Education and Role of Foreign Languages

Education System in Uzbekistan
In Uzbekistan 11 years of education are compulsory and free, beginning with 4 years at primary school, and followed by 2 phases of secondary education taking 5 and 2 years respectively. Primary school begins at age 6 and there is no specific leaving examination after the 4 years are complete.
The next 5 years are spent at general secondary school from ages 10 to 15. Following that, there is a choice of between 2 to 3 years of upper education at either general or technical vocational schools. The former provides a certificate of completed secondary education and the opportunity to enter university, the latter a diploma of specialized secondary education, through a network of secondary vocational institutions.
Unemployment remains relatively high, and there are many people desperately in need of new or more appropriate skills. There are a number of state and donor programs in place to address the structural training shortfall. Eventually, the goal is to meet European union standards.
Non university-level tertiary education is provided by national enterprise training centers and a number of business schools, as well as lycea that train professionals in new economic and service fields. Higher education is available from several universities and over 50 higher education institutes. The flagship is the Taškent Islamic University opened not many years ago. On its grounds still stands the mausoleum of the grandfather of the Mughal Emperor Basbur dating from the 15th Century.
It’s 10 p.m. You just got off a 14-hour flight and all you want to do is fall face-first into your pillow. If you are solely armed with a smattering of navigational terms in the local language, finding your place to crash could turn into a painfully slow process. Without the right lingo, you are limited to expensive or slower options. So you save yourself some time, money, and grief when you learn a foreign language.
Education System in Great Britain
The Education system in the UK is distributed over four main categories

• primary education (primary schools)

  
  

• secondary education (secondary schools)

  
  

• further education

  
  

• higher education.

  
  

There are two "key stages": The Key stages 1 and 2 refer to the primary school and at 11 years old, a student will go on to secondary school and finish key stages 3 and 4. Students are evaluated at the end of each stage.

In general at the age of 16, students go for General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE). After completion students have options to chose for further education and then higher education.

In the United Kingdom, each of the countries has different education systems under different governments: the UK Government is in charge of England; the Scottish Government is responsible for Scotland, the Welsh Government is in charge of Wales and the Northern Ireland Executive is responsible for Northern Ireland. Students in the UK need to attend home school or other schools till the age of 16.

Types of Schools

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  State Schools: In the UK, children aged five to 16 are allowed to attend state schools at free-of-charge. State schools are maintained and financed either by the government or by a local education authority.
  
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