Universities

British Universitiesare not open to everyone. To get a place, you normally apply in your last year at school; before you have taken your A level.

The number of students on a particular course (for example, Economics at Cardiff University) is strictly limited. The system does not allow students to follow full-time courses in a casual way, having a job or living in another town as they study. Students are quite closely monitored and have to see their teachers regularly.

The negative side of the system was that compared with other countries, a rather small percentage of British school-leavers actually went on to University.

About half of British students go away to University, rather attend the one closest to home. This is an expensive thing to do, the governmentused to give grants (money to live on during studies), whereas now students have to borrow money or get their parents to pay. But still many students find that combining study and family life is impossible.

Further Education

There are those who leave school at age 16 and go straight into a job, but later on realize that they need higher qualifications. Quite a lot of people in their middle -20s or older come back into education at nearby (FE) college and take a one-year Access course; this gets them into University, where they are often more successful than younger students because they are more serious and focused.

III. Read the text once again and mark the sentences T (true), F (false), or DS (doesn’t say).

1.	The first schools were set up for the boys by the Churches.
2.	Prince Charles and Princess Diana were the only people who could study in Eton.
3.	Some aristocratic girls were taught byprivate teachers at home.
4.	By the middle of the 18^th century the pressure for universal education decreased.
5.	The government used to give grants to the students to live on during studies.
6.	The younger students are more successful than the elder students.

PART II

I. Read Parts I and II of the texts and put the words in each column. Use your dictionary to help you.

Universities	Types of higher education	Faculties	The fields of national economy	Conveniences
Oxford University
Food technology, teacher-training colleges, heating, state grant, medicine, arts, philosophy, law, music, Oxford University, on-line education, Cambridge University, colleges of advanced technology, technical college, economics, engineering, Eton University, natural sciences, agriculture, commerce, education and theology, ventilation, refrigeration engineering.

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A Look at History	\|	II. Read the text (Part II) and mark the sentences T (true), F (false), or DS (doesn’t say).

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