High school – higher school
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C. Make your own dialogue and compare the information contained in the dialogue with your present day life. Look at the British academic qualifications below. Are qualifications similar in your country? Use the helpful phrases given in italics.
B. Read the dialogue again and find out the facts about
ö the work of school careers advisers
ö the sources of income for the students
ö the value of education
ö the ways for the parents to contribute to their children's choice of future profession
WATCH OUT: translator's "false friends".
d. Look up the dictionary to find the difference between the word combinations high school and higher school. Match the words with their meaning.
| 1. | high school | A | Universities and colleges which provide education beyond high school. |
| 2. | higher school | B | In the UK except Scotland the term is used chiefly in names of grammar schools or independent fee-paying secondary schools, or for the lower years of a secondary school. |
| C | Universities or similar educational establishments, especially to degree level. | ||
| D | In the United States, it is a school for children usually aged between fourteen and eighteen. |
e. Fill in the blanks with high or higher.
1. It was an 18-year-old inner-city[29] kid who dropped out of … school.
2. An understanding of opportunity costs and tradeoffs is especially important to … school students when they are in grades 9 through 12.
3. Sooner or later … school students must make choices about what to do after the secondary school.
4. According to the UNESCO definition, any institution of higher learning which prepares specialists on the basis of a complete secondary education, regardless of the volume of knowledge or level of qualification it gives its students, is considered a … school.
5. The term “… school” includes universities, polytechnical and branch institutions (of engineering, agriculture, economics, medicine, law, pedagogy, art, and others), academies, and other institutions.
f. Make a sociological investigation of inequality in educational attainment[30]. What explains the persistence of class inequality in educational attainment? Cover the following points in your 3-minute Power Point presentations:
1. Social background and school continuation decisions.
2. Educational attainment and social mobility.
3. Gender-specific trends in the value of education and the emerging gender gap in college completion.
4. The growing female advantage in college completion.
5. The role of family background and academic achievement.
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