英国高等教育 Higher education in Britain

Higher education in Britain

【Abstract】

Higher education has a long history in Britain. The British education system is the one of the world's most ancient education systems, which is famous for its higher education.

【Key Words】

Britain, higher education

British emphasis on education , not only gathered the world's most famous and oldest schools and universities, and there is no shortage of new style and awareness of the most innovative institutions. Britain still put Education as a pillar industry in the UK Education policy is to encourage more and more students to the country's educated at the University. UK higher education to implement the two-track system, on the one hand, the autonomy of universities, on the other hand, public colleges and universities. University refers to the classical universities, modern university, University, Open University, and eight universities in Scotland; public colleges and universities in the university refers to the multi-disciplinary Institute of Technology, School of Continuing Education and the Institute of Education. Which multidisciplinary Institute of Technology. Colleges and universities to provide A-level vocational courses, usually grant approved by the local universities, professional qualifications and degrees, including degree certificates, Higher National Certificate (HND) or Certificate of Higher Education (DipHE). The limits of further education colleges and higher education colleges are often very vague and difficult to distinguish from the name of the school. Students need to determine is the end of the course to obtain the required diploma. The only University in the United Kingdom to grant degrees, other educational institutions only qualified recognized by the University in order to grant the degree.

The basic situation

There are 165 higher education institutions existing in British. The recruitment of students scale increased in recent years, and it up to 2.396 million in 2008/09 . The student ratio of the local, the countries of the European Union and other countries is about 17:1:2 . The 2008/09 school year, staff number is up to 383000, including 179000 academic staff people, the student and teacher ratio is 13.4:1. The academic staff is occupied 25.6%, while the people engaged in the research is 22.3%, both engaged in teaching and research is 51.5%, part-time teacher accounted for 34.4%.

Cultivating mode and system

There are three years in British university system. The scores of the first year are not included in the three years undergraduate course as British students are expected to learn public courses in the first year. Each department sent excellent teachers to teach the classical courses in professional field. Schools provide a month time for students to choose and determine their professionals. The school year is divided into three semesters, each one include 10 weeks. They focus on improving the comprehensive ability and they encourage students to do some part-time jobs. What’s more, special teachers will help students find jobs. Stude nts would like to spend more time on sports, art, organizations, Practical Work and extracurricular part-time, etc. At the end of every school year, part of the students are asked to repeat a grade or even leave school for the reason that