School type

Private schools, or independent school, are schools not administered by local, state, or national government, which retain the right to select their student body and are funded in whole or in part by charging their students tuition rather than with public (state) funds. In the United Kingdom and some other Commonwealth countries the use of the term is generally restricted to primary and secondary educational levels: it is almost never used of universities or other tertiary institutions. Private...

A voluntary aided school is a school in England where the governing body, as opposed to the Local Education Authority, employs the staff, and decides the admission arrangements, but the school is funded by the state and can't charge fees. The governing body is usually controlled by a foundation or trust which often own the school's land and buildings and can appoint a majority of the governors. The governing body contributes towards the capital costs of maintaining the school buildings but,...

Upper Schools tend to be schools within secondary education. Outside England, the term normally refers to a section of a larger school. There is some variation in the use of the term in England. Upper Schools are a type of secondary school found in a minority of English local education authorities. Whilst most areas in England use a two-tier educational system - Primary (ages 5-11) and Secondary (ages 11-16) - counties such as Suffolk, Bedfordshire and Northumberland use a three-tier system of...

A boarding school is usually a fee-charging school where some or all pupils not only study, but also live during term time, with their fellow students and possibly teachers. The word 'boarding' in this sense means to provide food and lodging. Many public schools in the Commonwealth of Nations (called private schools or independent schools in the US) are boarding schools. The amount of time one spends in boarding school varies considerably from one year to twelve or more years. Boarding school...

Grant-maintained schools were state school in England and Wales in the United Kingdom that, under provision of the Education Reform Act 1988, were funded directly by central government in the form of a grant. GM schools opted out of local government control and and were managed by their own boards of school governor. Grant-maintained schools were developed to allow more parental choice within the state-maintained sector. The legislative conditions that created grant-maintained schools lasted...

A public high school is a secondary school that is financed by tax revenues and other government-collected revenues, and administered exclusively by, and at the discretion of, state and local officials. The modifier "high", as applied to the noun "school", seems to have been arisen in the popular vocabulary to distinguish secondary schools from primary, or elementary, schools. In the United States of America, grade levels beginning in 9th grade and ending in 12th grade are commonly referred to...

A single-sex school is a school that accepts boy or girl exclusively. This has been the traditional situation for independent school, especially public school and grammar school in the United Kingdom, but many of these have now become coeducational. The number of single-sex state schools has fallen from nearly 2,500 to just over 400 in 40 years. According to Alan Smithers, Professor of Education at Buckingham University, there was no evidence that single-sex schools were consistently superior....

An independent school in the United Kingdom is a school relying upon private sources for all of its funding, predominantly in the form of school fees. In England and Wales the term public school - it is not, however, normal to refer to schools that are considered to be public schools as "private schools", although they may be called "independent schools" (and frequently now use that term to define themselves). Some independent schools, particularly the more traditional institutions, also have...

A sixth form college is an educational institution in England, Wales, Northern Ireland, Hong Kong or Malta where students aged 16 to 19 typically study for advanced school-level qualifications, such as A-levels. In England and Wales, education is only compulsory until the end of their fifth year, the school year in which the pupil turns 16 (although this is changing in September 2013). In the English and Welsh state educational systems, those wishing to continue may either stay on at a...

Parochial school is one term used (particularly in the United States) to describe a school that engages in religious education in addition to conventional education. In another, more narrow sense, parochial schools are Christian grammar school or high school run by parish; but this distinction is not universally made. In British education, parish schools from the established church of the relevant constituent country formed the basis of the state-funded education system, and many schools...

Selective schools in New South Wales, Australia are most commonly government high schools operated by the New South Wales Department of Education and Training, that have accepted their students based upon their academic merit. Each year, approximately 13,000 Year 6 students from across the state of New South Wales optionally undertake the Selective High Schools Test to seek one of the 3700 places offered for first year entry into selective high schools. For Years 8 to 12 entry into selective...

In a voluntary controlled school in England (almost always church school), the land and buildings are often owned by a charitable foundation. However, the Local Education Authority employ the school's staff and has primary responsibility for admission arrangements. It is funded by the state and does not charge fees. The pupils have to follow the National Curriculum. Voluntary controlled

A university is an institution of higher education and research, which grants academic degree at all levels (associate, bachelor, master, and doctorate) in a variety of subjects. A university provides both undergraduate education and postgraduate education. The word university is derived from the Latin universitas magistrorum et scholarium, roughly meaning "community of teachers and scholars". The original Latin word "universitas", first used in time of renewed interest in Classical Greek and...