- •Рекомендовано кафедрой «Иностранные языки» бгту
- •Предисловие
- •Unit 1 universities and further education
- •Vocabulary
- •Read and translate the text. Education in the 21st Century
- •2. Answer the following questions.
- •Unit 2 academic degrees and postgraduate studies
- •Vocabulary
- •Read and translate the text.
- •Why undertake postgraduate study?
- •I Really Enjoy My Subject
- •I Need It to Pursue My Chosen Career
- •This Will Give Me More Time to Decide
- •Research the area of work you wish to enter to identify how potential employers would view applicants with postgraduate qualifications and answer the following questions.
- •The text below provides you with extensive information to think about and to help you find the right answer. Career Prospects for Post-Graduates
- •Unit 3 research supervision
- •Vocabulary
- •Below you will find different opinions of postgraduate students on supervision.
- •Discuss with your groupmates the issue of a good supervisor. The following questions will help you.
- •Unit 4 how to retell a scientific article
- •1) Clichés, introducing the heading and the author.
- •2) Clichés, introducing the leading theme of the original paper.
- •3) Clichés, drawing the reader's attention to the major points of the contents.
- •4) Clichés, introducing secondary information.
- •5) Clichés, forming a conclusion to which the reader's attention is drawn.
- •6) Clichés, expressing personal evaluation of the information presented by the author.
- •1. Now read the text “Science: The Endless Resource” and study its sample summary. Science: the Endless Resource
- •Now read the example of the summary. Summary
- •Here is an example of the review of a book.
- •Study the examples below for ideas on what to include in a book review. Give the reasons why you think the books might be useful for readers Economic Concepts for the Social Sciences
- •Try to produce the summary of the text “Science” making use of the instructions given above. Science
- •Appendix 1 List of abbreviations most frequently used in scientific literature
- •Appendix 2 Математические знаки, символы, их чтение и значение
- •Научный редактор г.В. Царева Редактор издательства л.Н. Мажугина
Read and translate the text. Education in the 21st Century
Many countries consider education a major vehicle of social advancement. Training of highly qualified specialists, capable of solving the most complex problems of modern society is the main priority of higher education. Knowledge, science and culture open the prospects into the future for every person.
The system of higher and further education undergoes a process of great reforms. They are initiated to provide closer links between education and technological needs of industry. New goals are set to link higher education more directly to the economy, improve the quality of scientific research, provide educational and research institutions with modern technology and new laboratory facilities.
The need to make education more democratic and universal arises from the fact that our country is integrating with the European community. Issues such as environment, exchanges rate, and economic competition, public health, national security, poverty, population control, and human rights affect every country domestically as well as internationally. Under these circumstances attending to domestic needs requires understanding of national, cultural, and socio-economic boundaries.
The characteristic feature and the main trend in modern higher education is not only to check students’ knowledge but develop their abilities and creative thinking. Today’s scientific and technological progress demands of the university graduates to be prepared to deepen their knowledge individually and adapt themselves quickly to the changes in the branches of science or industry they have chosen as their speciality or research. In addition to offering programs based on traditional academic disciplines, higher education must develop problem-focused programs of study that are more practical than theoretical and are oriented around problems of the real world.
Of course, university education in Russia still faces a great variety of problems, connected with implementation of new disciplines, reorienting university policies and programs towards new goals. But if we want to prosper in the new environment of the 21st century, our universities must truly orient themselves around new goals. None of these goals will be achieved quickly and easily but the benefits of putting them in place will far exceed the efforts required.
2. Answer the following questions.
1. What is the role of education in modern society? Has it changed a lot with a course of time?
2. At the turn of the century higher and further education undergo great reforms. What are these reforms aimed at?
3. What are the distinguishing features and the main trends in higher and further education?
4. What does the need to make universities more democratic and internationally oriented arise from?
5. Why is it necessary to develop creative thinking? What are the ways of achieving this goal?
6. What difficulties do we face on the way of reforming the system of education?
7. Do you agree that reforming the system of education we shouldn’t forget our national interests and values in education? We must preserve all the achievements of the previous school not to destroy the whole system.