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(n. & v.) teacher's assessment of a student's work (UK also mark) level or year of a student in elementary, middle, or high school ("in 10th grade") (UK equiv.: year); hence grader, a student in a specified grade ("a 10th grader") (grade school, the grades) elementary school see also Grade Point Average: grade (other)
Inauguration of the Women's High School in Belgrade, first high school open to women in Serbia (and the entire Balkans). [79] United States Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi graduates from the New York College of Pharmacy in 1863, making her the first woman to graduate from a United States school of pharmacy. [114] [115] 1864: Belgium
The average British student scored 503.7, compared with the OECD average of 493. [8] In 2014, the country spent 6.6% of its GDP on all levels of education – 1.4 percentage points above the OECD average of 5.2%. [1] In 2017, 45.7% of British people aged 25 to 64 had attended some form of post-secondary education.
Over ninety per cent of English women (and adults, in general) entered marriage in this era at an average age of about 25–26 years for the bride and 27–28 years for the groom. [22] Among the nobility and gentry, the average was around 19-21 for brides and 24-26 for grooms. [ 23 ]
dance/party held for pupils to celebrate the end of a school year/graduation, a shortening of 'promenade', a formal parade * protest (v.t.) to forcefully express an opinion, to advocate: "The prisoner protested his innocence." to campaign or demonstrate against: "The prisoner's friends protested the judge's decision." (UK: protest against)
School nativity plays are a popular tradition in UK primary schools. Year one pupils from Kingsmead School perform in their annual Christmas nativity play. Gideon Mendel/In Pictures/Corbis/Getty ...
Grammar school and selective Academies Year 8: 12 to 13 Year 9: 13 to 14 Upper: Senior (Public/Private school) KS4: Year 10: 14 to 15 University technical college: Upper school Year 11: GCSE: 15 to 16 KS5: Year 12: Advanced subsidiary level or school-set end of year tests. 16 to 17 Sixth form college Further education college Maths school: Year 13
As a result, children in their first year of senior school (aged 11–12 years) might be in the first year, third year or seventh year. Where the same form number is used for two year groups, they are differentiated by the terms "upper" and "lower". The most senior forms are traditionally lower and upper sixth or first and second year sixth.