英美概况Education_in_Great_Britain教材课程.ppt

Education in Great Britain;Purpose of Education;Controversy;Social Class;Social Class;History of Education;History of Education;A British school at the end of the 19th Century;Questions…;;;Then Came World War II;;;;;;The Great Education Debate;A National Curriculum;Competition reintroduced;;Current Education in the U.K.;Education Today;Universities in the U.K.;British universities are funded by the government, and unlike the USA, there are not private universities. There has been a great increase in the number of people attending university in the last 25 years. 1980: 1 in 8, 1990: 1 in 5 and 2000: 1 in 3. University campuses now have students with a wide range of ages and nationalities, studying various subjects. For instance, in 2003/2004 there were 1,400,000 full-time students, 230,000 of whom came from overseas. The British government tries to encourage the best overseas students to study in Britain by offering scholarships. (32,000 received this sort of assistance in 2003/2004). ;;The Open University;2007 University Ratings