British University life

I. Answer the questions.

1. When was the Academy established?

2. What is the number of students trained in the Academy?

3. What kind of pedagogical staff work at the Academy?

4. What subjects are taught in the Academy?

5. Can you tell about the curriculum of this higher educational establishment?

6. How many terms are there in the academic year?

7. What degrees do graduates receive?

II. True or false?

1. The Academy consists of five institutes.

2. Students can study either at the full-time department or at the extra-mural one.

3. Final examinations are taken by students at the end of every term.

4. Graduates receive degrees after the defence of diploma papers.

III. Read the following text:

Three quarters of students attending full-time British Universities are men and only one quarter are women. Half of them study arts subjects such as history, law, languages or economics, the others study so-called applied sciences: medicine, technology or agriculture.

London University, the largest in Great Britain, includes internal and external students, the latter coming to London only to sit for their examinations. The University of London provides teaching chiefly by means of lectures, which are attended mainly by day students. The colleges of Oxford and Cambridge, however, are essentially residential institutions and they mainly use tutorial methods which brings the tutor into close and personal contact with the student.

Education of University standard is also given in other institutions such as colleges of technology and agriculture, which prepare their students for degrees or diplomas in their own fields.

The three terms into which the British University year is divided are roughly eight to ten weeks. Each term is full of activity, and the holidays between the terms — a month at Christmas, a month at Easter, are mainly periods of intellectual digestion and private study. Terminal examinations take place at the end of each term, final examinations — at the end of the course of studies.

B.A. or B.Sc. stands for Bachelor of Arts, or of Science, the first degree. M.A. or M.Sc. denotes Master of Arts, or of Science. One can become a B.A. after three years of hard study, and an M.A. at the end of five years.

IV. Speak on the Ukrainian and British systems of Higher education according to the plan:

1) the number of men and women at the higher educational establishments

2) the number and length of terms in the academic year

3) the subjects, that are taught

4) the tutorial system

5) the examinations

6) the accommodation

7) the problem of paid education.

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