Education in Great Britain. Бояринцева Е.И - 28 стр.

ties of Theology, thirteen of Arts, thirty-one of Medicine, ten of Sci-           b) Specialized institutes train specialists for one of the fields of
ence, etc.                                                                 culture or national economy.
       The University of London grants degrees to all who satisfy its             c) The development of new qualifications has made the external
examinations, with the exceptions of engineering and medical degrees       degree of the University of London less important.
(for which study at an approved institution is required). The London
external degree has been of great importance in the development of the     Text F. Read the text and do the tasks that follow
University system.
       Many of the new independent universities were at first university
                                                                                                   Letters from College
colleges (i.e. university institutions which could not award their own
degrees) and for them the University of London became the degree-           Dear John,
awarding body. The London external degree is very important to stu-                I meant to write you at once, but it took me rather long to get
dents in technical colleges and some teacher-training colleges, as well     used to College life. College is a very big place and at first I got lost
as for private students working on their own, away from educational         almost every time I left my room. Things are much easier now and I
centers.                                                                    hope you’ll look me up some day and let me walk you about. You
       The development of new qualifications (e.g. the new Diploma in       won’t be disappointed, I promise. Oh, I’m good at showing people
Technology) and increasing enrolments in regular university courses         about. I’ll say something like this:
have made the external degree less important. Speaking of somebody's               Our college was founded over two hundred years ago. On
qualifications and education background people usually say: I am a Civil    your right is the Library which was built about the same year the
Engineer, with a (BSc / MSc) degree from Edinburgh University, or: She      college was founded. (So you can easily imagine how it looks and
has a degree from London University in Politics and Economics.              smells inside!).The building on your left, which rather reminds me
                                                                            of Tudor Romanesque next to it is the new infirmary and so forth.
      Notes                                                                        The trouble with College is that they expect you to know such
      external degree – степень, присваиваемая заочно                       a lot of things you’ve never learnt. To be quite honest, I never knew
      enrolments – наборы студентов                                         I was so much behind the others. It’ll take me months of real hard
                                                                            work to catch up with the fellows!
TASKS                                                                              I made an awful mistake the very first day. Somebody men-
                                                                            tioned Maurice Maeterlinck, and I asked if he was a Freshman. That
      1. Find the English equivalents to the following                      joke has gone all over College.
                                                                                   Did ever you hear of Michelangelo?
     a) … был только органом, принимавшим экзамены и при-
                                                                                   I didn’t until the last week. He was a famous artist who lived
сваивавшим степени.
                                                                            in Italy in Middle Ages. Everybody in English knew about him and
     b) Лондонский университет присваивает степени всем, кто
                                                                            the whole class laughed because I thought he was an archangel. He
выдерживает экзамены, проводимые им.
                                                                            sounds like an archangel, doesn’t he? Now I know better. When
                                                                            people start talking about things I never heard of, I just keep quiet
      2. Point out what information is given in the text
                                                                            and look them up in the encyclopedia.
       a) The usual minimum course for the new Diploma in Technol-                 We’ve been studying hard all through the term. Now that the
ogy is three years for full-time students.                                  exams have started, it’s got worse. I’ve learned fifty-seven French

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