- •Travelling
- •Travel Broadens the Mind
- •Why Do People Love to Travel?
- •Places to Visit
- •10 Міст, які потрібно побачити хоча б раз у житті
- •1. Стамбул, Туреччина
- •Why should we use public transportation?
- •Is Turkey a safe place to travel?
- •Organizing For the Holidays Organizing For the Holidays . . . Less Stress . . . More Fun
- •1. Why did the writer make the trip?
- •City Bus History
- •Поради туристам при подорожі автобусом по Європі
- •The History and Invention of the Airplane
- •My First Flight
- •A romantic resort
- •Biking Down Under
- •Ecotourism
- •Guilt-Free Holidays
- •Inca Cable Car
- •In pairs, name three of the most important historical sites/ buildings in your country. What do you know about them? Discuss.
- •Dreaming of a Green Vacation
- •In the dictionary find synonyms for the following words and expressions.
- •Insert the Present Simple or Present Continuous.
- •Insert the Present Perfect or Past Simple.
- •Insert the Past Indefinite or Past Perfect.
- •Insert the Past Continuous or Past Perfect.
- •Insert the Present Perfect or the Present Perfect Continuous.
- •Insert the Present Continuous or the Present Perfect Continuous.
- •Insert the Past Simple, Past Perfect, or Past Perfect Continuous.
- •Insert the Past Continuous, Past Perfect, or Past Perfect Continuous.
- •Insert the Present Simple or Future Indefinite.
- •Throughout history, key discoveries have changed the course of medical science. We look at four historic medical breakthroughs.
- •Asymbol of medicine, a triumph of simplicity
- •1. In the first paragraph, the writer mentions "hi-tech diagnostic equipment" in order to
- •Examination Fever
- •Say No to Death
- •Україна – перша у Східній Європі за кількістю віл-інфікованих.
- •At the dentist’s
- •General Dental Practice
- •Help me, doctor, I'm too wealthy
- •1. Qigong is perfect for those who
- •Are You on the Top of the World
- •Евтаназія: вбивство чи милосердя? а може, вбивство з милосердя?
- •Exercise 3. Translate into English, using the Passive or Active Voice.
- •1. Questions and negations of the verb have are formed with do/does or did.
- •2. We can also use have something done to say that something unpleasant happened to somebody.
- •3. We can use the verb get instead of the verb have only in informal conversation.
- •Value of Education
- •Value of Education
- •Investing in education is the single most effective way of reducing poverty.
- •Makes People Healthier
- •Increases Income
- •Promotes Girls' and Women's Rights
- •Is literacy important?
- •Opportunity, Equality of Education
- •Distance Learning
- •What are mooCs?
- •The System of Education in the United Kingdom
- •Education
- •British or American?
- •Education in Ukraine
- •Choosing a university
- •6 Important Criteria to Choose the Best University
- •1. Programme of studies
- •2. Official language(s)
- •3. Duration of your studies
- •4. Central or more suburban areas?
- •5. Tuition fees/financial aspects
- •6. Weather/climate
- •A little advice
- •Is the situation with regard to university education the same in your country as it is in the uk?
- •Universities
- •In your country is the university system the same or different to the one described in this article? Do you agree more with the opinion of Theodore Roosevelt or of Sydney Harris? Why?
- •Video ‘Knowledge is Great’
- •What makes a global Top 10 university?
- •Immigration points
- •How I Got My First-Class Degree
- •In small groups, discuss the following questions.
- •Beating exam stress
- •Подолання стресу під час сесії. Поради психолога.
- •Grammar focus reported speech (indirect speech) in English
- •Reported statements
- •1.1. The introductory sentence in the Simple Present.
- •1.2. The introductory sentence in the Simple Past.
- •Backshift of Tenses
- •Types of introductory sentences
- •Reported commands/requests
- •Student Dilemma
- •Євген Нищук. Монологи.
What makes a global Top 10 university?
By Sean Coughlan
BBC News Education Correspondent
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is in first place in the latest league table of the world's best universities.
It's the third year in a row (2014) that the US university, famous for its science and technology research, has been top of the QS World University Rankings. (Note: QS World University Rankings are annual university rankings published by British Quacquarelli Symonds (QS)).
Another science-based university, Imperial College London, is in joint second place along with Cambridge University.
Behind these in fourth place is Harvard University, the world's wealthiest university. And two more UK universities share joint fifth place, University College London and Oxford.
But US universities are still in the majority, taking 11 of the places in the Top- 20.
Even though some university leaders might be skeptical about such rankings, they will all be sharply aware of their significance. No university website is complete without the claim to be in the top 100 for something or other.
How to be top
But what is perhaps more surprising is that they are a relatively recent arrival on the higher education landscape.
How does a university get to the top of the rankings? And why does such a small group of institutions seem to have an iron grip on the top places?
The biggest single factor in the QS rankings is academic reputation. This is calculated by surveying more than 60,000 academics around the world about their opinion on the merits of institutions other than their own.
The next biggest factor - "citations per faculty" - looks at the strength of research in universities, calculated in terms of the number of times research work is cited by other researchers.
The ratio of academic staff to students represents another big chunk of how the rankings are decided.
Big brands
These three elements, reputation, research citations and staff ratios, account for four-fifths of the rankings. And there are also marks for being more international, in terms of academic staff and students.
As a template for success, it means that the winners are likely to be large, prestigious, research-intensive universities, with strong science departments and lots of international collaborations.
Immigration points
The overall effect of a decade of such league tables has been beneficial, Mr Sowter argues. It has made universities take a closer look at themselves to see how they compared with rivals.
There always were "unwritten league tables, based on stereotypes," he says, so having some more transparency allows a more open debate.
"Some fixate on it too closely," he says. Improving their ranking position has been written into the mission statements of some universities.
It has also taken on a quasi-official status. Denmark's immigration system gives extra points to graduate applicants according to how high their university is ranked.
The pressure to get up the ladder has also pushed some universities into trying to bend the rules, says Mr Sowter, with incorrect data being submitted.
The Times Higher Education World University Rankings, ahead of its annual rankings next month, has been even more specific about what constitutes a top-200 university.
"You need serious money, it is essential to pay the salaries to attract and retain the leading scholars and to build the facilities needed," says THE rankings editor, Phil Baty.
Multi-ranking
Regardless of how they are calculated, there is a seductive simplicity to rankings.
An attempt to create a different type of university comparison has been launched this year by the European Union.
This puts less emphasis on reputation and allows students to select their own criteria to make comparisons.
The idea is that a student wanting to find an undergraduate arts course isn't really going to learn much from rankings driven by international science research projects.
There could be another entirely different way of comparing universities on the horizon.
It's not difficult to see the limitations of university rankings. They measure the attributes of the university rather than its students. They produce a list dominated by certain of type of institution. Small, specialist, arts-based colleges are going to suffer regardless of their quality.
Those that focus on teaching rather than research will not be as recognized. The emphasis on reputation will reinforce the advantage of those that are already famous. And the top tier of these global rankings is exclusively filled with English-speaking universities.
But such lists still exert an undeniable, attention-grabbing appeal.
TOP-10 Universities in the World
Based on QS World University Rankings
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University |
Country |
Position in 2014/15 |
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
US |
1 |
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University of Cambridge |
UK |
2= |
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Imperial College London |
UK |
2= |
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Harvard University |
US |
4 |
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UCL (University College London) |
UK |
5= |
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University of Oxford |
UK |
5= |
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Stanford University |
US |
7 |
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Californian Institute of Technology (Caltech) |
US |
8 |
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Princeton University |
US |
9 |
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Yale University |
Us |
10 |
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Find the list of TOP 10 Universities of Ukraine. Give short info of Top 5. In your opinion, why these universities are top?
What is rank of your university among national ones? In groups, brainstorm ideas how to improve the rank of your university. Prepare a project.
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Translate into English
Серед випускників Кембриджа, заснованого у 1209 році "вигнанцями" з Оксфорда, 61 Нобелівський лауреат - це також найвищий показник серед усіх університетів світу. Викладачі Кембриджа мають 52 Нобелівські премії.
Кембридж складається з центральної адміністрації та 31 коледжа. Серед них три приймають лише жінок (Нью-Хол, Ньюнам, Люсі Кавендіш). Крім того ще шість коледжів приймають лише студентів, що, хоча отримують свій перший ступінь (бакалавр), є старшими за 21 рік, або тих, хто отримують другий ступінь (магістр) або здійснюють дослідження.
Кембридж - не тільки кращий за Гарвард за якістю освіти, але й дешевший. Якщо магістратура у Гарварді коштує 38-40 тисяч доларів, то у Кембриджі - 14-16 тисяч. Утім, такою є вартість навчання лише для громадян Великої Британії та США відповідно. Для іноземних студентів вартість навчання у цих закладах є набагато більшою.
Чи не найвідоміший університет світу - Оксфорд - на п’ятому місці. Крім трьох лідерів рейтингу, Оксфорд поступився ще й американському Гарварду.
Загалом укладачі рейтингу оцінювали університети за такими критеріями: популярність ВУЗу в академічних колах, частота згадок у пресі та цитування викладачів, популярність серед роботодавців, строки та кількість працевлаштованих випускників, частка іноземних студентів та викладачів-іноземців серед загальної кількості слухачів.
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Listen to Lisa and Howard – two members of Morton Associates, talking about the requirements for candidates applying for an internship at UNESCO. Make notes under the following headings:
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Qualifications |
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Interests |
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Languages |
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Work experience |
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Computer skills |
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Duration of Internship |
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Listen to the part of the conversation and complete the following extracts. Use a maximum of two words for each gap.
Lisa: It’s ______ that candidates are doing a postgraduate degree…
Howard: What about languages?
Lisa: They _____an excellent knowledge of one of the working languages of the organization…
Howard: Right, so that’s_____.
Howard: How about work experience?
Lisa: They don’t mention that specifically, but it’s obviously _____ to have some work experience…
Howard: You haven’t mentioned computer skills.
Lisa: Well, candidates _____ to be able to use office-related software.
Howard: Anything else?
Lisa: No, but we’ll be _____ some evidence of a special cultural or scientific interest.
Study methods
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Look at the study methods in the list. For which of the tasks (1-10) is each method best suited?
Which methods do you use in your studies?
Revising
Cramming
Highlighting
Note-taking
Summarizing
Proof-reading
Editing
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You will read an article by a student who graduated from the university with a First- class degree. Before you read, discuss with your group mates:
What part do the following play in motivating people to excel in education?
desire for professional success
desire for personal achievement
pressure from family/friends? employers
Rank the following according to how necessary you think they are in order to do well at university, what else can you add to this chart?
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Discipline
Competitive spirit
Understanding what is expected of you
Organizational skills
Perseverance
Intelligence
Morale