After watching the video answer the questions below?
Date: 2015-10-07; view: 636.
What does each speaker think about the following issues?
Watch the whole video again and do the following tasks.
a) While watching the video take notes of precise information as much as possible.
b) Using your notes complete the table below.
| Issues | Doris Pack, Chair of the Parliament's Culture and Education Committee and a member of the EPP Group | Lesley Wilson, General Secretary of the European University Association, representing higher education institutions in 47 countries | Barbara Ischinger, Director for Education and Skills at the OECD a forum of 34 industrialised nations |
| Students' tuition fee | |||
| Budget battle at the European parliament | |||
| Cutting the education funding | |||
| Privatization of education | |||
| universities and private funding | |||
| Web-based learning | |||
| Panacea for the problem of universities |
1. Should education be a right after all? Is it wrong to make students pay tuition?
2. Do you think government is giving enough of this priority? Are they changing education?
3. What about the budget battle at the European parliament? Is there any chance that there could be more money for education?
4. Is financial crisis a justification to cut education funding?
5. Is there a danger here that we are selling out privatization of education?
6. Don't you think there is a danger that some universities are becoming more reliant on private funding?
7. What about the web-based learning? Do you think it seems panacea for the problem we are facing now?
8. Isn't this making some bricks in modern institutions obsolete?
9. How much do you think that traffic will bear as far as raising tuition fees?
7. Mini-Debate:Group A stronglybelieve that Education is a public good, and it's the responsibility of the government to provide quality education for all; group B stronglybelieve that a privatisation of education is a good idea.
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