I was correct on everything, you mean.
Seeing as we seem to be having a pedant-a-thon, the college for grades 11 and 12 thing is not UK-wide - it doesn’t apply in Scotland, for example. ![]()
Or in England, where a college is primarily a component of a university just like it is here. I think you’re referring to a sixth-form college, which is usually called a “sixth-form college”.
Yeah, not amazingly clear on the English education system myself. Are sixth-form colleges always a separate institution from the grade 7-10 (or whatever) ones?
Not in common usage- anyone saying they were at college when they were at University would confuse the hell out of people.
Though most colleges are attached to Universities (as colleges cannot award degrees themselves, that must be done by a University), and many Universities are made up of colleges, ‘College’ is generally seen to mean you are studying at a level equivalent to 6th form*, or a specialist institute for something like Art or Agriculture, though that would pretty much always come with the specialisation as a qualifier (‘I’m at Art College’).
A student at, say, St. Anne’s College Oxford, would say they were a University student, studying at Oxford (though they might also specify which college), they certainly wouldn’t say they were a College student.
Yes I know that’s confusing and makes very little sense- welcome to the English education system!
*Which we refer to as years 12 and 13 or Lower and Upper 6th form; standard school education goes up to the end of year 11, also known as 5th year, due to a non-universal change of terminology, either way, it’s known as a 6th form College, which not all schools have as an option.
Yeah, but he’s not saying “at college”. He’s just saying “college”.
No. Lots of secondary schools run through the sixth form. All the public secondary schools do, as far as I know.
No. At my school, you just continued from the 5th year into the 6th form.
Certainly not all of them. My son’s school, for example, only opened a Sixth Form this year.
An independent school? Or did you think I meant public in the American sense?
And for some parts is father west than West Virginia.
Are they in the same country? The UK is so odd, with Scotland, Wales and England all being separate countries.
I thought you meant public in the American sense. Apologies if that was an incorrect assumption.
The UK (England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland) is one nation state. The Republic of Ireland is another, separate, nation state.
A person wishing to travel to Northern Ireland needs to obtain their visa from the British governmnent. Hence, apparently, the confusion which prompted the OP.
That really doesn’t answer my question at all.
Just as Hawaii and Alaska are parts of the same country.
Just tell her she has to travel through Britain and get an English Visa, because Northern Ireland is where they speak English.
Tell her in the rest of Ireland they speak Irish.
No, the westernmost part of Virginia is west of the westernmost part of West Virginia.
Then I apologise, as I apparently did not understand your question. Did you mean “Are the RoI and NI the same country?” Or something else?
Yes. The UK is a country made up of four countries.
Yo, dawg, we heard you liked countries, so we put some countries in your country so you could visit different countries when you’re in your country.