School education

LIVE AND LEARN

Audio 3.3

1.       There are many reasons for students to stay away from school. To my mind boredom is the most important, because, when the students are not motivated, are not involved in the educational process they don’t want to go to school. The second reason is the influence of friends. To my mind it’s very important for parents to know who are the friends of their child, because being a teenager; the child is often under the influence of their friends. If the company is not so good, it will be the main case of child’s truancy at school. I think that sometimes there is interconnection between problems at school and problems at home. They depend from each other. Of course truancy caused many problems: bad marks, misbehaviour, problems at school, family problems.

2.        1-c

2-c

3-a

4-b

5-a

6-c

7-b

3.        I’ve ranked them in such a way.

1)      more interesting lessons

2)      teaching students to respect school

3)      more responsible parenting

4)      strict punishment

5)      police involvement

The students will love school if the lessons are more interesting, so they will be absorbed with the educational process and won’t think about leaving school without any reason. At school the students should understand how to respect school, they should realize all the importance of being educated. I think if the parents are responsible, the children will have fewer problems with the truancy. Strict punishment and police involvement are the least things to do. (Only if the child is out of any control)

Audio 3.4

1. Public school: is quite expensive. In that school the quality of education is really high. Only rich people can the possibility to study there. The best employers begin to look for people at public school, so the chance to find very perspective job is very high.

State school is free and it’s rather interesting to study there because of the mix of students. Speaking about life chances it’s not easy to get a good job after the state school, because the best employers look for students at state school, only after the students from public schools.

Most of all, I agree with the statement that students from public schools are more called-for. Actually, the situation is the same in our country.

2. Educational systems

The educational system in Russia consists of: pre-schools(kindergarten) , general schools, specialised secondary and higher education. Compulsory education is for children from 6(7) to 17 years of age. There are various types of schools: general secondary schools, schools specialising in a certain subject, high schools, gymnasiums and so on. After 9th form pupils have to sit for examinations. Also they have a choice between entering the 10th grade of a general secondary school or going to professional school. Pupils who finish the general secondary school, receive a secondary education certificate, giving them the right to enter any higher educational establishment. One has to study in the institute for 5 years. Higher educational institutions train students in one or several specialisations.

The educational system in the USA consists of elementary school (age 6), Junior high school (age 11), Senior high school (age 14) College/University (4 year first degree course)/Junior college (2 year course).

The educational system in the UK consists of primary school (age 5), secondary/comprehensive school (from 11 to 16), GCSE (age 16), A level (age 18), Course of higher education at college or University (3 years from the age of 18).

School uniform

Essay

Nowadays there is a problem of wearing or not the school uniform.

In Russia there is a tendency to introduce the school uniform at all the state schools. I believe that children should wear the school uniform, because in such a way there is no social inequality at school. Moreover school uniform disciplines children. Children have little reasons to divert their attention from the educational process. If the school has the uniform, it has the face in such a way and looks like more prestigious.

Some people believe that it’s not necessary to wear the school uniform, because the individuality is rules out. Also, nowadays it’s not cheap to buy the uniform.

In conclusion, I’d like to say that it’s up for every school to decide whether it’s necessary or not to wear the school uniform.

-          state-wide exams/continual assessment

At my schooling years I had the continual assessment. I think, that it’s better to finish every school year with such assessment, because in such a way the pupils got used to them. In other way it is not easy to pass the state-wide exams, because pupils just don’t know how to cope with them. It’s not easy for them in psychical way.