Education Quiz
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What is education?
Education is the process of facilitating learning, or the acquisition of skills, knowledge, values, beliefs, and habits.
Quiz
- The Open University is based in which large town?
- Which university is often referred to as LSE?
- Established in 1986, what does the acronym NCVQ stand for?
- Which group established in 1994, is sometimes perceived as representing the 'best' universities in the UK?
- Which year saw the last O-Level exams in the UK?
- In 1801, the first modern what was designed by James Pillans, a high school teacher in Scotland?
- In which North American city is McGill University?
- What were introduced in 1614 by John Napier as a means of simplifying calculations?
- One of the highest in the world, what is the compulsory school starting age in Finland?
- Which constituent college of Oxford University, one of the first two women's colleges in Oxford, did Margaret Thatcher attend?
- What name is given in the UK to a fee-charging independent primary school that caters for children up to the age of about 13?
- The Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills is abbreviated to what?
- Konstanstin Stanislavsky developed the method school for which activity?
- What is the acronym for the UK organisation whose main role is to operate the application process for British universities?
- Old Wykehamists are former pupils of which college?
- In 1899 what was the school leaving age raised to?
- In which country would you find the worlds oldest university?
- Henry VI founded Eton College in 1440 and which college in Cambridge University in 1441?
- Which American university is abbreviated to MIT?
- If alumni is the plural noun for a group of male graduates, what is name given to one male graduate?
- In 1498, what was Wells School in Somerset probably the first to use?
- Which public school in Godalming, Surrey, are pupils still referred to as Carthusians?
- In 1969, Hatfield, Sheffield and Sunderland were the first three colleges to be designated what?
- In 1548, Thomas Vicary wrote the first English textbook on what subject?
- Which mathematical symbol was invented in 1557 by Welsh mathematician Robert Recorde?
Answers:
- Milton Keynes
- London School of Economics (London School of Economics and Political Science)
- National Council for Vocational Qualifications
- Russell Group
- 1987
- Blackboard
- Montreal, Canada
- Logarithms
- Seven
- Somerville College
- A preparatory school or prep school
- Ofsted
- Acting
- UCAS
- Winchester College
- Twelve
- Morocco (Fez, founded 859)
- King's College
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Alumnus (Note: An alumna is one female graduate)
- Printed schoolbooks
- Charterhouse School
- Polytechnics
- Anatomy
- Equals sign