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Elena shares her opinion from the UK side

Zhenya, thanks for your interesting question!
I decided to ask my husband (our grandson is living in another town, so I can’t ask him right now) and then to make my own enquires.
The results are: my husband said that in England we say “pupil” and “form” when it concerns primary and secondary schools. Then I opened the site of Arlington Church of England Primary School in Leeds (where I worked for a month last autumn) and studied it as well the sites of Warwick Road Junior Infant and Nursery School in Batley, Batley Grammar School (founded in 1612) and St John Fisher Catholic High School (where our grandson studied for 2 years). And after studying all these sites I can say that in primary schools the word “pupil” is used only, in grammar and high schools – either “student” or “pupil”. But there is a formal language on the sites. In everyday English – mainly it is “pupil” in regard to secondary schools as well.
The word “faculty” is often used in connection with British Universities. For example on the home page of University in Leeds there is a sign “Faculties listings” where all the faculties are listed. But on the site of University in London the word “Course” is used. In the University of Cambridge they use “Schools, Faculties and Departments”. It was more difficult to find in Oxford, but I did. In “Divisions” on their home page (the University of Oxford, I mean) there are:
Classics, Faculty of
Drawing and Fine Art, Ruskin School of
History of Art Department
Music Faculty of
etc.

So it is possible to find everything! It is a language changing permanently as our life does, you know! About “form” I will write a bit later, it’s interesting as well.