Education in the UK and Nigeria

One of the main advantage of studying in UK is that its Universities are highly recognized all over the world for their for their academic excellence.
      Basically education system in the UK is divided into four main parts, primary education, secondary education, further education and higher education.
Primary Education: 
Primary education begins in UK when a child is 5 years old. that is when the child has  the ability to talk properly. And he finishes his Primary Education at age of 11.

Secondary Education:
At the age of 11 to 16, the child will now find his way into secondary school to continue his education, and to start preparing to take his GCSE's exams. Further more secondary school education is mandatory in UK.

Further Education:
Once a student finishes  secondary education they have the option to extend into further education to take their A-levels, GNVQ's, BTEC's other such qualifications. After then they will look on forward for planning to go to college or universities to complete further education.

Higher Education:
After completing universities as undergraduate or postgraduate, only few student go further to continue their education, or to Master in some areas, PHD, or  achieve certain level for example professor, Dr. This ranks is given by the University to the students who brings ideas in his field, and is also a sign of respect to him (UK.internationalstudent.com/study_uk 2011)






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                                                                                                                                                           There are many differences and similarities in comparing the learning skills between United Kingdom and    Nigeria. UK, which is developed country has many methods that helps the student to understand and cope with the institution easily than Nigeria. And they have their citeria in such a way each student has to do his own work alone  with not relying on some other students to do his work or assignments. For example:
Lectures Hall;
In there lectures halls, you find out that  the maximum number of the students are not above fifty in most cases. Which make's the lecture or the tutor to know more about his students and there difficulties of understanding. And the students also make there efforts in asking question in classes.






References:
UK.International STUDENT (2011) UK Education system Available at:http://uk.internationalstudent.com/study_uk/education_system/ (Accessed:05/01/2012).

Mail Online (2010) Available at:http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1262213/Writhlington-School-UK-students-personal-laptops-class-home.html (Accessed:05/01/2010).

EU Britain New Government

                                                               
 http://www.parliament.uk/about/how/role/system/ (2012)


Britain is a parliament democracy with a constitutional Monarch. The House of commons and the House
lords, together with the Monarch, make up Parliament. The Parliament passes laws, and approves taxation and debates the major issues of the day. The prime minister heads the government and appoints ministers, who head individual government department (parliament.uk/about/how/role/system 2012).


http://www.parliament.uk/about/images/ (2012)

The council of the European union - informally called the council of ministers - is the main decision-making body, which approves European laws jointly with the European parliament. The Presidency of the council rotates every six months from one member state to the next.

The parliament consulted about major decisions, and shares substantial power with the council of the European Union also known as the council of ministers. In areas of legislation its role varies between:

• co-decision, where a proposal requires the agreement of both the council and the parliament
• consultation, where the parliament can influence draft legislation but the council has the final decision
• co-operation and assent procedures, where the parliament's influence is greater (Directgov 2012).

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The image above shows the flag that unite all European Countries. the stars indicate how many countries are their and how they are related to each other.


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The image here indicates the currency that the European
countries uses in making their daily expenses.

References:
Available at: http://www.parliament.uk/about/how/role/system/ (no date) (Accessed:18/01/2012)

Directgov (2012) The European Union Available at:http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Governmentcitizensandrights/UKgovernment/TheUKandtheworld/DG_073417 (Accessed:18/01/2012)

Time Management

                                                    TIME MANAGEMENT
Time management is the ability of  individual to utilized and make use of his time according to what he/she has to do daily. before each and every starts time management effectively, he/she needs to set a gaols. When you know where you are going, then you can now figure out what exactly needs to be done. The point here is, the most important thing for some one to manage his time is Setting Goals.
                                          
http://defend-ubattle.blogspot.com/2011/07/passage-of-time.html (2009)

Definition:
Time management is a set of principles, practices, skills, tools, and systems working together to help you get more value out of your time with the aim of improving the quality of your life. Further more is an essential skill that helps your work under control, at the same time that it helps you keep stress to a minimum.


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STRENGTHS:
Scheduling:
Much of time management comes down to effective scheduling of your time. When you know what your goals an priorities are, you then need to know how to go about creating a schedule that keep you on track, and protect you from stress.
This means understanding the factors that effect the time you have available for work. You not only have to schedule priority tasks, you have to leave room for interruptions, and contingency time for those unexpected events that otherwise wreak chaos with your schedule. By creating a robust schedule that reflects your priorities and well as supports your personal, you have a winning combination: one that will allow you to control your time and keep your life balance (timethought.com/time-management.html 2012).

As your term begins and your course schedule is set, develop and plan your study in a typical week. jot down one most block that you can study. By doing so, these will help you to achieve the deadlines of your course works or assignments.

WEAKNESSES:
time management can be a compounding weakness because it can amplify other issues. Student should notes all he's weaknesses. Students has to avoid many things for him to be success in meeting deadline or assignments. here are some clue to be avoiding.

Getting started:many people find it hard in starting a task or project

Procrastinating:
Most people procrastinate by doing other things. for example when you are suppose to be working on assignment or project and end up surfing YouTube, Facebook or Wikipedia.

Not Finishing Things:
Not finishing task is another time management weakness. tasks undone create more for you. You have to be discipline not to commence a new task until you are done with the previews one. Because multi tasking often leads to multiple things unfinished.


Interruptions:
When doing particular task you have to keep away all necessary items that will interrupt you. for example by switching off your mobile phones, television and other electric devices. You should also find a convenient places for you to study (mindtools.com/pages/article 2012).




References:
Available at:http://www.timethoughts.com/time-management.htm (Accessed:12/02/2012).

Mind Tools (2012) How good is your time management? Available at:http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newHTE_88.htm (Accessed:12/02/2012).

Joseph K. (2009) The passage of time  Available at:http://defend-us-in-battle.blogspot.com/2011/07/passage-of-time.html (Accessed:12/02/2012).

Presentation Feedback

Strengths:

1. The slides where visual.
2. I could be able to speak ellequent
3. The presentation is cohesive
4. References, incase for students that have an interest.
5. Conclusion

weaknesses:

1. Nervous
2. Not well explained
3. Not prepared well
4. eye to eye contact

My aims in the next up coming presentation;

In my last presentation, i found it a little bit hard for me to speak eloquent and to keep eye to eye contact with the audience and even started stammering which i do not used to do. both i now am looking forward to make am perfect in my next presentation.