Education in Great Britain, USA and Czech Republic
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- they offer undergraduate courses of 4 years of study
- after successful completion they are awarded Bachelor’s degree
(Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Science)
- some universities also award Master’s degrees in humanities and
science after 3 years of study, and Doctoral Degrees after 5 years of
study
- well known universities are: Harward
Yale University
Princeton University
- 25 % of all universities and colleges are private
- each university has different curriculum
- the students must choose major subjects and elective or minor
subjects
c) Czech Republic
Characteristic: - compulsory from 6 to 15
- most children attend state schools, but there are newly established private and church schools
- at state schools education is up to 18 free of charge, but they must pay textbooks
- children do not wear uniforms
- handicapped children are educated separately
- the school year starts on 1st September and finish 30th June, and is divided into two terms
- every term students get school report (end of January and June)
- education includes these stages: pre-school
primary
secondary
tertiary
Pre-school education: - provided by crèches13 for children up to 3 and by nursery schools for children from 3 to 6
- not many children attend crèches, but a lot of them attend kindergartens
Primary education: - they start at 6 and they stay there till 15
- they can then go to secondary school
- if parents want, their children can go to grammar school14 at 11 after passing
examination
Secondary education: - they can choose between: grammar school - prepare students for university study
special school – it is very focused
vocational school – training for practical jobs
- usually lasts for 4 years and it is finished with school leaving examination, which is
required by all universities and colleges
- at grammar school the examination is taken from Czech, foreign subject and 2 other
- at specialised school the examination includes five or more subjects
- the examination is in May (oral) and from Czech also written one month before
- each subject has about 25 to 30 questions
- after passing the examination they receive School-Leaving Certificate
Tertiary education: - includes Universities and Colleges
- it lasts from 4 to 6 years
- before they are taken to the school they must pass the entrance examination
- the examination consists from written test and interview.
- the well known universities: Charles University – established 1348, Prague
Masaryk University – Brno
Palcký University – Olomouc
Purkyně University – Ústí nad Labem
- undergraduate can study a variety of subjects (law, medicine, arts,…)
- students can enrol15 at three year courses for a Bachelor’s degree or four and five year
courses for Master’s degree, medicine usually lasts 6 years
- the study is finished with a state examination - every undergraduate16 has to write a thesis17 in order to receive a diploma in certain18
field of study
- the thesis is handed over19 at the graduation ceremony