Образование в Беларуси на английском языке

 

     2. Here are some people's opinions. Make notes on what you'd say in response to them, using the phrases given below. If you disagree, explain your reasons for disagreeing.

1) “If you want to go to university, you usually apply during your last year at school, when you are 17.”

2) “University students usually live away from home.”

3) “tudents get a grant or a loan from the government to study.”

4) ’Some students don’t want to go straight from school to university, so they take a year out to work’.

5) ’The commercials on TV are usually more entertaining than the programmes.’

6) ’Shops should all be open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.’

7) ’There's no point in buying expensive clothes. It's a waste of money.’

8)’Clothes in bright colours like red and yellow are becoming fashionable.’

9)’People spend too much money buying things they don't really need.’

10)’Everything is cheaper in a supermarket than in a street market.’ 

That's true. And I also think that . . .

I agree with you. And I also think that

That's a good point. Don’t you also think that…?

I see what you mean, but … 

Well, personally I think that ...

I don't really agree because…

I don't quite agree because…

That's an interesting point of view, but I think... 

     3. Working with another student, take turns to respond to each opinion. Make sure you say more than just a few words in response. 

LISTENING 

     1. Work in small groups and discuss the following questions.

     a) At what age do you think you should ...

     - stop listening to parents and teachers and do what you feel is right?

     - be financially independent?

     - leave the family home?

     b) Have you ever taken your parents' advice and regretted it?

     c) Do you intend to follow in your parents' footsteps? 

     2. Listen to parents talking about their eighteen-year-old daughter. Decide which of the following sentences best summarises their feelings about daughter's plans for the future.

     a) They want their daughter to go to university but they're worried about supporting her financially.

     b) They think she should get a university degree before she tries to become a pop singer.

     c) They think that it would be a waste of time for her to go to university because she really wants to be a pop singer. 

     3. Listen again to the conversation and complete these extracts, using the phrases in the box.

 

a) Now she reckons she's going to … in the pop world.

b) That's true, but once she gets a …, she'll find it more difficult to go back to college.

c) At least if it doesn't work out she'll have a qualification … .

d) We're just hoping that she'll get it … and then come to her senses and go back to her studies.

e) ... we can't afford to pay for her to live in London, so it's … to make it work. 

     4. Work with a partner. Decide whether you agree or disagree with the following statements. Do you think your parents would have the same opinion?

a) If you want to go travelling, it's best to get it out of your system before you start a career. Afterwards it's too late.

b) Once young people have had a taste of freedom, it's difficult for them to go back and live with their parents.

c) The more qualifications you've got behind you, the better your chances are of getting a good job.

d) You don't need musical talent to make it in the pop world these days: just good looks and a good manager.

e) Whether or not you succeed in life is up to you. Nobody else can help. 

WRITING

     1. Using the following diagram explain the hierarchy and links in the system of higher education in writing.  

     

     Allocation of the HEI students along the forms of study 

     Public higher educational institution 

      54.3% Extra-mural students

     

     45.6% Full-time students 
0.1% Shifting students 

     Non public higher educational institutions

                                                    

     35.5% Extra-mural

     student 

     0.8% Shifting

                          students 

     63.7% Full-time students 
 
 

     Part B. The Belarusian State Economic University 

USEFUL VOCABULARY  

academic а – академический, academic year - учебный год

accomodation n - жилье

admission n - прием , admit v - принимать

assistance n - помощь

apply (to) v - обращаться

appoint v - назначать

approach n - подход

award v - награждать

education by correspondence - заочное обучение

council n - совет

term n - семестр

extra-curricular а - внеаудиторный

diploma n - диплом

to enter the University - поступить в университет

faculty n - факультет, Syn. school

found v - основывать, создавать

grant v - предоставлять

the humanities n -гуманитарные науки

junior а - младший

lecture n - лекция

lecturer n - лектор, преподаватель

lodging n- жилье

obtain v- получать, достигать

philosophy n- философия

postgraduate (student) n - аспирант

recreation n - отдых

research n - научно-исследовательская работа

scientist n - ученый

scientific а - научный

self-governing а - самоуправляющийся

senior а - старший

session n - 1) сессия, 2) учебный год

subject n – предмет

support v - поддерживать

thesis n - диссертация

enrolment n – зачисление в вуз

train v - обучать

tutor n - преподаватель (в университетах)

tutorial system - система прикрепления студентов к преподавателям-консультантам

READING 

     1. Read the text and sum up what the text says about Belarusian State Economic University. 

     The Belarus State Economic University was formed in 1992 on the basis of the Belarussian State Institute of the National Economy which was founded in 1933. It is the biggest educational establishment in Belarus training specialists in the field of economics and management, finance and banking, accounting and statistics, commerce, international economic relations, economic policies, business communications techniques, marketing, logistics, economic law, economics and management of tourism, economics of labor and nature use, advertising activities, and price formations. The graduates of the university work in all the sectors of the national economy both in the country and abroad. The University management is done on the principles of democracy and collective leadership. Its structure includes a university administration, a university council, a scholarly-methodological council, an education-methodological council on part-time education, councils of schools, branches and institutes. The University is headed by the Rector. The university’s main activities are headed by the First Deputy Rector, the Deputy Rector in charge of research, the Deputies Rector in charge of curriculum and the Deputy Rector in charge of administrative work. The BSEU has a well developed infrastructure which provides training and research within twelve schools:

• School of Management. The students major in: State Management, Enterprise Economics and Management (with specialization in managing agro-industrial complex companies and labour economics), Economic Cybernetics, Economic Informatics, Environmental Economics.
• School of Accounting and Economics. It incorporates six departments: Accounting, Analysis and Auditing in Industry; Accounting, Analysis and Auditing in Agro-Industrial Complex; Accounting, Analysis and Auditing in Sectors of the National Economy; Accounting, Analysis and Auditing in Commerce; Statistics; Higher Mathematics.
• School of Finance and Banking. Full time students of the School have the following majors: finance and credit (specialization in finance, banking, insurance, finance and credit in foreign economic activities, taxation); accounting, analysis and auditing (specialization in accounting, analysis and auditing in banks).
• School of International Economic Relations. It trains specialists majoring in: world economics and international economic relations (specialization in economics and management of foreign economic activities); world economics (specialization in management of foreign economic activities).
• School of Trade Management. It trains specialists within five specializations: commercial activities in the market of consumer goods; commercial activities in the foreign market; commercial activities in the market of services (catering services); commercial activities and foodstuff merchandise expertise; commercial activities and manufactured merchandise expertise.
• School of Marketing. It incorporates five departments: Marketing; Industrial Marketing and Communications; Logistics and Pricing of the Main Industrial Branches; Technology of the Main Industrial Branches; Security of Life Activity.
• School of Law. It consists of four departments: Civil Law and International Law, Jurisprudence, Law History and Theory, State Law Disciplines.
• School of International Business Communications. It incorporates seven departments and provides teaching to students of all departments, including international students of all levels of study. The faculty gives classes in modern Belarusian and Russian as second languages, reads a series of special courses. The School does research in the field of motivation increase among international students within the course of academic writing and speaking; teaching international undergraduate students (non-linguists) and graduate students to use the written language for specific purposes.
• Institute of Social Liberal Education. It consists of 6 departments: Philosophy, Political Science, Economic History, Economic Sociology, Pedagogics and Psychology.
• School of Pre-University Training. The main goals of the school are: the organization and coordination of professional orientation, profound specialized and economic training, additional learning, repeated and parallel learning, refreshing of knowledge and additional training, profound expanded education and self-education of students, personification of teaching process, unification of traditional and new progressive methods of training applicants for the university level on a scientific methodological basis.
• Higher School of Tourism. It trains specialists majoring in Enterprise

     Economics and Management (specializations ”Tourism Economics and Management” and ”Hotel and Restaurant Catering Economics and Management”).

• Higher School of Business and Management offers professional training within the following majors: Enterprise Economics and Management, World Economics, Finance and Credit, Accounting, Analysis and Auditing, Marketing. It trains masters of economics, specialists in the field of economics and administration on the basis of higher education (the second higher education); specialists in economics on the basis of general secondary or technical education; raising of professional skills in accordance with the latest achievements in science and technology.

     In addition, BSEU incorporates Bobruisk and Pinsk branches, Consulting Center for Commerce, Institute for Updating Qualification and Retraining Personnel, and a Specialized School of Psychological and Teaching Updating. The university has a Research Centre, an International Relations Division, and a Publishing Centre. The university library is one of the best supplied and equipped in the country.

     The training of students is done on a multi-level basis. The degrees pursued are those of bachelors, specialists and masters. The graduates can also continue their education in a post-graduate school called aspirantura (full-time or part-time), where they pursue a Ph.D. degree, and in a post-doctorate school called doctorantura to pursue a post-doctorate degree (doctor habile).

     The Belarus State Economic University has 59 departments (of which 39 are graduating ones). This year 5571 students have been enrolled to our University, 39% of whom are internal students and 61% are external ones. The total number of students (both full-time and part-time) amounts to 27,000. Among them are international students from 23 countries. The students are trained in 20 majors and 48 specializations. There are over 1,300 faculty members. Almost half of them hold advanced degrees and scholarly titles, including 100 doctors habil (Dr. hab.) and full professors and 610 with a Ph.D. degree.

     Training specialists with higher scholarly qualification is done at the graduate school (12 majors of doctoral programs) and post-doctoral courses (6 majors), both full-time and part-time. Under the auspices of the BSEU there function 5 councils on defending dissertations, with 154 successful defenses in place over the recent five years.

     The priorities in the organization of teaching are thorough training, a creative approach to mastering knowledge, as well as making conditions for the realization of individual abilities. The focus is made on providing the systematic level of studies, making connections among the subjects taught, establishing interdisciplinary courses, developing independent work skills, implementing active forms of the teaching process, and effective methods of testing. The university is proud of its technical equipment. It has about 40 computer classrooms, training bookkeeping centres, as well as automated PC-based training offices for specialists in management, finance, banking, and commerce. Lecture halls have slide projectors and other required technical equipment. Classes are fully equipped for language study. Satellite TV, Internet and local computing network are widely used in the teaching process. Acquiring new techniques of teaching and exchanging experience in teaching combined with doing research on topical issues of economic development are made possible due to fruitful contacts with companies, agencies, and related universities, including those beyond Belarus. Annually about 3000 students graduate from the University with specialisation in economics, every third student graduates with distinction. The university continues to upgrade the quality of education and aims at high standards of contemporary university, able to meet the challenges of domestic and global economic development.

     The university occupies 9 buildings. The conditions for study are good. Numerous tutorial rooms, lecture halls, modern laboratories, computer and foreign language classes, audio- and video-facilities, a big library, several spacious reading halls and canteens are at the students' disposal. The tuition is free, but those who failed to get the necessary score during their entrance tests, have to pay for their study. Many students get hostel accommodation and most are given state grants.