A Comparative Study on compulsory education system between UnitedKingdom and United StatesNowadays, people pay more and more attention to children’s education and some parents will sent their children study abroad. Therefore some people become curious about the different system between United Kingdom and United States. And this is one of the purposes of ‘A Comparative Study on compulsory education system between United Kingdom and United States’. Then the second purpose of this topic is to find out the disadvantages and advantages between U.K. /U.S. and china, to figure out why people always think that education abroad is better. The third purpose is to discover the goodness in U.S. and U.K. education system, and improve our own education system. Only the combination of the essence of U.S. / U.K. and China education system, can realize the individual development of the students to the greatest extent.Both U.K. and USA have a long history and both they pay a lot of attentions to their education. So there are many similarities between U.K. and USA education system. Britain and the United States higher education evaluation mechanism has the neutrality, independence, legislative and normative characteristics, development is become well, for the development and improvement of higher education in China has a very good reference assessment agencies.In the same while, there are also many differences in compulsory education system between United Kingdom and United States. In particular, the U.S. universities seem to have some affinities with the British method of education. However, there are particulars that make the two very different and with lots of advantages and disadvantages when compared to the other.The main difference between the two educational systems is that in U.S. universities there is a freedom of choice of workload (i.e. credits to be taken per semester) compared to the heavy and long classes that a student must take over a whole academic year in U.K. institutions. For example, being an American academic year divided into two semesters (plus two short summer sessions) that last each four months, it is possible to choose more or less classes depending on the student necessities.Universities and Colleges are reputedly the hallowed halls of intellectual development, the schools of maturation from where the leaders of our world emerge to set the world ablaze with the fruits of intellectualism. the flexibility of the US university undergraduate system has significant advantages over the UK system for many students – in fact, many of the top students acknowledge that high school is something to be survived to get them into a decent college, and then their education can really begin (this is part of the disconnect between moving between the US and UK when transitioning to University). That said, for students who have some idea of what interests them, there are some fantastic degrees/universities in the U.K..Each system has its strengths and weaknesses. Critics of British education would point towards the enforced learning of unnecessary information, whereas defenders of the British universities may counter by accusations of dumbing down in college classes. My personal perception, based from studying in two small universities/colleges in the U.K. and the U.S., that aside from a divergence between curriculum's, there is a marked difference of ethos between U.K. and U.S. higher education institutions. On American campuses, work is constantly requested from students on a daily basis. In contrast the British university calendar invites extra-intensive work in patches, separated by periods of lulls, thus creating large tracts of downtime betweenassignments.It this downtime that characterises the British university lifestyle where social life is the veritable engine of UK university life, pushing academia into the passenger seat. In contrast academia takes the fore in America colleges, largely due to structured system in American colleges brought by an emphasis upon teaching. Work is definitely more intensive in American colleges, which is to be expected given that American students pay significantly more than their British counterparts, and hence American students tend to be more motivated than their apathetic British counterparts.After I search a lot of materials, I have more knowledge about compulsory education system between United Kingdom and United States. I know every country has their own situation and system, because people and the society need different things. And they do have disadvantages and advantages, and what we can do is to learn their advantages and improve ourselves. What’s more, we should treat different culture in a reasonable mind.References:①Madeleine King, John Widdowson and Richard Brown. 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