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Perhaps surprisingly, the British people were one of the last in Europe to benefit from a formal, state-run and organised system of education. The rapid development of many different types of industry in the 19th Century and the creation of new businesses and trades made having an educated population (and thus workforce) necessary to the economic well-being of the country.
More recently and on the other side of the Atlantic in America, private education has been gaining ground steadily, as many parents see it as the best way of offering a richer, more secure and result-orientated academic experience to their children.
This brief but informative document provides a concise overview of the British and American educational systems, their similarities and differences.
In America, higher education takes a variety of forms, ranking from the extremely accessible to the very elite. The least selective institutions are junior colleges, institutions which offer primarily vocational education, but which may also have academic programs (...)
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Comparing the British and American Educational Systems | 1.5 pages | | | €1.80 |
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