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TEXT 2D. SOME FACTS ABOUT BRITISH UNIVERSITIES

Learn some more material about British universities and answer the questions

given below.

The largest and the most famous British universities are educational federations

uniting institutes, schools and colleges run by one administration. Provincial

universities have no elements of federation. All the students and the teaching staff are

concentrated in one place. These universities are more democratic.

The head of the university is the so-called Chancellor, he is elected by the

scientific workers of the university. The Chancellor as a rule is a person holding an

outstanding position in the country. He visits the university only twice a year on some

great occasion. The actual head of the university is the vice-chancellor. He is elected

from a number of authorities or teachers of the university for 2 - 3 years.

Universities are financed through a special government committee. The money

comes from different sources:

 state subsidies (about 70%),

 from the students who pay for education (about 12%),

 subsidies from local authorities (3 - 4%),

 private investments and the university’s own means.

The tuition fee is very high in Britain, higher than in other countries. It differs

from university to university. The tuition, lodging and food in London University,

Oxford and Cambridge costs about 1000 pounds per term , in provincial universities -

700/800 pounds.

The course of study at university lasts three or four years. But lazy students may

stay there for five years. They get no degree or diploma but a certificate, so they

don’t graduate from university but finish it.

1. What’s the peculiar feature of provincial universities?

2. Who stands at the head of university?

3. How are universities financed?