A letter to the editor

Thomas Hall Nottingham

I find it incomprehensible that some universities wish to charge £10,000 a year in tuition fees. I am a first-year student at college, and I dread the £9,000 debt I know 1 will have. How anyone could contemplate paying £30.000 for a degree - whether it be from the best university or not - is beyond me. But it universities wish to charge this much, let them. Anyone who can afford to attend one is either foolish or has Parents with money to burn. I applied to both Warwick and Nottingham, but am now happy not to have gone to either.

Текст 11 D Kelly

Keele University

What a brilliant idea by some top universities to become private institutions. Like public schools, they would no longer be eligible for, or indeed require, government grants since they would be self-sufficient. This would release a substantial amount of money that could be distributed to those universities that remain in the public sector.

Dr Lolo Davies

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Most foreign nationals scorn those Americans who make no effort to learn the local tongue. The American practice of living in self-imposed ghettos - where only English is spoken - is particularly irksome. "We call them 'the lazy Americans'." says a Mexican auto executive. "They can't read the local papers and don't want to They are out of touch with the local business scene. Yet Detroit lets them make the decisions".

The American predilection for English is hardly discouraged in the country's schools. At least 20 percent of the nation's high schools teach no foreign languages at all.

Still, there are many students who want to learn foreign languages. Some study Spanish so they can understand the country's growing. Hispanic population; others want to study the language of their immigrant ancestors, another reason for an interest in learning a foreign language is the tight job market. "It you have two qualified people applying lor a job at an international firm and only one speaks a foreign language, it's obvious who will be chosen," says Blanche Hamilton, who runs the foreign-language program in Atlanta's public schools.

Упражнение IV. Переведите тексты 13, 14 по одному предложению с повторениями ("Аргументы и факты", 2003, № 10):

Текст 13

В США число негосударственных вузов в 2 раза больше, чем государственных, и степень доверия к ним выше, чем > нас Однако обучается в них только четверть всех студентов страны. В Японии число обучающихся к негосударственных вузах существенно больше, чем в государственных Но эти вузы принадлежат обычно крупнейшим корпорациям, которые готовят специалистов для себя.

(государственные вузы (США) - public universities,

негосударственные - private universities)