Comparison between British Education System and Chinese Education System-中英教育体制对比研究.doc

Comparison between British Education System and Chinese Education System Collage of Foreign Languages Abstract：As is known to us all, education is now playing an more and more important role in modern society. To China, a developing country, education is playing more important role in the progress of China. But China has a long way to go. So this paper will give a show of the education system of China and Britain. And we’ll get more from this paper. First, different nations have different kinds of education systems. No matter in British or in China, education system has many differences. Secondly, between developed countries and developing countries, the former one is much better. Such as the education system in China and Britain, the Britain has a much more advantage and much better system. Third, there are a lot of differences between the two countries’ education, and they also have much in common. From the differences and the similarities, we can get more to improve our own nation’s education system. In a word, we get the longs and throw the shorts by the compared of these two nations. Key words：China, Britain, Education, Difference, Similarity, 1. Introduction Generally speaking, both China and Britain have primary school, middle school, university and the adult school. But as we can see, they still have many differences. Education is the root of a nation, a key for a nation to keep with the world. Therefore, education is always paid great attention by all the countries in the world. And different countries have different kinds of system of education such as British education and Chinese education. Exactly speaking, British education system has two systems of primary and secondary of education in Britain----the state school and “public school”. The former is in the majority; the latter are few in number but of great influence. There is a complete system of state primary and secondary education----primary up to the age of eleven, and secondary from eleven to