V. Decide whether the following statements are true or false:

1. Further education has traditionally been characterized by full-time vocational courses for those who leave school at the age of 16. 2. Further education includes vocational education, non-vocational education, recreational evening classes, and adult education. 3. Most further education establishments are neither maintained nor aided from public funds, so the tuition fees are moderate.4. Some students aren’t paid different awards and scholarships to help them cover tuition fees.5. For the unemployed there are two forms of training schemes: employment training for people who have been out of work for a long time and Youth Training schemes for school-leavers who cannot find a job.6. Adult education includes courses of vocational education for people over 30. 7. It was in 1973 that Extension courses were first provided by Oxford University. 8. In London there is the National Institute of Adult Education which serves as a center of information, research, publication, cooperation and consultation for adult education.9. In 1973 the Technician Education Council was set up for developing a unified system of courses of secondary education.10. After completing senior cour which leads in most cases to a Master’s degree in Arts, Science or Education.11. After completing junior courses, which demands two more years, one gets the Higher National Diploma (HND) approaching the standard of a university pass degree. 12. In 1965, colleges of education acquired university status and since 1980 they have gradually merged with other universities and polytechnics. 13. Undergraduate courses normally take three years of full – time study which leads in most cases to a Master’s degree in Arts, Science or Education. 14. Students have three terms of about ten weeks in each year. At the end of each term, students take final examinations. 15. In Scotland "Master" is used for a first degree. 16. There are various postgraduate one or two-year research courses leading to a degree of Bachelor of Philosophy.17. Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) is awarded for some original research in Arts or Sciences on completion of a three-year-period of work and а thesis. 18. The second level includes a Doctor of Science degree, Doctor of Divinity degree, Doctor of Civil Law degree, Doctor of Laws degree, Doctor of Letters/Literature degree, and Doctor of Medicine degree depending on the field of study of a postgraduate student.19. Students of law, architecture and some other professions can not take qualifications awarded by their own professional bodies instead of degrees.20. Uniformity of standards between universities is promoted by the practice of employing outside examiners for all examinations. 21. The general pattern of teaching is similar throughout the UK - a combination of lectures, small group seminars or tutorials with practical classes where necessary. 22. Only 50% of the student population goes on to secondary education.23. Most universities require two Bs and one С (ВВС) grades.24. The students are given a personal interview and then the institutes decide which applicants they want. 25. But parents with lower incomes are expected to make a contribution. 26. “Redbrick” universities are the oldest, the most prestigious and privileged universities in the United Kingdom.27. There are about 40 colleges in Oxford and 30 in Cambridge .28. The college system at Oxbridge is unlike that at any other university in Britain. 29. Only Oxford is a self-governing collegiate residential university, subjected to no external control except that of Parliament.30. Convocation consists of all doctors and masters who are active in the University, in all about 1 000. 31. The Chancellor (the head of the department) is elected for life. 32. The chief academic and administrative officer is the Vice Chancellor who is responsible for the running of the University.33. Each college is a self-governing independent body within the University.34. Each Master is a tutor in his/her own subject to the undergraduates who are studying it. 35. The tutor directs the student's reading, advises him/her what lectures to attend and keeps an eye on his/her progress. 36. Attendance of lectures is compulsory. 37. Admissions to Oxford and Cambridge are controlled by the Colleges. The Colleges currently have about 20 candidates for every one place, so the competition is fierce.38. Medieval Scottish Universities are Glasgow, Edinburgh, St. Andrews and Aberdeen, all founded in the twentieth centuries.39. These universities were created with strong links with the ancient universities of America, and followed their longer and broader course of studies. 40. “Oxbridge” and “Camford” universities are also headed by the Chancellor and Vice-Chancellor, but they are not entirely self-governing as their Councils include representatives of outside bodies.41. Redbrick universities are divided into faculties, the number and type differing from university to university. 42. Each college consists of a number of departments, dealing with separate subjects.43. The Head of the department is usually Reader. 44. Civic universities have always placed emphasis on technology of the industries of their regions. 45. “Plate-glass” universities were mostly established in the 1960s. 46. Most of them took the names of the countries they were located in: East Anglia, Essex, and New university of Ulster and so on. 47. Like Oxbridge, they are non- residential, and some of them are collegiate, e.g., the University of East Anglia.48. Polytechnics, formerly Colleges of Advanced Technology differ from universities in the main purpose: their orientation was predominantly vocational. 49. Until 1988, polytechnics were administered by the Universities Funding Council (UFC). 50. In addition to these five categories of universities, there are a large number of special higher education institutions in the realm of the performing and visual arts. 51. There are four leading colleges: the Royal Academy of Music, the Royal College of Music, Trinity College of Music and the Royal Northern College of Music.52. There is also a highly successful Open University, which provides every person in the UK with the opportunity to study for a degree, without leaving his or her home. 53. It was initiated in 1963 by Harold Wilson, the then Prime Minister, but opened in 1971. 54. It is a residential university, which provides different courses using a combination of TV and Radio broadcasts, correspondence (distance) courses, personal tuition, summer schools, and a network of viewing and listening centers.55. Its fees are very high.56 Each student of the Open University gets help and support of his/her tutor/counselor with whom he meets and corresponds regularly and whom he can telephone in case of any difficulty.57. There are meetings at which students get to know each other forming “self-help” groups.58. These groups meet in the university to discuss assignments. 59. The standards of the Open University degrees are not the same as those of other universities. 60. The degrees are awarded on a system of credits for each course completed.