Task 3. Put the verbs in brackets in the right grammar forms (active or passive) and translate the sentences.
1. Students … (become) reliant on alternative sources for funding next decade.
2. Employers … (have to start) playing a bigger funding role in the nearest future.
3. We constantly hear businesses complain about graduates without the right skills sets; its time business … (put) its money where its mouth is.
4. If we … (need) to rely on industry funding for university courses we may lose even more control of our curriculum.
5. Distinctiveness may become not just about what universities … (do) but how they do it.
6. Some institutions may … (force) to concentrate and specialize in order to effectively distinguish themselves and compete.
7. Alternative institutions and open educational spaces … (provide) a different view to traditional centres of learning.
8. Recently the Internet … (create) not only a new form of knowledge, but a radical new form of access to it.
9. Participation shouldn't be a numbers game: one of the most important issues for the future … (be) understanding that widening participation shouldn't be about getting a certain percentage into higher education.
10. Anyone with an Internet connection can … (get) an incredible education essentially for free, from the point of view of accessing lectures and supplementary material.
11. Nowadays global higher education …. (become) more driven by market dynamics rather than academic incentives.
12. If governments … (continue) to move away from an “HE as public good” approach, the sector … (become) to become more marketised and less research focused. Research may become “the luxury of the few”.
13. One of the tasks for universities in the future … (be) to proudly speak out for and in the language of humanness and quite frankly inefficiency.
14. In ten years we … (see) a huge increase in diversity of universities, and probably an ever growing demand for higher education across the world - both for teaching and research.
Task 4. Complete the text with the verbs: download, look up, argue, include, learn, enhance, help.
Education on the Internet
In today’s society, the internet has become a very important learning tool. It is used for day to day activities, such as a place to … (1) research, a method of getting in touch with friends and family, and somewhere to go to find information about almost anything imaginable. The most popular uses of the internet … (2) entertainment and education. Many people … (3) that the internet should be used for educational purposes only. The internet is very useful when it comes to research. There are many search engines that can … (4) a person find a related topic. There are online catalogs, encyclopedias, dictionaries, and thesauruses to help … (5) a person’s learning capabilities. Other ways the internet is useful is that it can be used now as a classroom. Technology has made it possible for a person to … (6) a visual image of a teacher teaching a class online. Many programs now have courses that can be studied over the World Wide Web. These courses are very helpful to students who … (7) easily from outside of the regular classroom atmosphere. It is also possible to go online with other people and actually be able to see them. This can be useful for faculty meetings or other conferences that would benefit the public.
Task 5. Match the phrasal verbs in italics in the sentences to the definitions a) – j) below.
| 1. The Principal handed in his resignation. 2. The students turned up late for class. 3. The teacher got her ideas across very well. 4. We worked out the answers very easily. 5. He stayed on at university another year. 6. I got down to work as soon as I arrived. 7. A taxi picked them up and took them to college. 8. She kept up with the other students. 9. We carried out a survey on staff attitudes. 10. He went over the exercise with his students. | a) arrived b) collected c) managed to understand d) stayed level with e) performed f) examined g) to a person in charge h) suffered i) started j) remained k) communicated l) looked |