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In modern Europe, Britain, Malta and Ireland stand out as the only countries where school uniform is widely adopted by state schools and generally supported by national and local governments, although there is no legislation governing school uniform in the U.K. [3] There are some independent schools and state schools that do not have school ...
Pupils at St Swithun's School in school uniform. School uniforms in England are worn in over 90% of primary and secondary schools in England. [1] Parents are required to purchase the uniform which in 2015 averaged roughly £212.88 per child. [2] The Department for Education encourage all schools in England to have a uniform.
Academic dress of King's College London, designed by Vivienne Westwood. The academic dress of the United Kingdom and Ireland has a long history and has influenced the academic dress of America and beyond. The academic square cap was invented in the UK as well as the hood which developed from the lay dress of the medieval period.
A significant minority of state-funded schools are faith schools, which are attached to religious groups, most often the Church of England or the Roman Catholic Church. All state-funded schools are regularly inspected by the Office for Standards in Education, often known simply as Ofsted. Ofsted publishes reports on the quality of education ...
Eton College (/ ˈ iː t ən / ⓘ EE-tən) [3] is a 13–18 public fee-charging and boarding secondary school for boys in Eton, Berkshire, England.It is noted for having educated prime ministers, world leaders, Nobel laureates, Academy Award and BAFTA award-winning actors, and generations of the aristocracy, having been referred to as "the nurse of England's statesmen". [4]
For details of school uniforms in the United Kingdom see: School uniforms in England; School uniforms in Northern Ireland; School uniforms in Scotland;
Uniform Map was a experimental website which based on Google Maps, the founder wanted to sort out information of school uniforms of senior high schools in Taiwan, combined the collection of these information with Google Maps, then the website was established. Afterwards, it started collecting information of school uniforms around the world.
In 1816 Rudolph Ackermann published a book which used the term "History of the Public Schools" of what he described as the "principal schools of England", [59] entitled The History of the Colleges of Winchester, Eton, and Westminster; with the Charter-House, the Schools of St. Paul's, Merchant Taylors, Harrow, and Rugby, and the Free-School of ...