5-11= Primary School
11-16=Secondary School
16-18= Sixth form college
18- whenever= University
Most counties have sixth form added onto secondary school but in the county i live in there are no state secondary schools with sixth forms, so everyone goes to sixth form colleges. And no-one calls university college here.
Woah!
So how old are you when you start school? We start grade school (1 -8) around age 6-7 and finish college around 21 or 22. After 16 years of education most people here are done unless they go on to graduate level education.
Do most people over there finish after "secondary school"? What is caimbridge called? A university?
---Andrew
Errm you are actually 4 when you start school, however i entered at 5- because that was before the law had been changed.
It is hard to tell whether most people finish school after secondary school. Secondary school certainly is the end of compulsory education- however, nearly everyone i know and am aware of goes at least onto sixth form college to complete A-levels (the exams needed to go to uni) and then onto university.
You certainly won't get very far with GCSEs (the exams i just completed, when you leave secondary school- the ones needed to advance to sixth form)- unless you want to be a shop assistant, work in a supermarket etc- or to have a vocational job you need an apprentiship or something of the sort. But the truth is you won't get very far without completing sixth form college, even if you don't want to go to university.
However, i do live in a very middle/upper class area of England and indeed the county i live in. In the north i'm sure a lot of people would finish at 16- maybe that is a bit stereotypical though.
Cambridge is a university, as is Oxford- and what you call 'college'.
