Учебно-методическое пособие для студентов 1, 2 курса очной формы обучения средне специальных учебных заведений

THE OPEN UNIVERSITY

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   The Open University was founded in 1964 by the Labor Government for those people, for some reason, had not a chance to enter any of the universities, especially those above normal student age. It takes both men and women at the age 21 and over. At the beginning of the 1990s some 150000 students followed the Open University courses.
   
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   No formal academic qualifications are necessary for entry to these courses, but the standards of its degrees are the same as those of other universities. The first course began in 1971, and in a decade the number of undergraduates reached 65,000. It’s a non-residential¹ university. In teaching the university uses a combination of television and radio broadcasts, correspondence courses and summer school, together with a network of viewing and listening centres².
   
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   Lecturers present their courses on one of the BBC’s television channels and by radio. They have also produced a whole library of short course-books, which anyone can buy at bookshops. Students write papers based on the courses and discuss them with tutors at meetings or by correspondence once a month.
   
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   Degrees are awarded on the basis of creadit³ gained by success at each stage of the course. Six credits are necessary for a BA degree⁴ and eight credits for a BA Honors degree. The time of staying on at the Open University is unlimited.
   

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   … because students write papers.
   
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   … because the time of staying on at the Open University is unlimited.
   
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   … on the basis of credits gained by success at each stage of the course.
   

Вариант 5

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   Every college is governed by a dean.
   
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   A college is a group of buildings forming a square with a green lawn in the centre.
   
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   Mary (queen) had been living quietly in Suffolk (Саффолк – графство) while England was governed by a group of Protestant nobles acting as regents for the boy king.
   
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   The dominating factor in Cambridge is its well-known University, a center of education and learning, closely connected with the life and thought of Great Britain.
   

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   In order to enter the university, one must first apply to a college and become a member of the university through a college.
   
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   Students studying literature, for example, and those trained for physics may belong to one and the same college.
   
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   The fact is that one is to be a member of a college in order to be a member of the University.
   
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   There are many libraries at Cambridge, and in one of them among the earliest books by Shakespeare and other great writers one may see an early description of Russia by an Englishman on diplomatic service there (in 1591) and a Russian reading book of the 17-th century.