Watch the first two minutes of the video and fill in the gaps.

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 550.

What does OECD stand for?

You are going to watch a video about Education funding gap in Europe. Now look at the following words which you will hear in the video and anticipate what the video is going to be about.

3. Discuss the following issues:

Ø The idea of privatizing education and the right to education in different countries

Ø Policy of privatizing education and the impact of the development of private education on inequalities

Ø The issues of public school teachers teaching in private schools and inequalities being created by privatization.

Europe's higher education is in a tight squeeze – between students fighting 1. ­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­________ cuts and fee increases, and the 2.__________ costs for teachers, new facilities and 3.___________.

The European Union ranks below the OECD average in both public and private 4.__________ of higher learning, and part of the budget 5. ___________ in the European Parliament is the fight for more money for education.

But there is also a trend toward so-called 6. ___________: an increasing number of EU member states are raising tuition and fees. The OECD has long called for more research 7.___________ with the private sector in Europe, as is done in the US.

Critics say such a solution means 8. ___________ academia to market forces – a 9.____________ of education, which, they say, should be a right for all, not just the 10.__________ few.