Education - Great Britain, USA, Czech Republic

British and American educational systems in comparison
with the Czech one

• Education system in Great Britain

The nowadays British system of education is quite new, from the 1990s. It gives parents more choice to choose the schools and it makes further and higher education more economically available to large numbers of people.
All children and young people between the ages 5 to 16 must get full-time education. About 93 per cent of British pupils receive their education at state schools supported by local public funds, the rest attend independent private or church schools. Most private schools have its pupils uniforms and still remain single-sex. The school year in England and Wales begins in early September and ends in the following July (Scotland varies a bit). State schools have usually six weeks off in summer and some holidays during the school year (at Christmas, Easter etc.).