11. Group work. A Jigsaw Activity 12. Divide the text into four parts, read and answer the questions When does a British school -leaver apply to a University? What is the Curriculum Vitae for? How much does one pay for University education? -What are redbrick Universities? HIGHER EDUCATION IN GREAT BRITAIN 1. At 18 a school-leaver gets a General Education Certificate at an O level. Then he writes off letters to different Universities. If you feel like studying philosophy, apply to Oxford and Cambridge. If you wish to specialize in nature science, apply to of the new Universities. In June you go for an interview to the University you have chosen. The lectures there will look at your curriculum vitae (c.v.), which registers the results of your school final examinations. If your results suit the University they will take you and you will become a fresher. For over 600 years England had two Universities only Oxford and Cambridge. The cost of education at these universities was so high that only the sons of rich people could go there. In 1827 in London a University College was founded. In 1836 it turned into the University of London. 2. Many great changes in the University had been seen later years. Medical Schools, Bedford College for women, College of Science and Technology and many other schools and colleges became a part of the University of London. It provided lecture rooms, muse-ums, libraries, workshops for teaching and research. The famous people who studied and taught at the University of London are Thomas Huxley, Michael Faraday, Lord Macmillan. Oxford and Cambridge differ from the rest of the Universities; each is a group of colleges. The government of both the university and the colleges is in the hands of the lecturers. The terms are short: three of eight week in a year. Each student meets his tutor often to see how he is getting on. Oxford and Cambridge have one tutor for one student. Because of their age, traditions, historical buildings, the prestige of Oxford and Cam- bridge is very high; these universities take the cleverest school-leavers. For nearly fifty years after the founding of London University no more Universities were opened. Later new Universities appeared in large industrial centres to teach mainly scientific and technological subjects. The first new University was built in Britain in 1967. The University of Sussex, at Brighton is probably the best known. It is a modern univer-sity built of red brick. 4. Among professionals the new universities have provided an opportunity for wide experiment in teaching methods. Instead of the traditional one-subject school they all experiment with many-subject schools. At Sussex all students take a course in philosophy and history. The teachers use the same dinning room with the students. At most of the new universities the students themselves look after discipline. No more new universities will be built in Britain. In future old universities will be rebuilt and colleges of technology will be made into universities. An old university can take more than 3,000 students by adding laboratories. A completely new university for 3,000 students costs 15 million.