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 bothcountries. Schools in Lithuania and in Great Britain aren’t the same. Inboth countries children start kindergarten when they have about four yearsold. There aren`t a lot of differences in kindergartens of both countries,whereas in Britain kindergartens are more modern. Children start school atthe age of 7 or if they are bright pupil they start it at age of 6. And sois in both countries. Practically all schools in Lithuania arecomprehesive. It is the same in Britain, although there some independentschools. There are some boarding schools in Britain, where children liveand sleep during the term. It isn`t very current thing in Lithuania. The national Britain curriculum is the group of subjects that mustbe taught in England and Wales. There is more different curriculum inLithuania. From eleventh form all subjects are biased in this casesometimes it makes some troubles, you have to choose only that subjects youneeded the most. Exams are that thing which raises a fear for a lot of students. Inspite of this you cannot escape from them. There are only two exams inLithuania : maturity exam in 10th form and exam for school-leavers in 12thform. Whereas there are a lot of exams in Great Britain. Childrens takeexams 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 theirGCSEs may remain at school for another two years and take their “A”(Advanced) level exams. Any students who wants to go to university needs topass 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 systemis good enough. In most of countries, students who finished school, go touniversity. Lithuania`s universities require high level of students. If youlearning in good marks you haven`t to pay any fee, whereas if you arestudent who lag behind you have to pay any fee. In these days Lithuaniangovernment wants to pass one fee to everybody. Also students receive grantsfrom 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. Verygood escape for student of both countries are loans, which they have to payback then they start work. Lithuania haven`t such universities like GreatBritain for example Oxford. So there are a lot of things in Lithuanianeducation which have to be perfection. I think without education you`renothing.