I. Comprehension questions:

1. What has further education been characterized by? 2. Where do students enroll each year? 3. What does further education include? 4. How are most further education establishments maintained or aided? 5. How are FE courses shaped? 6. What is a sandwich course? 7. What is characteristic of block release courses? 8. What is characteristic of day release courses? 9. What is the difference between day release courses and block release courses? 10. Are there many business courses? What are they? 11. What can you say about secretarial courses? 12. What forms of training schemes for the unemployed do you know? 13. What does adult education include? 14. When were Extension courses provided first? 15. What can you say about the staff of Extra- mural Departments? 16. What are the main functions of the National Institute of Adult Education in London? 17. What was set up in 1973? 18. What can you say about junior and senior levels of FE courses? 19. What courses do universities and colleges of higher education offer? 20. What leads to a Bachelor degree in Arts, Science or Education? 21. What can you say about undergraduates and the curriculum for them? 22. When do students take their collections? 23. What does the course of study result in? 24. What degree is used as the first one in Scotland? 25. Are there various postgraduate courses? 26. What is Doctor of Philosophy awarded for? 27. What do we call higher doctorate? 28. What degrees does the second level include? 29. Is the general pattern of teaching similar throughout Britain? What does it consist of? 30. What do you think are the major obstacles in providing further education for those who leave school at 16? 31. When do the students apply to the universities? 32. What are the students given? 33. What influences the university’s decision? 34. Why do over 90% of full-time students receive grants? 35. What are parents with higher income expected to make? 36. What system has been introduced now? 37. What categories do universities fall into? 38. What are the oldest, the most prestigious and privileged universities in the United Kingdom? When were they founded? 39. How many colleges are there in Oxford and Cambridge? 40. What control are both universities subjected to? 41. What can you say about governing bodies of Cambridge and Oxford? 42. Who is responsible for the running of the university? 43. Who is known as proctors? Who governs each college? 44. What is the system of teaching based on? What does the tutor direct? 45. What can you say about lectures at the university? 46. What are the colleges responsible for? 47. What are Medieval Scottish Universities? 48. When were they founded? 49. How were these universities created? 50. What do the Scottish universities provide? 51. When were “Redbrick “(“civic”) universities founded? 52. What are they granted now? 53. Who heads these universities? 54. What are Redbrick universities divided into? 55. What does each faculty consist of? 56. How is teaching organized? 57. Who is the Head of the department? 58. Who is Reader? 59. What is the main teaching grade throughout the university? 60. What have civic universities always placed emphasis on? 61. When were “Plate-glass” universities established? 62. Why are they called so? 63. What do their courses aim? 64. What other courses do they offer? 65. What can you say about the orientation of Polytechnics? 66. What courses do they offer? 67. What is the cost of education in Polytechnics? 68. Were they administered by local authorities? 69. What are four leading conservatories in the UK? 70. What is the most famous Art College? 71. What does the Open University provide every person in Britain with? 72. Who initiated it? 73. When was it opened? 74. What courses does it provide? 75. Are its fees very high? 76. What do students have to write? 77. Who helps each student? 78. What do students form? 79. Are the standards of the Open University degree the same as those of other universities? 80. How long does it take to get each degree? 81. Is studying in the Open University popular in the UK?