On February 17, the Admissions Office of British Colleges and Universities (UCSA) released the latest data showing that the number of Chinese students applying to study in the UK reached a new high. This means that Britain has also become the most fierce "battlefield" outside of studying in the United States! Many Chinese parents have begun to plan ahead and plan early.
As of 16 January 2022, the number of Chinese mainland students applying for admission to UK universities in 2022 increased by 12% compared to last year, reaching a total of 28,930, four times the 6,900 in 2013.
In January this year, the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) also released its annual "UK Higher Education Big Data", which reviewed the data of international students at UK universities in the 2020-2021 academic year. According to the data, the total number of Chinese students studying abroad in this academic year once again exceeded 140,000 (143,820). In the 2016-2017 academic year, the number of Chinese students studying abroad was only 95,595. In other words, the number of Chinese students studying at UK universities has increased by 50% in the last 5 years!
As a result of the large increase in the number of applicants to study in the UK, the competition among Chinese students has become increasingly fierce and the involution has intensified.
Many Chinese families send their children to private schools or international schools in the UK in advance, paving the way for future UK university applications.
In fact, there is another way for families who plan to send their children to study in the UK or have a double application plan in the future, and they can also help their children lay a solid academic foundation without going to the UK, that is, they can synchronize themselves at home.
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The public and private school education system in the UK is different from China. Different stages of entry have their own points in time.
Basically, children will enter the "Pre-prep School" at the age of 4, which can be understood as the "pre-school" of the British private primary school, preparing the child for Prep School, starting from Year 3 is the real primary school stage, corresponding to the child's 7 years old, and the junior high school stage starts from Year 9, that is, the child is 13 years old, and lasts until Year 11. The child completes the exams at the junior high school level, and the high school begins at the age of 16, corresponding to the Year 12 of the British school system.
If parents plan to send their children to study in primary and secondary schools, there are 4 major exam entry points in the UK that need to be paid special attention to: 7 years old, 11 years old, 13 years old and 16 years old.
The age of 7 is the time point for entering the top level of primary school in the UK, and the age of 11, 13 and 16 are the examination nodes for the entrance to junior high school and high school in the UK, respectively.
For GCSEs in higher secondary schools and A-level exams for applying to universities, you need to choose an examination board in the UK. Because there are a number of examination boards in the UK (commonly known as examination boards) that can provide GCSE and A-level exams, it is easy for parents and children to be confused......
While all examination boards follow the strict guidelines of the Ofqual (Office of Qualifications and Examinations Administration) to standardize standards and ensure fair examinations, the layout, content and format of the same examination are different from examination authority to examination authority.
There are seven examination boards in England, Wales and Northern Ireland:
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Schools can be freely chosen according to the subjects of the examination. However, there are four exam boards with the largest number of references in the UK, and they are: AQA Edexcel OCR CIE. Among them, Edexcel, AQA (Oxford), and CIE (Cambridge) are the institutions that domestic students can apply for A-level examinations!
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Comparison of the Chinese education system with the British education system
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