China gives priority to the exam-oriented education，British pay more attention to professional interest.
The Chinese education is "nine year compulsory education".Most of schools are public schools.And the tuitions come from the government.And the British education is also compulsory education.But the school system is two-track system which included the public school and the private school.And the tutions are free in the public school while those come from the students' parents in the private school.
The Chinese educational system is very simple.Most of students have to pass the college entrance examination.And then they can go to college to study a major.But in Britain, the students have many choices to study.There are many technology schools.Every body can enter without certisfication and limeted age.
The Chinese schools only have some subjects,such as Chinese,maths,English,history,physics and so on.The Chinese students must study these subjects every day.And they must work hard that they hardly have spare time.But in Britain, Curriculum setting,according to the kind of the school.The students have chances to choose an elective cource to expand their knowledge and visions.And they have much more spare time to play than Chinese students.
British education advocate freedom and test, China's education paying more attention to the theory of knowledge, have a solid foundation of knowledge
School age of two countries are similar,education are compulsory to a extent.
