LITHUANIAN AND BRITISH EDUCATION

The topic of my speech is education in Lithuania and Great Britain.

Firstly I would like to talk about differences and similarities in both

countries. Schools in Lithuania and in Great Britain aren’t the same. In

both countries children start kindergarten when they have about four years

old. There aren`t a lot of differences in kindergartens of both countries,

whereas in Britain kindergartens are more modern. Children start school at

the age of 7 or if they are bright pupil they sstart it at age of 6. And so

is in both countries. Practically all schools in Lithuania are

comprehesive. It is the same in Britain, although there some independent

schools. There are some boarding schools in Britain, where children live

and sleep during the term. It isn`t very current thing in Lithuania.

The national Britain curriculum is the group of subjects that must

be taught in England and Wales. There is more different curriculum in

Lithuania. From eleventh form all subjects are biased in this case

sometimes iit makes some troubles, you have to choose only that subjects you

needed the most.

Exams are that thing which raises a fear for a lot of students. In

spite of this you cannot escape from them. There are only two exams in

Lithuania : maturity exam in 10th form and exam for school-leavers in 12th

form. Whereas there are a lot of exams in Great Britain. Childrens take

exams at the age of 7, 10, 14 and 16. At the age of 16 pupils take GCSEs

(the General Sertificate of Secondary Education). Pupils who passed their

GCSEs may remain at school for another two years and take their “A”

(Advanced) level exams. Any students who wants to go to university needs to

pass at least two or three “A” levels. It looks like in lithuania, but

there is very hard to get good mark. But I think Lithuanian school system

is good enough.

In most of countries, students who finished school, go to

university. Lithuania`s universities require high level of students. IIf you

learning in good marks you haven`t to pay any fee, whereas if you are

student who lag behind you have to pay any fee. In these days Lithuanian

government wants to pass one fee to everybody. Also students receive grants

from the government to pay for cource fee and food, accomodation and etc.

It`s the same in Great Britain, but there are no fees in universities. Very

good escape for student of both countries are loans, which they have to pay

back then they start wwork. Lithuania haven`t such universities like Great

Britain for example Oxford. So there are a lot of things in Lithuanian

education which have to be perfection. I think without education you`re

nothing.