1.Read and translate the text:

There are two major tasks set before any institution providing tertiary education in our country: to train highly qualified professionals and to carry on research in various branches of science and engineering.

Every student participates in research in this or that way. Thus, all students are involved in research directly related to curricular activity comprising laboratory exercises, course works, graduating projects, seminars and individual tasks. Doing laboratory exercises according to the timetable in specialized laboratories students are given an opportunity to apply their knowledge and display initiative. While preparing their reviews and oral presentations in humanitarian subjects they learn how to deal with large numbers of theoretical sources, the activity that is considered to be a kind of research work. Preparing their course works under the guidance of professors and experienced teachers, junior students learn the basics of research.

Close contacts of institutions of higher learning with research institutions and businesses introduce students to the latest achievements in both science and engineering. Due to this, students are involved in research dealing with urgent problems of modern economic development of the region and the country as a whole. This helps them to learn modern research methodology used in their particular fields and handle the most sophisticated equipment.

2.Remember the words:

basics - основи

carry out (on) - виконувати, проводити

collaboration - співпраця

curricular activity - програмна діяльність

distinguish - відзначати, виділяти

examination board - екзаменаційна комісія

extracurricular activity - позааудиторна діяльність

guide - керувати

involve - залучати

course work - курсова робота

graduation project - дипломна робота

review - огляд, реферат

schedule/ timetable - розклад

submit - подавати на розгляд

supervisor - науковий керівник

3.Match the following phrases with their definitions:

an integral part

extracurricular activity

course paper

examination board

to set the task

a wide scale

to meet standards

to promote development

to decide that someone should try and achieve something;

the work that is written and submitted by students to crown their studying of a certain course;

forming a necessary part of something;

to correspond to established norms;

to help something develop and be successful;

it isn’t a part of the course that a student is doing;

a group of people who are checking students’ knowledge of the subject at the examination;

a large size or high level of something that is happening or being done.