Posted by JLabaree on November 16, 2007 at 11:33:00 from 74.75.130.147 user JLabaree.
In Reply to: A cultural chasm opens - wasTarBoard:educational, was Fireworks posted by Andrew Craig-Bennett on November 16, 2007 at 10:14:27:
If I am interpreting all of this correctly, university-bound students ("grammar school types") in the UK system end up with one more year of schooling than they do here in the States. We go through 12th grade, then on to college, if so inclined or fortunate.
I am right in remembering that a typical run at, say, Cambridge is three years for what we would call an 'undergraduate' degree? In the States, the typical run is four years. Thus, when all is said and done, two students starting out at the same time on either side of the pond might graduate from college/university together.