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EDUCATION IN BRITAIN

01. Parents in Britain are being required by law to see that their children receive full-time

02. education between the ages of 5 and 16. At the present, there are about nine million

03. school-children at about 40,000 schools. The number is increasing, mainly because of some

04. increase in the birth rate, and such primary school numbers are very high.

05. Although the birth-rate has now stabilised, each year more of children stay

06. on at school from beyond the minimum leaving age. There is, therefore, a

07. continuing need for more teachers and more school buildings. In England, Wales and

08. Northern Ireland, it is usual for boys and girls to be taught all together in primary schools: that

09. is, up to the age of 11, but about half the secondary schools are for boys and girls only.

10. Although mixed schools are more common in Wales and Scotland, where all but a few city

11. schools take both boys and girls. As to a result of the reorganisation of schools, and the

12. introduction of comprehensive education, much more children are attending co-educational

13. establishments. While in the independent sector, more than half the schools are

14. co-educational; but of those that providing secondary education, the majority are either for

15. boys or girls. These independent schools do receive no grants from public funds,

16. and charge fees. They are of two types: the preparatory schools and the public schools.

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