Okay, educationally speaking, think Harry Potter. I'm going to assume that you don't mean Harriet Jones to be educated in public school (i.e., private/independent school), because this changes a bit if you do.
At 13, you have the Common Entrance exams, which get you into Grammar School or a comp(rehensive). I didn't take them because I went to public school and did scholarship exams instead.
At 16, you have the real-world equivalent of OWLs, which were called O-levels until the mid 80s and GCSEs afterwards. These are somewhere around 9 subjects, and I'm sure there's an excellent wikipedia page on them. After these, you can legally leave school.
At 18, you have A-levels, and there are three of them for most people. There are no core subjects, and you can take what you like. Back in the time period we're talking about, universities would have been more selective about what you could take to get into, say, Oxford's PPE (Politics, Philosophy & Economics), which is the primo politico degree. Say a language (French, Latin), English and then something else (Politics if the school offered it, History, Geography, that sort of liberal art thing).
After that, there were S-levels, I think, which were what you needed to get into Oxbridge. I don't know very much about these, because they'd fallen out of usage by my time (*waves stick*).
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At 13, you have the Common Entrance exams, which get you into Grammar School or a comp(rehensive). I didn't take them because I went to public school and did scholarship exams instead.
At 16, you have the real-world equivalent of OWLs, which were called O-levels until the mid 80s and GCSEs afterwards. These are somewhere around 9 subjects, and I'm sure there's an excellent wikipedia page on them. After these, you can legally leave school.
At 18, you have A-levels, and there are three of them for most people. There are no core subjects, and you can take what you like. Back in the time period we're talking about, universities would have been more selective about what you could take to get into, say, Oxford's PPE (Politics, Philosophy & Economics), which is the primo politico degree. Say a language (French, Latin), English and then something else (Politics if the school offered it, History, Geography, that sort of liberal art thing).
After that, there were S-levels, I think, which were what you needed to get into Oxbridge. I don't know very much about these, because they'd fallen out of usage by my time (*waves stick*).
Okay, questions on this part?