Further Education

Many people decide to leave school at the age of sixteen and go to a Further Education (FE) College. Here most of the courses are linked to some kind of practical vocational training, for example in engineering, typing, cooking or hairdressing. Full-time courses are provided in universities, polytechnics, Scottish central institutions, colleges of higher (HE) and further (FE) education, and technical, art and agricultural colleges.

Today there are over fifty universities in Britain, compared with only seventeen in 1945. They fall into four broad categories: the ancient English foundations, the ancient Scottish ones, the 'redbrick' universities, and the 'plate-glass' ones. They are all private institutions, receiving direct grants from central government.

Oxford and Cambridge, founded in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries respectively, are easily the most famous of Britain's universities. Today 'Oxbridge', as the two together are known, educate less than one tenth of Britain's total university student population. But they continue to attract many of the best brains.

There is also a highly successful Open University, which provides every person in Britain with the opportunity to study for a degree, without leaving their home. It is particularly designed for adults who regret missed opportunities earlier. It conducts learning through correspondence, radio and television, and also through local study centers.

Ex I. Remember synonyms to these words:

1) to teach - to instruct - to coach - to train - to educate;

2) teacher - instructor - tutor - coach - trainer;

3) to enjoy - to take pleasure in - to take delight in - to derive pleasure from - to like-to fancy;

4) make up - to collect - to get together - to constitute - to form - to compose;

5) to create - to originate - to bring into being - to call into existence - to make.

Ex II. Match the word with the corresponding definition:

1) compulsory a) training that teaches you the skills you need to do a

particular job;

2) vocational b) a system of education in which pupils of different abilities

go to the same school or are taught in the same class;

3) comprehensive c) something that is compulsory must be done because it is the

law or because someone in authority orders you to;

4) curriculum d) an official organization or a local government department

which controls public affairs, provides public services;

5) background e) an official plan that is intended to help people in some way;

6) scheme f) the events in the past that explain why something has

happened in the way that it has;

7) to site g) to persuade someone to do something;

8) to convince h) to make a judgment about a person or situation after

thinking carefully about it;

9) to assess i) be placed or built in a particular place;

10) authority j) the subjects that are taught by a school, college etc. or the

things that are studied in a particular subject.

Ex III. Find in the text the English for:

початкова освіта; широкий вибір предметів; обов'язкова освіта; підвищувати освітній рівень; підтримувати стару систему граматичних шкіл; реагувати на потреби та інтереси своїх учнів; вища освіта; підготовка до тестів; забезпечувати школу грошима, книжками і т. п.; оцінювати класну та домашню роботу учнів; професійне навчання; обдаровані діти; най здібніші діти; трирічний курс навчання; проводити навчання поштою (через листування).