COMPARISON BETWEEN AMERICAN AND BRITISH EDUCATIONAL SYSTEMS
Nowadays, the globalisation of most developed countries is leading to a world which tends to have open frontiers, same currency and a flexible educational system. In particular, the U.S. universities seem to have some affinities with the British method of education. However, there are particulars that make the two very different and with lots of advantages/disadvantages when compared to the other.
The main difference between the two educational systems is that in U.S. universities there is a freedom of choice of workload (i.e. credits to be taken per semester) compared to the heavy and long classes that a student must take over a whole academic year in U.K. institutions. For example, being an American academic year divided into two semesters (plus two short summer sessions) that last each four months, it is possible to choose more or less classes depending on the student necessities. In my case, I was a full time Engineering Scien
On the other hand, U.K. institutions offer an opportunity to economically disadvantaged students with grants or interest-free loans while it is much harder to get help from the U.S. government. American universities are very expensive if compared to U.K. ones. The ratio is roughly ten to one. As time passes by, American fees are growing more and more and education on the other side of the Atlantic ocean seems to the privilege of few. In my opinion, U.K. universities require much more work than American ones and, if taken seriously, it is a unique chance to gain some knowledge hard to conceive some place else.
Another reason of inefficiency might be the fact that many subjects can be assessed entirely on a single final examination. In other words, considering the fact that a student, who studied a whole year, when about to be tested on his/her knowledge by means of an exam fails to do so due to many reasons that can occur in such a short length of time. A number of five-six exams can occur in
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