emily blue
Designer, Artist, and Architect in londres
In England and the rest of the UK, education is compulsory until the age of 16, and although the majority of British children attend state or public schools, the proportion of children attending private schools has recently increased by almost 10%, probably supported by the incredible prestige of a large number of elite English schools.
This is not to say that performance in Britain's state schools is significantly lower, as there are many students from these schools who attend some of the world's top universities, such as Cambridge, Oxford, or London, after their secondary education, but there is some differentiation between state schools that allow selection of students on the basis of their academic results, such as some of the ones we offer, and those that do not.