THE WELSH ASSEMBLY

CHANGES MADE  IN THE WELSH REFERENDUM 2011

  

According to Merriam-Webster dictionary(2012) the word ' referendum' means ' an event in which the people of a county, state, etc., vote for or against a law that deals with a specific issue : a public vote on a particular issue'.Changes were made after a referendum for the national assembly for wales after an election was held to have legislative powers which occurred on 03 March 2011.I was not aware that welsh now has its own government. The changes in the referendum  would allow the National 

Assembly for Wales and the Welsh Government to create laws in wales independently without negotiation between the government of UK and wales.

Great Britain. National Assembly for Wales (2011) Vote 2011-The Referendum  [Online] Available at: http://www.assemblywales.org/gethome/vote2011/get_involved-referendum.htm (Accessed: 30 October 2012).

Great Britain. Welsh Government Legislation - Welsh referendum 2011 [Online] Available at: http://wales.gov.uk/legislation/referendumpowers/;jsessionid=CA5012B53A25EDE7FDC766C69732D884?status=clegioosed&lang=en (Accessed :12 May 2011)

Merriam Webster learner Dictionary (2012)http://www.learnersdictionary.com/search/referendum (Accessed: 30 October 2012)

    

THE NEW GOVERNMENT

A New Government has emerged in Britain after a general election held on 6th of may 2010. since 1997, the labour party has been in power with tony blair then gordon brown as Prime Ministers.it is replaced by coalition between the two party;conservative and liberal democrats.

The New Prime Minister;David Cameron 43, is the leader of the conservative, he his the youngest for almost two decade,they won 36%of the votes. Since 1945, the conservative and the labour had been in power,the liberal demorcrats had never fomed  part of a  government until 2010, five days after the election,the conservative and liberal democrats formed a coalition.

In the British 650 seats represented the 650 seats district of the country during the election, due to a situation known as hung parliament where no major partys has a majority of the seat in the parliament.

 

 

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Education system in Nigeria and The UK

THE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM IN NIGERIA AND THE UK

THE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM IN NIGERIA

This is based on a 6-3-3-4 system which involved three level of institution learning process. the primary level the secondary level the tertiary level

 

 

6 years of primary schooling 3 years of junior secondary schooling 3 years of senior secondary schooling, and 4 years of university education, finally directing toward a bachelor's level degree in the majority of the subjects.

The annual term of school in Nigeria is ten months, and is sectioned into three ten- to twelve-week periods, each at the pre-primary, primary, junior, and senior secondary stages.

THE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM IN THE UK

This based on a 6-3-3-1-3 system.

School education:

Primary education may take the form of combined junior and

infant schools and therefore lasts for six years or a first stage

covering infant schools (two years) and a second stage covering

junior schools (four years). Secondary education covers schooling

from the age of eleven to the minimum school leaving age of

sixteen. Pupils follow a common curriculum leading to the GCSE

and VCSE. They may combine a number of GCSEs, VCSEs or a

combination of both. At some schools, pupils may stay on at a

school sixth form for a further two years when they sit for the

General Certificate of Education Advanced Level (GCE A Levels) or the General Certificate of Education

Advanced Subsidiary examinations (GCE AS examinations), or vocational courses leading usually to a

Vocational Certificate of Education Advanced Level/Vocational Certificate of Education Advanced Subsidiary

Level). Further education colleges also offer these courses

This similar to the Nigerian system but the tertiary is one here of college and three years for a normal regular BSc course

COMPARISON BETWEEN UK AND NIGERIA'S EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM

• In Nigeria, A 6-3-3-4 System is used, While IN UK a 6-3-3-1-3 system is used which is similar.
• They are have both 3terms in a session
• They also run a mixed education system, also same sex school e.g. boys only school
• Uniforms are used by student
• In both countries they private schools and government schools
• The age children start primary school is similar between 4-5 years

CONTRASTING BETWEEN UK AND NIGERIA'S EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM

• The UK Educational system make use of modern educational facilities regularly to teach while in Nigeria it hard to use it because the Educational System has just been introduced to the use of educational facilities
• The subject taught between the two countries are slightly different
• In Nigeria most government school strike for some reasons

·         The length of time to complete a university course in the UK is mostly 3-5 years with in Nigeria either 4, 5, 6 or 7 years depending on your course.

 

References

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 Maps of Africa (www.allafrica.com: 2011),

The European educational directory (www.euroeducation.net:2005)

 

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE UK

THE PEOPLE OF THE UK

The People of the UK are from England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. British people can also be English, Scottish, Welsh, or Irish barrow, M. (2011).

They are different people from various part of the world, who lives in the United Kingdom, they descend from several ethnic background of the world apart from the English people(British), this include Asia-India, china, Malaysia etc......south America- Brazil, Jamaica, etc.......... Africa- Somali, Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana, Senegal etc... In other words some people have recently forebear from other part of the United Kingdom, while some descended from recent immigrant, other European Union countries, and Commonwealth nations. These people come to the UK for various purposes such as migration, work, means of livelihood, education; most people living in Britain are Christian. British people are free to choose and follow their own religious beliefs. Although Christianity is the main religion, there are also large communities of Muslims, Sikhs, Hindus and Jews and smaller communities of Baha’is, Buddhists, Jain, and Zoroastrians.

 Immigration (2012)

The story of early Britain has traditionally been told in terms of waves of invaders displacing or annihilating their predecessors. Continuous  population does not preclude profound shifts in culture and identity. It is actually common to observe important cultural change, including adoption of completely new identities, with little or no biological change to a population. a lot of people has thought themselves as British since the time of Roman, but are not real British.

Reference

Barrow, M. (2011) 'The United kingdom of great Britain and northern Ireland' Project Britain Available at: http://projectbritain.com/britain/uk.htm (accessed: 10October 2012)

Immigration (2012) Available at: http://.telegraph.co.uk (accessed: 11October 2012)

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