education in Great Britain
- 1. HIGHER EDUCATION IN GREAT BRITAIN
- 2. REQUIREMENTS: good A-level results in at least 2 subjects interviews
- 3. ACADEMIC YEAR beginning of middle of October to April to the the middle end of June of December middle of January to the end of March
- 4. DEGREES Degree of Bachelor of Arts, Science, AFTER THREE YEARS Engineering, Medicine, etc OF STUDY LATER: Master's Degree needs two further years of study, with examination papers and substantial dissertations Doctor's Degree preparing theses which must make original contributions to knowledge
- 5. ENGLISH UNIVERSITIES DIFFER IN date of foundation way of size student life UNIVERSITY methods of history instruction general tradition organization
- 6. UNIVERSITY Effective Vice- governing chancellor body
- 7. TEACHING IS DONE BY Lecturer who produces published research papers who can be promoted to a reader Reader after this its necessary to move to another university to be appointed to a professor Professor
- 8. TEACHING IS DONE THROUGH lecture courses seminars (for 10 laboratories students) tutorial groups (for 3-4 students)
- 9. Council for National Academic Awards (CNAA) college which has developed a course at university level may apply to it, asking to have the course recognised as a degree-level course in its own right CNAA looks thoroughly at the structure and content of the courses, the teaching facilities of every kind and the proposed system of examination CNAA satisfied the college may then organise its own syllabuses, teaching and examinations
- 11. common rooms a chapel library lecture a hall COLLEGE rooms
- 12. founded in the nineteenth and the early part of the twentieth centuries London, Manchester, Leeds, Liverpool, Shetfield, and Birmingham
- 15. POLITECHNICS offer first and higher degrees offer full-time and sandwich courses (for working students) COLLEGES OF EDUCATION provide two-year courses in teacher education or sometimes three years if the graduate specializes in some particular subjects
- 16. study in their own free time attend lectures by watching TV and listening to the radio keep in touch by phone and letter with tutors attend summer schools have no formal qualifications are unable to enter ordinary universities
- 20. 25 British Margaret Thatcher Prime Ministers and Tony Blair King Harald V of Norway, King Abdullah II of 25 other international Jordan, three Prime leaders Ministers of Australia two Prime Ministers of India, and Bill Clinton 47 Nobel prize winners