Перевести текст,только не дословно comprehensive schools. royal assent was given on 22 november, 1976, to the bill to require local education authorities to have regard, in all their duties relating to secondary education, that such education should be provided in schools that admitted pupils without reference to ability or aptitude and to empower 1 the secretary of state to call the proposals to complete reorganization in cases where he felt progress or further progress was necessary. but most of the 2 comprehensive schools which exist today were started before secondary reorganization. they were introduced more than fourty years ago, and now 75% of all secondary schools are comprehensive. pupils go to them automatically 3 regardless of intelligence. however, some comprehensives and many secondary schools do not have the full range of academic courses for six-formers. pupils can transfer either to a grammar school or to a six-form college to get the courses they want. a comprehensive school is a school for all pupils of secondary school age in a school district. these schools cover, in fact, all the work done in grammar, modern and technical schools. they offer a wide range of general and vocational subjects. they tend to be large: more than a quarter have over 1,000 pupils and nearly half of them have more than 800. much is done in england for assistance to the development of a fully comprehensive system of education. the word “comprehensive” expresses not only the idea that the schools in question take all the children of a given area, without selection, but also that they should offer a wider range of courses than any one of the traditional types of school. for this reason they are usually bigger than the traditional types. some of the comprehensive schools are simply country secondary schools, some are large purpose built comprehensives on new housing estates, others are housed in older buildings often some distance apart. if a council decides on comprehensive schools, there is no selection by examination and all pupils go on from primary school to the comprehensive school in their area. many of these schools preserve the а, в, с relationship among the children, but the children are allowed to change streams according to their progress. most, but not all of these schools have some kind of selection inside the school. the children make a choice of subjects they want to study. most of the schools are mixed. the comprehensive system is considered by many to be a fair one, offering wider opportunities for many more pupils and giving the 4 slower pupils a better chance of catching up. secretary of state – зд. министр науки и просвещения comprehensive school – средняя общеобразовательная школа regardless of intelligence – независимо от уровня умственных большие специально построенные the slower pupils – отстающие ученики