Chapter 14: Education First of all, public schools are private schools. Got it Okay. These are exclusive and expensive schools. The state schools are funded by the government. Meaning it’s free. Public school system Schools funded by private sources, predominantly in the form of tuition charges, gifts and long-term charitable endowments, they are not subject to the conditions imposed by accepting state financing Public means private Schools funded by the government, either directly or via local education authorities are called state schools and education provided in this way is known as state education. This distinguishes it from private education, which comprises independent schools. The British Educational system is the same as they are elsewhere in Europe and north America full time education is compulsory up to the middle teenage years. Compulsory education is free of charge, but parents may spend money on educating their child privately if they want to. There are three recognized stages, with children moving from the first stage (primary) to the second stage secondary) at around the age of eleven or twelve. There are three matters about education in Britain. One is quality. Schoolchildren do not get taught properly and do not learn enough, and they are less literate and less numerate the other European schoolchildren. Second, there is no doubt that Britain suffers from a chronic shortage of teachers. Many young people embark on teacher-training courses, only half of them remain in the profession for longer than three years, so that schools often have an unsettle atmosphere due to rapid turnover of staff and class sizes are large. Why is it so hard for British schools to recruit, and keep teachers Probably the tradition of English anti-intellectualism, which means that it is difficult to persuade pupils to be interested in learning and teachers have low status. This status can become even worse precisely because of the general perception of poor educational standards. People blame the teachers for this. This means teachers have to spend a lot of time being inspected and filling informs. The other response (third) of British governments to perceived (waarnemen) deficiencies (tekortkomingen) in quality of education has been to revise the national curriculum.
