Кейс-задача 17

QUALITY OF HIGHER EDUCATION

1. Quality of higher education has stopped being only educational problem but has become one of the main social and economic aspects, which determine the position of the country on the global arena. The level of specialists’ education, their professional competencies as well as creative activity has been acquiring a special priority. The country where there is the better level of specialists’ education will win the competition in the sphere of technique and the economic competition at the global market as well.

2. Information society gave birth to knowledge-based economy, which demands higher level of basic skills and a new content of the professional activity. The official colleges and universities will be only one of the majorities of different sources of information. Internet resources, different models of distant education and other technologies about which we don’t even suspect now will be used in providing a person with valuable information.

3. The new paradigm of education leads to changes in pedagogical conscience. For hundreds of years teachers strived to supply young generations with a scope of knowledge but nowadays they try to develop in them a constant desire in modernizing knowledge, improvement professional skills by means of self-education and self-perfection.

4. Traditional approaches to determining quality of education have become out-dated. Modern society can’t be satisfied with transition of the results of humanity’s historical development in a fixed form. The main aim of higher education is to provide a priority of spiritual personality’s development over its learning of acquired social experience. This idea and the principles of creation of the united educational area became the cornerstones of such international educational documents as UNESCO Reform and Development of Higher Education, European Commission White Paper “Teaching and learning: towards the learning society”, documents of Bologna Agreement and others.

1. Определите, является ли утверждение:

It’s more important for modern students to get more and more information than to develop skills of self-education.

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• ложным

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2. Определите, является ли утверждение:

Nowadays the world community needs new criteria to define the quality of higher education.

• истинным

• ложным

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3. Определите, является ли утверждение:

Political reforms lead to the changes in relations between the additional and alternative education.

• истинным

• ложным

• в тексте нет информации

4. Определите, является ли утверждение:

The country wins its position on the world market due to the quality of higher education.

• истинным

• ложным

• в тексте нет информации

5. Какой части текста соответствует следующая информация:

Modern education is tightly connected with the development of the information technologies.

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6. Какой части текста соответствует следующая информация:

The personal self-development has priority over the acquiring of the social experience in the modern world.

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7. Ответьте на вопрос:

What is the main aim of teaching in the 21^st century?

• To provide information to the students using modern technologies.

• To introduce information technologies into the process of education.

• To teach the students get useful information using various sources.

• To influence the personality of the students and make them change faster.

8. Определите идею текста:

• Information technologies make the system of higher education more complicated.

• Modern society provides new standards to the development of higher education.

• Traditional approaches to modernizing higher education are based on the necessity of the personal growth of the modern specialists.

• Higher education has got extra priority in the sphere of economics.