Translation Exercises

19. Translate the following piece of legal writing into Ukrainian. Enter the new topical vocabulary into your vocabulary books.

Student Attendance

In accordance with Colorado state law, it is the obligation of every parent to ensure that every child under his/her care and supervision who has attained the school age and is a registered student receives adequate education and training and attends school.

The Board of Education believes that attendance is a key factor in student achievement, however, when absences do occur they will be treated as either excused or unexcused.

Excused absences are as follows:

a. absences approved by the principal or his/her designee.

b. absences due to temporary illness or injury

c. absences for an extended period of time due to physical, mental, or emotional disabilities.

d. absences due to being in the custody of the court or law enforcement authorities.

If an absence does not fall into one of the above categories, it will be considered unexcused.

Each school shall establish a system of monitoring individual unexcused absences. If a student is absent without a signed parental excuse or if the student leaves school or class without permission of the teacher or administrator in charge, the student shall be considered truant. A "habitual truant" shall be defined as a student who has attained the age of seven years, is a registered student, and has four unexcused absences from class or school in any one month or ten unexcused absences from class or school during any school year.

When a student becomes habitually truant, the school shall require a meeting between the student's parent and appropriate school personnel to review and evaluate the reasons for the student being habitually truant. Such meeting shall be arranged by appropriate administrative personnel and held no later than 10 school days after the student's fourth unexcused absence in a month or 10^th unexcused absence in a year.

In order to reduce the incidents of truancy, each school shall notify parent(s) in writing at the beginning of each school year, and upon any enrollment during the school year, of their obligation to ensure that all children of compulsory attendance age attend school. Parent(s) shall be required to acknowledge in writing awareness of his/her obligations and to furnish the school with a telephone numbers or other means of contacting them during the school day.

Unit 3 Education Part 2 University Lead-in

20. Areport resulting from a survey of British universities runs that the current trends in the education sector suggest that in the near future "Students will be more like customers…". Based on this projection, let's ponder whether this is a positive development. Which sounds better: being a student or a customer? Share opinions around the class and substantiate your reasoning.

21. Now we are on the threshold of a global economy and information society. Do you feel involved in the processes as a student? Do you have the possibility to explore and exploit the global market of higher education? What are the obstacles?

22. Listen to a recording and, as you listen, give titles to the 11 paragraphs you hear. Share your notes when the tape stops.

23. The information in the listening text dates back to March, 1999, and will now be outdated. Nevertheless, listen to the last paragraph again, now being read at a slower pace, and jot down the essence of the four future alternatives for universities. When you are finished, give your reasoning as to which of the four strategies would look most attractive to you as a student.

Think about:

those which receive grants and those that don't; the increasing gaps between the former and the latter; the possibility to benefit from more than one school; the opportunity to use pooled resources; a facility to design a unique university course, now unavailable due to the dissociation of universities; money economy; uniformity or gradation of universally accepted standards; stagnation and inflexibility of the education sector.