Read Text 9B and answer the following questions.

1. What are the types of higher educational institutions?

2. What courses do colleges of higher education offer?

3. What is a degree?

4. Is there any difference between the terms “a student” and “an undergraduate”?

5. What is a tutorial?

6. Can everyone who gets A-levels go to university?

7. What are the highest and lowest grades?

8. Why do most British students prefer studying away from home?

9. Do British students have to pay for their study at colleges and universities?

10. How are students awarded grants?

11. Why are more students dropping out, failing to finish their courses?

12. Why is the British government very enthusiastic about in-house training schemes?

13. Are there any forms of training schemes for those who are unemployed?

14. Can students in Britain choose which university they go to?

Explain the meaning of the following words and expressions and reproduce the context in which they are used.

To offer a degree course, to get a qualification, to pass final exams, to be awarded a degree, to study for a degree, a tutorial, a lecturer, competition, fierce, to apply to a university, to take an A-level, to be independent, to earn money, to get a grant, to borrow, to pay back, rent, to study full-time, to release, a training scheme, employment, to be unemployed.

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