II. Reading

A. The role of Higher Education is very essential in the modern world since, no doubt, it provides a person with better career opportunities and ensures him or her “to be less likely unemployed and more likely to be in graduate jobs”. Before you read the text try to predict the content of it, think in terms of the following issues and express your personal point of view:

1. high-tech

2. the impact of education

3. educational qualifications

4. trainee scheme

5. inter-personal skills

6. skills in communication

7. eagerness to learn

8. top-level jobs

9. team-working

10. knowledge economy

B. Choose the appropriate words or word combinations and fill in the gaps:

(team-working, inter-personal skills, educational qualifications, top level jobs, hi-tech, communication, "knowledge economy", education, eagerness to learn, trainee schemes)

1. The idea that we live in a ________ _______has strengthened the impact of _______. 2. Employers are becoming less interested in ________ _________. 3. Nowadays firms want recruits with skills that formal education does not necessarily bring: "high touch" rather than ______. 4. They want graduates with _____ _______, awareness, attitude, ________ __ ______: are they rounded individuals? 5. Marks & Spencer whittles down the 6,000 annual applicants for its 200 graduate _______ _____ entirely through tests of literacy, numeracy, reasoning and personality. 6. What these ____ _____ _____did require were skills in _______and ________, and personal attributes such as “good appearance”, “good manners”, “character” and “presence”.

C. Read the text and match the highlighted words and word combinations with the definitions:

1. career; 2. to steer; 3. to employ (an employer, an employee); 4. to persevere 5. to recruit (recruitment); 6. to decline; 7. to retail (retailer, retailing); 8. attribute; 9. to move up; 10. to be worth of; 11. real estate; 12. to sell (sale, sales); 13. expense (at the expense of smth); 14. applicant (to apply) ; 15. advertisement (to advertise).

___ A. high quality, excellence; value, price

___ B. to direct the movements or the course of smth, or smb

___ C. a property, quality, a feature

___ D. to grow smaller, diminish

___ E. to engage or make use of the services of (a person) in return for money, to hire

___ F. a path or progress through life or history

___ G. exchange of goods, property or services for an agreed sum of money or credit

___ H. to sell or be sold in small quantities to consumers

___ I. to be persistent, to withstand difficulties

___ J. property in the form of land or buildings; the business of buying and selling this

___ K. to find new people to join a company or an organization

___ L. to work one’s way up the career ladder

___M. someone who has applied for a job, a place on a course, etc.

___N. a picture, sign, etc. that is used to make a product or service known and persuade people to buy it

___O. the money that you spend on something; doing the first thing harms the second thing

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