Difference between education in England and Ukraine British education is structured in such a way that by the time of entering the university, the student already has all the necessary knowledge and skills to study in a higher education program. According to the generally accepted statement, the British education system resembles a pyramid, where the base is the junior grades, in which children are given basic knowledge across the entire range of subjects, the middle is high school, in which a small set of compulsory subjects is combined with subjects of choice, that is, subjects of the most interesting for the student, and the top is pre-university preparation, which includes in-depth study of only a small number of subjects that will become a student's specialization at the university. This is the main difference between the British education system and the Ukrainian one, which can be represented as an inverted pyramid: the top of the pyramid with the minimum set of subjects studied, which corresponds to elementary school, is at the bottom, and its base, with the maximum set of subjects in high school, is at the top. Another important difference between the two approaches to teaching is the emphasis on independent work, which is the basis of British education, and is often ignored in Ukrainian educational institutions, where students receive information exclusively in the classroom from a teacher or within the framework of lecture courses at universities. In British schools, they strive to give the maximum of practical skills from the very elementary grades. Children begin to study natural sciences from the age of 7-8, but, of course, at the initial stage - without theory or even without formulas. However, even at this age, students conduct experiments, receive chemicals and know about their practical use. by Vova Khimchinskyi