Different educations between UK and China

As the impact of different culture and tradition, the education system in west countries almost differs from it in east countries. However, they also have some similarities. This article will take the British education system and Chinese education system for examples.
Firstly, the obvious one similarity between the education systems in the UK and China is the pre-school or pre-preparatory education stage. Both the UK and China has two types of schools which are independent and the stage systems, many children start their education at the age of three or four at a nursery school or in the nursery class at a primary school.
Although this similarity, there are more differences between these two countries as following aspects.
Both the UK and China has two types school which are independent and stage system, but in UK, the stage system for this stage of study is for fee and the independent school for charging. However, it differs from China; it is charged in both types of school.
Secondly, the stages of the education are different, for example, in the UK, there are major four phases of education for people in UK which are Primary education, Lower secondary education, upper secondary education and Higher and further education. However, there are major four stages which are Primary school, junior, senior and tertiary. There are no extra educations for Chinese student before they enter College or University.
First of all, the Primary education which have two stages, people from age 6 to 7 will enter to the key stage 1 and those whose ages from 7 to 11 will enter to the stage 2.However,in China, generally, people from age 7 to 11 will take the same course in primary school which lasts for 6 years.
Thirdly, In the UK, after primary school, people will enter to the Secondary school and all UK secondary school will teach pupils at least until the age of sixteen and prepare them for GCSEs and equivalents. On the contrary, in China, People will be required to enter the middle school (junior) for 3 years.
Fourthly, students may legally leave school and start work at the age of sixteen after secondary education. However, most students study A-levels or equipment qualifications as sixth-form students in a school, sixth-form college or College of father education. In contrast, most students will continue to study in high school which is preparing for their university, and some of them choose to study the secondary school which is ready for working.
After that ,students in UK normally have to take the foundation courses before they enter the university, however, there is no any foundation courses for Chinese students before they enter the university of colleges.