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The British School Systems Explained Like a lot of things in Britain, the school system is difficult to explain because it’s been around for so long, and has consequently been through a variety of different forms, some aspects of which have disappeared whilst many still remain. This means you wind up with problems like the fact that so-called ‘public’ schools are actually private schools; we generally call state-funded schools ‘comprehensives’, but this doesn’t mean that private schools don’t offer a ‘comprehensive’ education. It seems like a bit of clarification is in order. 英国教育体系，跟英国其他很多事情一样，很难解释清楚;因为英国教育体系本身由来已久，从而也发展出很多不同的形式，其中一些随着时间推移已经消失了，但很多形式仍保留至今。所以不难理解大家会有很多疑问，比如所谓的“公学”其实是私立精英学校;而我们一般把公立学校称作“综合学校”，不过这并不意味着私立学校就不提供“综合”的教育。鉴于以上提到的这些问题，我觉得对英国教育体系作些解释还是很有必要的，希望能对大家有所帮助。 THE STANDARD PATH 标准模式 The British Government offers funded education from the age of 3. This takes the form of nurseries and playgroups up to the age of 5, followed by attendance at Primary School until the age of 11, and finally a further stage at Secondary School up to age 16. Students will usually achieve their General Certificates of Education (GCSEs) at this point. The ‘usual’ path then leads to the Sixth Form for two years to gain Advanced Levels (A-Levels)， and then on to university to do a bachelor’s degree. Most bachelor degree courses in England are three years long (in Scotland they are usually four). After obtaining an undergraduate degree, students can go on to do a master’s degree, which usually takes one or two years, and then a doctorate, which typically takes another three years to complete. | 
