True or False?
Primary school education begins in the UK at age 5.
True
The teaching of which subject does not have to be provided by state-funded secondary schools in the UK ?
A. Religious education
B. Relationship education
C. Chemistry
C. Chemistry.
Students have science lessons, though.
Most of the schools in Canada use which two languages to teach the students?
French and English
........ % of adults in the US are illiterate in 2024.
(+/- 5)
21
54% of adults have a literacy below a 6th-grade level (20% are below 5th-grade level). Low levels of literacy costs the US up to 2.2 trillion per year.
Private schools in the UK are also known as ‘independent schools’ or in England and Wales 'public schools'.
true
In the UK it is compulsory to stay in full-time education
A. until the age of 16
B. until the age of 18
C. until the age of 14
A.
But in England
You must do one of the following until you’re 18:
-stay in full-time education, for example at a college
- start an apprenticeship
- spend 20 hours or more a week working or volunteering, while in part-time education or training
School of the Air is a special school for children who live in remote places and can't attend school mainly in which English - speaking country?
Australia
some or all classes were historically conducted by radio, although this is now replaced by telephone and internet technology
......... % of teachers plan to quit in the next 2 years in the USA?
(+/- 5)
35% of teachers plan to quit in the next 2 years, down from 44% in 2024
Corporal punishment was prohibited in all state-supported and private schools in 1946 after World War II.
False. Corporal punishment was prohibited in all state-supported education in 1986. The prohibition was extended to cover private schools in England and Wales in 1998, in Scotland in 2000, and in Northern Ireland in 2003.
The oldest university in the USA is
A. Yale University
B. Harvard University
C. University of Pennsylvania
B. 1636
A. 1701
C. 1740
Name an Ivy League College (University).
Dartmouth College - Hanover, New Hampshire· Harvard University - Boston, Massachusetts· Princeton University - Princeton, New Jersey· University of Pennsylvania - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania· Yale University - New Haven, Connecticut
From 1996 to 2021, a teacher’s average weekly salary increased $ .......... .
(+/- 30)
From 1996 to 2021, a teacher’s average weekly salary increased just $29. Compared to other college graduates, their average weekly salary during this same time period increased $445.
Boarding schools in the UK are all private schools and are either all-boy schools or all -girl schools.
False.
There are state boarding schools, too. State boarding schools provide free education but charge fees for boarding. Most UK boarding schools teach a mix of international pupils and local UK pupils. ‘Boarders’ are pupils who live at the school. ‘Day pupils’ live with their families and return home at the end of the school day. Some of them are co-educational.
Which of these is NOT called a college in the UK?
A. a school that prepares for A (advanced level) exams
B. a students' hostel or dormitory
C. a part of a university
B.
Probably the most well known secret society at any university is the Skull and Bones club at which university?
Yale
In the UK there are about 7.93 million children in state school education. This number will fall by about ...................... by 2032.
(+/- 10%)
In the UK the state school population currently stands at 7.93 million children, and this will fall by around 800,000 by 2032.
There is no National Curriculum in the UK.
False.
The national curriculum is a set of subjects and standards used by primary and secondary schools so children learn the same things. It covers what subjects are taught and the standards children should reach in each subject. Other types of school like academies and private schools do not have to follow the national curriculum.
Eton College is
A. a public boarding school for boys aged between 13 and 18
B. one of the independent Colleges of Cambridge University
C. an elite school for the members of the Royal Family
A.
Name a book that has been banned in the USA repeatedly.
1) 1984, George Orwell, 2) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain, 3) The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger, 4) The Color Purple, Alice Walker, 5) The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald, 6) I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou, 7) Lord of the Flies, William Golding, 8) Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck, 9) One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Ken Kesey, and 10) To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee.[7]
About ......... % of adults have earned a higher education (as of 2022) in the USA / the UK / Australia / Canada.
(+/- 5)
about 50 %
OECD average about 40%
Hungary 29 %
https://www.statista.com/statistics/232951/university-degree-attainment-by-country/